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The reeling Oakland Athletics return home to face a team they enjoyed some success against last season — but not so far this year — when the Kansas City Royals visit for a three-game series that kicks off Tuesday night.

The A’s flew back from Minnesota on Sunday night after having completed a winless seven-game trip. Counting consecutive losses to the Toronto Blue Jays to end its last homestand, Oakland has dropped nine in a row.

In completing their season series, the A’s will get a rematch with the Royals, who picked up 6-2, 5-3 and 8-4 wins when the clubs met in Kansas City last month. That began an eight-game winning streak that has placed the Royals solidly in the playoff picture in the American League.

Interestingly, the A’s were skidding both times they saw the Royals last year but managed to turn things around on each occasion. They took two of three in Kansas City in May 2023 after having lost eight of nine going in, then repeated the two-of-three success at home in August in the wake of another 1-8 run.

Neither of Monday’s projected starting pitchers — left-hander Hogan Harris (0-0, 2.49 ERA) of the A’s and righty Alec Marsh (5-3, 3.63) of the Royals — saw action in the three games at Kansas City last month, but they pitched one day apart in the August meeting in Oakland last year, with the A’s winning both times.

Harris lasted just 3 2/3 innings, allowing four runs, but got the win nonetheless in a bulk-innings-reliever role in a 5-4 win in his first-ever meeting with the Royals.

The 27-year-old has pitched well in both his June starts this season, holding the Toronto Blue Jays and San Diego Padres to a total of two runs in 11 innings.

This time around, Harris will see a team that used Monday’s day off to catch its breath after a rugged stretch in which the Royals played 12 straight games against the Cleveland Guardians, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers. The Royals won five of those games.