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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (19-26, fifth in the AL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (26-18, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n St. Louis; Saturday, 2:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron<\/a> (2-2, 5.55 ERA, 1.63 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Cardinals: Kyle Leahy<\/a> (4-3, 4.31 ERA, 1.59 WHIP, 32 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Royals -112, Cardinals -106; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals aim to end a five-game slide with a victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n St. Louis has an 11-10 record in home games and a 26-18 record overall. The Cardinals are 11-5 in games when they hit two or more home runs.<\/p>\n Kansas City has a 6-16 record on the road and a 19-26 record overall. The Royals have gone 10-21 in games when they have allowed at least one home run.<\/p>\n Saturday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Alec Burleson<\/a> has 11 doubles, six home runs and 31 RBIs while hitting .276 for the Cardinals. Ivan Herrera<\/a> is 14 for 43 with three doubles over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> has seven home runs, 22 walks and 23 RBIs while hitting .309 for the Royals. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 11 for 40 with three doubles and five RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 6-4, .246 batting average, 3.20 ERA, outscored opponents by three runs<\/p>\n Royals: 3-7, .234 batting average, 4.59 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Cardinals: Matt Pushard: 15-Day IL (knee), Ramon Urias: 10-Day IL (elbow), Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels)<\/p>\n Royals: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Cole Ragans: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Estevez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (foot), Jonathan India<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), James McArthur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.foxsports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kansas City Royals (19-26, fifth in the AL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (26-18, third in the NL Central) St. Louis; Saturday, 2:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Noah Cameron (2-2, 5.55 ERA, 1.63 WHIP, 32 strikeouts); Cardinals: Kyle Leahy (4-3, 4.31 ERA, 1.59 WHIP, 32 strikeouts) LINE: Royals -112, Cardinals -106; over\/under is 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[412722,91466,308583,455467,377394,345673,313841,43627,473934,313842,311159,314825,357714],"class_list":["post-2419306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-alec-burleson","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-event_preview","tag-ivan-herrera","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jonathan-india","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kyle-leahy","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-noah-cameron","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Suarez-leads-Mariners-against-the-Royals-following-4-hit-game.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419307,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419306\/revisions\/2419307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}