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Kansas City Royals<\/a> (19-27, fifth in the AL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> (27-18, third in the NL Central)<\/p>\n St. Louis; Sunday, 2:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek<\/a> (1-0, 6.75 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Cardinals: Andre Pallante<\/a> (4-3, 4.46 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 33 strikeouts)<\/p>\n LINE: Cardinals -116, Royals -104; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals will try to stop a five-game road losing streak when they visit the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n St. Louis has a 27-18 record overall and a 12-10 record at home. The Cardinals are 11-5 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n Kansas City is 19-27 overall and 6-17 in road games. Royals hitters have a collective .318 on-base percentage, the 10th-ranked percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n Sunday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: JJ Wetherholt<\/a> has five doubles, eight home runs and 22 RBIs for the Cardinals. Jordan Walker<\/a> is 12 for 39 with four doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> leads the Royals with seven home runs while slugging .503. Maikel Garcia<\/a> is 12 for 41 with four doubles and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Cardinals: 6-4, .244 batting average, 3.10 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n Royals: 2-8, .232 batting average, 4.75 ERA, outscored by 12 runs<\/p>\n INJURIES: Cardinals: Ramon Urias: 10-Day IL (elbow), Lars Nootbaar: 60-Day IL (heels)<\/p>\n Royals: Matt Strahm: 15-Day IL (knee), 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 (19-27, fifth in the AL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (27-18, third in the NL Central) St. Louis; Sunday, 2:15 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Stephen Kolek (1-0, 6.75 ERA, 1.12 WHIP, nine strikeouts); Cardinals: Andre Pallante (4-3, 4.46 ERA, 1.37 WHIP, 33 strikeouts) LINE: Cardinals -116, Royals -104; over\/under is 9 […]<\/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":[474038,91466,308583,455467,345673,474154,313841,364335,43627,313842,311159,357714,347944],"class_list":["post-2420399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-andre-pallante","tag-bobby-witt-jr","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-event_preview","tag-james-mcarthur","tag-jj-wetherholt","tag-jonathan-india","tag-jordan-walker","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-maikel-garcia","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stephen-kolek"],"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\/2420399","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=2420399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2420400,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420399\/revisions\/2420400"}],"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=2420399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}