Royals enfrentam os Brewers no primeiro de uma série de 3 jogos

Milwaukee Brewers (5-1) vs. Kansas City Royals (3-3)

Kansas City, Missouri; Saturday, 2:10 p.m. EDT

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Chad Patrick (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, four strikeouts); Royals: Luinder Avila (0-0)

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Brewers -116, Royals -104; over/under is 8 1/2 runs

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals host the Milwaukee Brewers to start a three-game series.

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.

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.

INJURIES: Royals: Bailey Falter: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Wacha: day-to-day (illness), Carlos Estevez: 15-Day IL (foot), Stephen Kolek: 15-Day IL (oblique), James McArthur: 15-Day IL (elbow), Michael Massey: 10-Day IL (calf), Alec Marsh: 60-Day IL (shoulder)

Brewers: Andrew Vaughn: 10-Day IL (hand), Craig Yoho: 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)

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.