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Kansas City Royals OFFICIAL GAME NOTES Minnesota Twins (44-50) @ Kansas City Royals (27-68) Kauffman Stadium - Friday, July 20, 2018 Game #96 - Home Game #47 Fox Sports Kansas City and KCSP Radio (610 Sports) UPCOMING PITCHING PROBABLES Saturday, July 21 vs. Minnesota Twins: RHP Lance Lynn (7-7, 5.22) vs. RHP Jakob Junis (5-10, 5.13), 6:15 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & 610 Sports Sunday, July 22 vs. Minnesota Twins: RHP Jake Odorizzi (4-6, 4.54) vs. RHP Brad Keller (2-4, 3.13), 1:15 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & 610 Sports Monday, July 23 vs. Detroit Tigers: TBA vs. RHP Heath Fillmyer (0-1, 3.45), 7:15 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & 610 Sports Tuesday, July 24 vs. Detroit Tigers: TBA vs. RHP Burch Smith (0-1, 5.98), 7:15 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & 610 Sports Wednesday, July 25 vs. Detroit Tigers: TBA vs. LHP Danny Duffy (5-8 +tonight), 1:15 p.m. (CDT), FSKC & 610 Sports Tonight’s game is being broadcast in Kansas City on KCSP Radio (610 Sports) and the Royals Radio Network with Royals Hall of Famer Denny Matthews, Steve Physioc and Steve Stewart mikeside...tonight’s contest will also be broadcast on Fox Sports Kansas City with Ryan Lefebvre and Rex Hudler on the call...Joel Goldberg and Royals Hall of Famer Jeff Montgomery anchor the pre and post-game shows, Royals Live. Twins vs. Royals UNOFFICIAL SECOND HALF BEGINS TONIGHT--The Royals have 95 games in the books on the Both clubs open their post-All Star schedule this evening, 2018 season, 14 past the midway point, with tonight resuming play for all American League clubs after the having split the first six meetings of the year, 3-3...most recently, Junior Circuit recorded an 8-6 victory in 10 innings in the Midsummer Classic on Tuesday...Kansas City the Twins took two of three in Minneapolis, July 9-11...Kansas is looking for improvement from a 27-68 “first half”, which sees it enter play tonight 25.0 games behind City trails the all-time series by a 379-398 margin, but has a 203- 188 edge in games contested here...the clubs still have 12 head-to- Cleveland in the AL Central...since 2013, the Royals have gone 199-164 (.548) in their post-All Star head meetings this year after tonight’s contest. work, despite a 36-39 record following the break a season ago, when the club finished 80-82 for the year... Date Site Score WP LP Att. in its most recent action, Kansas City dropped the rubber game in Chicago last Sunday, 10-1...infielder 5/28 KC L, 5-8 Lynn Junis 18,572 5/29 KC W, 2-1 (14) Barlow Rogers 20,533 Adalberto Mondesi provided the lone run with a solo shot in the eighth, his third roundtripper of the year. 5/30 KC W, 11-8 McCarthy Romero 21,343 7/9 @ Min L, 1-3 Berrios Hill 20,199 DIVISION IN FOCUS--Kansas City will see divisional foes Minnesota and Detroit on this homestand 7/10 @ Min W, 9-4 Flynn Siegers 27,551 as the club continues its journey through the AL Central this month...the Royals will play 17 of their 7/11 @ Min L, 5-8 Lynn Sparkman 26,708 24 contests during the month of July against divisional opponents, which includes this current 12-game 7/20 KC 7/21 KC stretch, which started before the All-Star break with trips to Minnesota and Chicago...KC is 14-21 7/22 KC against its own division this year...the Royals spent the entire month of June and first day of July playing only the Western Division when competing against the American League, while the interleague slate called for two vs. Cincinnati and two against Milwaukee...things didn’t go well against the American League West, with the Royals going 4-19 during a 23-game stretch in June and finishing with a 7-26 mark on the year and KC has already completed play against the Western Division...the Royals are just 3-15 vs. the East to this point, winning once in Boston, once in Baltimore and once at home against the Yankees, while being swept in Toronto (0-3) and at home by the Red Sox (0-3) and Tampa Bay (0-3)...the Royals are 3-6 against the National League, with the NL Central the focus this