The Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals are playing live on the MLB schedule on Tuesday night and the start of this game is at 8:10 pm ET at Kauffman Stadium and has the KC Royals first in the AL Central after overtaking the Detroit Tigers and now they have the chance to keep that going as they open a series against the A's and the pitching matchup has Jon Lester against Jeremy Guthrie in a nice duel.
The Kansas City Royals have been playing great baseball and now this could be a potential matchup in the playoffs, as KC now is leading the AL Central over the Tigers. The team has won nine of ten games and eight in a row and now they face off against one of the best in the AL. Oakland has been leading the AL West and now KC is trying to win here and this is one of only a few series down the stretch that are against winning teams for the Royals.
The Athletics come into the game ranked first in the league in runs scored and they are trying to keep things going as the Angels are chasing in the division. Oakland made a big move at the trade deadline with Lester and now he will be on the mound and they are facing off against the hottest team in baseball. The team lost already on Monday and now the A's will try to bounce back with their new ace and this comes ahead of a matchup with Scott Kazmir and Jason Vargas.
The A's have lost a bit with the trade of Yoenis Cespedes and now they Royals come into the series playing better than anyone and all of a sudden they are in first place in their division. The pitching has been solid with the Royals and they are ranked in the top 10 in ERA and quality starts, while the hitting is starting to come around and they just picked up Josh Willingham as well.
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