{"id":692,"date":"2024-08-12T21:38:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T01:38:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-08-12T21:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T01:38:15","slug":"preview-kansas-city-royals-face-minnesota-twins-at-target-field-on-08-13-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/preview-kansas-city-royals-face-minnesota-twins-at-target-field-on-08-13-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Kansas City Royals Face Minnesota Twins at Target Field on 08\/13\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals will battle the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on August 13, 2024. The first pitch is set for 7:40 PM with clear skies expected for the game night. Seth Lugo will take the mound for the Royals, currently holding an ERA of 2.717, while the Twins&#8217; starting pitcher has not yet been announced. In the 2024 AL Central Division, the Royals are ranked 5th with a 65-53 record, indicating a 0.55 winning percentage and a strong divisional performance of 25 wins against 11 losses, placing them 3rd in the division. Recently, they&#8217;ve won 6 of their last 10 games and are riding a one-game winning streak. Home and away records stand at 38-25 and 27-28 respectively, with a better record in night games at 39 wins. The Royals have scored 567 runs and conceded 471 runs this season. The Twins, positioned 4th in the same division, have a win-loss record of 65-52, which translates to a 0.56 winning percentage. Their division record of 26-16 places them 2nd, with a similar recent form of 6 wins in the last 10 matches but currently on a two-game losing streak. Their home record is 34-23, slightly better than their 31-29 away record, with day and night game wins at 34 and 31 respectively. Offensively, the Twins have racked up 566 runs, conceding 512 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas City Royals will battle the Minnesota Twins at Target Field on August 13, 2024. The first pitch is set for 7:40 PM with clear skies expecte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betwyomingsports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}