season. ROSTER MOVES--The Royals had a busy All-Star break with regards to the roster as the club reinstated outfielder Rosell Herrera from the paternity list on Monday and designated outfielder Abraham Almonte for assignment, while this afternoon, Almonte cleared waivers and became a free agent...Herrera missed the entire Chicago series last weekend as his wife, Patricia Talavera, gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Roselynn Herrera Talavera last Sunday...infielder Adalberto Mondesi was placed on the Family Medical Emergency List yesterday and the club recalled infielder Ramón Torres from Omaha (AAA)...Torres, 25, has appeared in nine games with the Royals this season, while he’s hitting .228 with 15 doubles, two triples, three homers and 28 runs scored in 64 games with the Storm Chasers. ALL-STAR REVIEW--Catcher Salvador Perez made his fifth-straight All-Star start on Tuesday and played the first five innings of the American League’s 8-6 victory in 10 innings at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C....Perez was originally selected to the All-Star team as a reserve, but made the start due to an injury to Rays’ catcher Wilson Ramos...he went 0-for-2 in his two plate appearances, becoming the second Royal to start as many as five All-Star Games, joining George Brett, who started nine times between 1976-85, while he’s one of five Major League players to participate in the Midsummer Classic each of the past six seasons... Royals’ Assistant Athletic Trainer Kyle Turner was also named to the AL All-Star team for the first time in his career. TONIGHT’S STARTING PITCHERS: RHP Kyle Gibson (4-6, 3.42) vs. LHP Danny Duffy (5-8, 4.59) 2018 2017 Career 2018 2017 Career Kyle Gibson vs. Royals 0-0 1-0 6-4 Major League Record 4-6 (3.42 ERA) 12-10 48-54 Danny Duffy vs. Twins 0-0 0-0 5-1 Major League Record 5-8 (4.59 ERA) 9-10 50-51 DANNY DUFFY makes his team-leading 21st start of the season and 151st of his career (179th appearance)…it’s his 20th career outing (16th start) vs. Minnesota and third this season…he signed a five-year extension in 2017, which runs through 2021, Danny’s 2018 Starts and was originally selected in the third round of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft. DATE OPPONENT SCORE IP H R ER HR BB SO TP-K LEFT 3/29 vs. White Sox L, 7-14 4.0 7 5 5 3 2 5 78-46 4-5 SEVEN SCORELESS OVER SOX--Danny earned his 50th career win in a 5-0 4/6 at Cleveland L, 2-3 5.2 3 3 3 0 3 3 99-54 2-3 victory over the White Sox on Saturday, in which he recorded 7.0 scoreless innings on 4/11 vs. Seattle ND, 2-4 5.1 4 2 1 0 3 7 101-61 2-2 4/17 at Toronto-2 ND, 4-5 (10) 6.0 2 0 0 0 3 8 100-64 3-0 four hits and three walks, with eight strikeouts…he allowed just two base runners beyond 4/21 at Detroit L, 4-12 4.2 10 6 6 1 2 2 101-64 3-4 second base, and held the White Sox to 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position…it was 4/27 vs. White Sox ND, 4-7 (11) 6.0 6 4 4 1 1 3 106-74 2-4 5/2 at Boston L, 4-5 6.2 10 5 5 4 1 6 111-73 3-5 his second consecutive scoreless outing over 13.0 innings, the second-longest active 5/8 at Baltimore W, 15-7 5.1 6 1 1 1 2 5 101-65 15-1 5/13 at Cleveland L, 2-11 3.1 8 9 9 2 5 2 87-51 0-9 streak in the Majors by a starting pitcher, trailing Boston’s Eduardo Rodriguez (19.0 IP). 5/19 vs. NY Yankees L, 3-8 4.0 7 5 5 2 3 4 95-58 2-5 STRIKEOUTS FOR A CAUSE--For every strikeout he records in 2018, Duffy will 5/24 at Texas W, 8-2 7.2 4 1 1 0 2 5 113-76 8-1 5/29 vs. Minnesota ND, 2-1 (14) 6.0 4 1 1 0 4 4 108-66 0-1 donate $1,000 to Noah’s Bandage Project, a local foundation that provides fun bandages 6/4 at LA Angels ND, 6-9 5.0 7 4 4 2 3 0 99-59 5-4 to kids and raises money to fight childhood cancer…from 2016-17, he pledged $159,000 6/9 at Oakland W, 2-0 7.0 3 0 0 0 3 10 98-63 1-0 6/16 vs. Houston L, 2-10 6.0 7 7 6 1 3 5 101-59 2-7 ($500 per strikeout), before upping the ante this season, which has already reached 6/22 at Houston ND, 1-0 6.0 2 0 0 0 4 7 104-63 0-0 $103,000 through his first 20 starts…the foundation is named for Noah Wilson, who 6/27 at Milwaukee W, 5-4 6.0 5 1 1 1 2 7 95-64 5-1 7/3 vs.