Kansas City Royals\u00a0(29-43, fifth in the AL Central) vs.\u00a0Washington Nationals\u00a0(37-35, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington; Monday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Mitch Spence (0-0); Nationals:\u00a0Andrew Alvarez\u00a0(1-0, 3.70 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 26 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Nationals -142, Royals +119; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Kansas City Royals on Monday to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington has a 37-35 record overall and a 14-21 record at home. The Nationals have gone 14-7 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kansas City has gone 12-22 in road games and 29-43 overall. The Royals have the seventh-ranked team batting average in the AL at .242.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS:\u00a0James Wood\u00a0has 20 home runs, 58 walks and 46 RBI while hitting .281 for the Nationals.\u00a0Daylen Lile\u00a0is 12 for 38 with a double, two triples, a home run and nine RBI over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bobby Witt Jr. leads the Royals with 29 extra base hits (19 doubles, a triple and nine home runs).\u00a0Jac Caglianone\u00a0is 15 for 34 with two doubles, two home runs and six RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 6-4, .258 batting average, 4.30 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Royals: 5-5, .282 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n\n\n\n
INJURIES: Nationals: Jake Irvin: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0Trevor Williams: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Ken Waldichuk: 60-Day IL (forearm),\u00a0Josiah Gray: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Max Kranick: 60-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0DJ Herz: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Royals:\u00a0Vinnie Pasquantino: 10-Day IL (hand),\u00a0Kyle Isbel: 10-Day IL (foot), Seth Lugo: 7-Day IL (head), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow),\u00a0Jonathan India: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder),\u00a0James McArthur: 60-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot),\u00a0Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Kansas City Royals\u00a0(29-43, fifth in the AL Central) vs.\u00a0Washington Nationals\u00a0(37-35, third in the NL East) Washington; Monday, 6:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Mitch Spence (0-0); Nationals:\u00a0Andrew Alvarez\u00a0(1-0, 3.70 ERA, 1.44 WHIP, 26 strikeouts) LINE: Nationals -142, Royals +119; over\/under is 9 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals host the Kansas City Royals on Monday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416292,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416291\/revisions\/416292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}