The Kansas City Royals travel east—at least theoretically on I-70—to face the odious St. Louis Cardinals on the Redbirds’ home turf. A one-way rivalry if ever there were one, many Royals fans care deeply about beating the nearly always better Cardinals—a franchise whose success owes itself to some unknowable alchemy of dark arts, bad barbecue, worse pizza, scrap-heap Lazarus action, and soul-selling to the Devil.
The Cardinals fans care not about the Royals. They’re too busy looking terrible on Twitter.
Game times and pitching matchups are as follows:
Royals at Cardinals series preview
| Pitcher | G | IP | K | K% | BB | BB% | ERA | FIP | xFIP | SIERA | fWAR | rWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitcher | G | IP | K | K% | BB | BB% | ERA | FIP | xFIP | SIERA | fWAR | rWAR |
| Game 1 | ||||||||||||
| Ian Kennedy | 9 | 47. |