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St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (40-34, second in the NL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals<\/a> (32-45, fifth in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Dustin May<\/a> (5-6, 3.75 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, 75 strikeouts); Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (4-1, 2.68 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 34 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Cardinals -125, Royals +103; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals, on a three-game losing streak, play the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n

Kansas City is 32-45 overall and 19-21 at home. The Royals have a 14-7 record in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n

St. Louis has a 19-17 record on the road and a 40-34 record overall. The Cardinals have the fifth-ranked team on-base percentage in the NL at .325.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the sixth time these teams meet this season. The Royals hold a 3-2 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Salvador Perez<\/a> leads the Royals with 10 home runs while slugging .344. Carter Jensen<\/a> is 15 for 41 with seven doubles, a home run and eight RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jordan Walker<\/a> leads the Cardinals with 18 home runs while slugging .538. JJ Wetherholt<\/a> is 15 for 43 with a double, a home run and six RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Royals: 4-6, .307 batting average, 5.16 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Cardinals: 4-6, .271 batting average, 5.51 ERA, outscored by three runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Royals: Carlos Estevez: 60-Day IL (foot), Nick Mears: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 15-Day IL (elbow), Maikel Garcia<\/a>: day-to-day (hand), Bobby Witt<\/a> Jr.: day-to-day (knee), Cole Ragans: 60-Day IL (elbow), Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hand), Kyle Isbel<\/a>: 10-Day IL (foot), Jonathan India<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Cardinals: Ryan Fernandez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (back), Ramon Urias: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"St. Louis Cardinals (40-34, second in the NL Central) vs. Kansas City Royals (32-45, fifth in the AL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[5,1351,160,21682,126,75686,1629,18050,2161,4679,55,3402,2162,19,4,18209,373,673,67,5176,4311,4310,2126],"class_list":["post-731615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-baseball","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-cardinals","tag-carter-jensen","tag-dustin-may","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-walker","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-isbel","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-ryan-fernandez","tag-salvador-perez","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stephen-kolek","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-vinnie-pasquantino"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116787212673146813","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731615","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=731615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}