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Kansas City Royals (12-18, fifth in the AL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (10-9, second in the AL Central)

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Kansas City Royals (12-18, fifth in the AL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (10-9, second in the AL Central)

St. Louis; Wednesday, 8:15 p.m. EDT

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Jakob Junis (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 0.00 WHIP, 0 strikeouts) Cardinals: Dakota Hudson (0-2, 3.46 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 13 strikeouts)

LINE: Cardinals favoured by 1 1/2 runs; over/under is 9 runs

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals host the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday.

The Cardinals went 50-31 on their home field in 2019. St. Louis hit .245 as a team last year and averaged 3.0 extra base hits per game.

The Royals went 28-53 away from home in 2019. Kansas City averaged 8.4 hits per game last year, batting .247 as a team.

The teams meet for the second time this season. The season series is tied 1-1.

INJURIES: Cardinals: Miles Mikolas: (forearm), John Brebbia: (elbow), Matt Wieters: (toe).

Royals: Glenn Sparkman: (right forearm), Randy Rosario: (undisclosed), Mike Montgomery: (lat strain), Jakob Junis: (back), Foster Griffin: (forearm), Danny Duffy: (arm), Nick Heath: (left hamstring), Franchy Cordero: (right wrist), Kelvin Gutierrez: (elbow), Salvador Perez: (eye).

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

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