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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (5-1) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (3-3)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 7:45 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Chad Patrick<\/a> (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, four strikeouts); Royals: Luinder Avila<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -110, Brewers -110; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals host the Milwaukee Brewers to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Kansas City had an 82-80 record overall and a 43-38 record at home last season. The Royals pitching staff had a collective 3.74 ERA while averaging 8.0 strikeouts per nine innings in the 2025 season.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee went 97-65 overall and 45-36 on the road a season ago. The Brewers scored 5.0 runs per game in the 2025 season while giving up 3.9.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Michael Wacha<\/a>: day-to-day (illness), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Massey<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Andrew Vaughn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Steward Berroa: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Craig Yoho<\/a>: 15-Day IL (calf), Rob Zastryzny: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Jackson Chourio: 10-Day IL (hand), Quinn Priester: 15-Day IL (wrist), Akil Baddoo: 60-Day IL (quadricep)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers (5-1) vs. Kansas City Royals (3-3) Kansas City, Missouri; Friday, 7:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[1749,5,136,1092,4838,3924,75686,1629,55,40028,19,2128,5169,843,59,4280,4,5176],"class_list":{"0":"post-660529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-andrew-vaughn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brewers","11":"tag-carlos-estevez","12":"tag-chad-patrick","13":"tag-craig-yoho","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-james-mcarthur","16":"tag-kansas-city-royals","17":"tag-luinder-avila","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-michael-massey","20":"tag-michael-wacha","21":"tag-milwaukee","22":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","23":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-stephen-kolek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}