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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (6-2) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (4-4)<\/p>\n

Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday, 2:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Kyle Harrison<\/a> (0-0, 1.80 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Royals: Kris Bubic (1-0, 1.50 ERA, 0.83 WHIP, four strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Royals -124, Brewers +104; over\/under is 8 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers play on Sunday with the winner claiming the three-game series.<\/p>\n

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

Milwaukee had a 97-65 record overall and a 45-36 record in road games last season. The Brewers averaged 2.8 extra base hits per game, including 1.0 home run.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), 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: Sal Frelick<\/a>: day-to-day (side), Andrew Vaughn<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), 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 (6-2) vs. Kansas City Royals (4-4) Kansas City, Missouri; Sunday, 2:10 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":[2387],"tags":[1749,5,1092,3924,75686,1629,936,2123,55,2596,2595,2168,19,2128,5169,59,4,252,312,5176],"class_list":{"0":"post-664552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-andrew-vaughn","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-carlos-estevez","11":"tag-craig-yoho","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-james-mcarthur","14":"tag-kansas","15":"tag-kansas-city","16":"tag-kansas-city-royals","17":"tag-kansascity","18":"tag-kansascityroyals","19":"tag-kyle-harrison","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-michael-massey","22":"tag-michael-wacha","23":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","24":"tag-mlb","25":"tag-royals","26":"tag-sal-frelick","27":"tag-stephen-kolek"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116352201764830276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664552","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=664552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664552\/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=664552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}