Kansas City Royals\u00a0(29-44, fifth in the AL Central) vs.\u00a0Washington Nationals\u00a0(38-35, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals:\u00a0Michael Wacha\u00a0(4-5, 3.58 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 69 strikeouts); Nationals:\u00a0Foster Griffin\u00a0(7-2, 3.46 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 74 strikeouts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LINE: Nationals -136, Royals +112; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals will try to keep a three-game home win streak alive when they take on the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington has gone 15-21 in home games and 38-35 overall. Nationals hitters have a collective .323 on-base percentage, the fifth-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kansas City is 29-44 overall and 12-23 on the road. The Royals have a 13-7 record in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TOP PERFORMERS:\u00a0James Wood\u00a0leads the Nationals with 20 home runs while slugging .560.\u00a0Luis Garcia\u00a0is 9 for 36 with four home runs and 14 RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bobby Witt Jr. has 19 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 28 RBI for the Royals.\u00a0Jac Caglianone\u00a0is 15 for 34 with three doubles, two home runs and six RBI over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Nationals: 7-3, .271 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored opponents by 27 runs<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Royals: 4-6, .274 batting average, 4.65 ERA, outscored by five runs<\/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:\u00a0Carlos Estevez: 60-Day IL (foot),\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),\u00a0Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Kansas City Royals\u00a0(29-44, fifth in the AL Central) vs.\u00a0Washington Nationals\u00a0(38-35, third in the NL East) Washington; Tuesday, 6:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals:\u00a0Michael Wacha\u00a0(4-5, 3.58 ERA, 1.16 WHIP, 69 strikeouts); Nationals:\u00a0Foster Griffin\u00a0(7-2, 3.46 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 74 strikeouts) LINE: Nationals -136, Royals +112; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Nationals will try […]<\/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-416403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416403","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=416403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416404,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416403\/revisions\/416404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}