{"id":662508,"date":"2026-04-04T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662508\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T09:48:04","slug":"royals-take-on-the-brewers-in-first-of-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662508\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals take on the Brewers in first of 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/milwaukee-brewers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (5-1) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/kansas-city-royals-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> (3-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/chad-patrick-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chad Patrick<\/a> (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, four strikeouts); Royals: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/luinder-avila-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luinder Avila<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Brewers -116, Royals -104; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals host the Milwaukee Brewers to start a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Kansas City had an 82-80 record overall and a 43-38 record at home last season. The Royals averaged 2.9 extra base hits per game, including 1.0 home run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Milwaukee went 97-65 overall and 45-36 in road games last season. The Brewers pitching staff had a 3.59 ERA collectively last season while averaging 9.0 strikeouts and 3.3 walks per nine innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">INJURIES: Royals: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/michael-wacha-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Wacha<\/a>: day-to-day (illness), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/carlos-estevez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/stephen-kolek-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Kolek<\/a>: 15-Day IL (oblique), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/james-mcarthur-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James McArthur<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/mike-massey-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Massey<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">Brewers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/andrew-vaughn-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Vaughn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/craig-yoho-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d515c0f6=\"\">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; Saturday, 2:10 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"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-662508","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":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116345809657079575","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662508","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=662508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662508\/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=662508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}