{"id":844625,"date":"2026-09-11T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844625\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T22:56:09","slug":"royals-at-red-sox-september-11-live-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844625\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals at Red Sox, September 11 live discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only team <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/10326\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seth Lugo<\/a> has a worse career ERA (min. three appearances) against than tonight&#8217;s opponent, the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/boston\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>, are the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/cleveland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a>. And considering how poorly Lugo has pitched since the All-Star Break and how often the Red Sox get to him, it doesn&#8217;t take much imagination at all to see his ERA of 5.61 against them going higher than the 5.88 he has against the Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>Add in that the only AL team the Royals have performed worse against in the past 3 years are the <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/teams\/ny-yankees\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a>. Then slap some &#8220;<a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/players\/9459\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Gray<\/a> has dominated the Royals with a 10-2 record and a 1.74 ERA in 14 career starts&#8221; on top, and tonight&#8217;s game seems ripe for disaster for the good guys.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t think I have anything more to say about the pitching matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Lineups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only team Seth Lugo has a worse career ERA (min. three appearances) against than tonight&#8217;s opponent, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[374,2320,6946,2321,6747,363,33650,99,364],"class_list":["post-844625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-seth-lugo","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}