The Kansas City Royals are going for a road sweep today in the Pacific Northwest, yes, you read that right a ROAD sweep. Last night, the Royals once again snatched a clutch victory in extras from the Seattle Mariners, allowing the Royals to win their third series this season and their first on the road. Shades of the 2024 season is starting to come up these Royals, as they are starting to show signs of the team people projected them to be preseason.
Kris Bubic gets the start this afternoon. Bubic had
a rollercoaster ride of a start in Sacramento to start the road trip. He went 5 innings allowing 4 hits, 1 run, walking 4 but striking out 6, on 96 pitches. That game was the only one the Royals won in Sacramento.
The Royals have already clinched a .500 road trip with back-to-back victories, in fact all three wins this week have been in 10 innings, it’d be nice if they could take this one in the regular nine innings.
The starters behind Bubic are the same as it has been all series. Carter Jensen catches again today, while Salvy is the designated hitter, but this is the same starting lineup as the first two games, so some consistency from Q.
On the other side, it’s been a rough go for the Mariners. They came into this series at .500 but have dropped two heartbreakers. They also lost Cal Raleigh for unknown soreness these last two games, and their closer Andrés Muñoz blew a save last night.
Anyways, righty Luis Castillo gets the ball today for Seattle. The 33-year-old is having a rough go to start the season. He has a 6.35 ERA over 28.1 innings this season. His last start in Minnesota was not great. He surrendered seven hits, seven runs and two homers in just 5 innings of work.
Behind him, is a different starting lineup than we’ve seen the first two nights in Seattle.
The Royals sit at 14-19 and winners in 6 of their last 8 games. Can they complete a road sweep today and a winning trip out west? They come into today 2 games out of the final wild card spot and 3.5 games behind the division leading Guardians, who they start a four-game series with tomorrow night at the K. First pitch is set for 3:10 p.m. CT, the game can be streamed on Royals.TV.
