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Carlos Hernandez starts for the KC Royals tonight against the White Sox, a team he’s tamed twice this season, and against whom he’ll try to continue his recent emergence as an important member of the Royals’ ever-fluid rotation.
Hernandez began 2020 in the bullpen and didn’t earn a start until July 18 against Baltimore. That start, the fourth of his short big league career (he started three 2020 games) was good. He struck out six in four innings, but the two-run single he surrendered in the third accounted for the first and only runs the Orioles needed to beat Kansas City 5-0.