Harvey scheduled to start for Kansas City against St. Louis

Posted August 25, 2020 7:00 am

By The Associated Press

Kansas City Royals (11-18, fifth in the AL Central) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (10-8, second in the AL Central)

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Royals: Matt Harvey (0-1, 9.00 ERA, 2.00 WHIP, 4 strikeouts) Cardinals: Adam Wainwright (2-0, 2.00 ERA, .83 WHIP, 12 strikeouts)

LINE: Cardinals favored by 1 1/2 runs; over/under is 8 1/2 runs

BOTTOM LINE: The Kansas City Royals face the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday.

The Cardinals finished 50-31 in home games in 2019. St. Louis averaged 8.2 hits per game last season while batting .245 as a team.

The Royals went 28-53 away from home in 2019. Kansas City averaged 8.4 hits with 3.0 extra base hits per game last year.

The teams meet for the first time this year. St. Louis leads the season series 1-0.

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), 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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