Houston Astros vs Kansas City Royals Live Streaming

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8:10 pm EDT Wed Jun 16, 2010

The Houston Astros have had a rough time in interleague play in part because they played their first two series against the teams with the best records in baseball. A matchup with the Kansas City Royals wasn’t the reprieve Houston was hoping for. Following their most productive day at the plate in nearly three years, the Royals go for their fifth win in six games Wednesday night when they face Roy Oswalt and an Astros team that’s dropped six straight against the AL. Houston won its interleague opener 2-1 over Tampa Bay on May 21, but it’s lost six in a row since by a combined 51-26 score. The first five losses during the skid came against the Rays and the New York Yankees, who are tied for the best record in the majors at 41-23. Visiting Kansas City seemed like it might be a welcome change for Houston, but the Royals won the series opener 15-7 on Tuesday night, recording their highest run total since July 3, 2007.

Second baseman Mike Aviles went 4 for 5 with a career-high four RBIs and three runs scored as the Royals matched their season high with 20 hits. Kansas City scored seven runs in the fifth inning after it had two out, keyed by Yuniesky Betancourt’s bases-loaded double. The Astros will try to bounce back behind Oswalt. The right-hander rebounded from his worst start of the season by holding Colorado to two runs and four hits and matching his season high with nine strikeouts in seven innings of a 5-4 win at Coors Field on Thursday. Oswalt, who has won back-to-back starts just once this season from April 17-23, is 3-1 with a 1.24 ERA in four road starts. He’s also 1-0 with a 1.29 ERA in two career games against the Royals. He held them to one run while striking out eight in six innings last June, but the Astros fell 4-3 in 11 innings. Despite Oswalt’s success against his team, Kansas City catcher Jason Kendall is a career .391 hitter against the three-time All-Star.

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Seattle Mariners vs St. Louis Cardinals Live Streaming

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8:15 pm EDT Wed Jun 16, 2010

The Seattle Mariners started their 10-game road trip in impressive fashion. The rest of it hasn’t gone nearly as well. Among baseball’s most disappointing teams, the Mariners look to avoid being swept in a three-game series for the fifth time this season Wednesday night when they close the trip against the St. Louis Cardinals. Expected to contend in the AL West after adding Chone Figgins, Milton Bradley and Cliff Lee in the offseason, the Mariners instead find themselves entrenched in last place with one of the majors’ worst records. Seattle, which plays its 20th game in as many days Wednesday, opened its trip June 7 with a 4-2 victory over division-leading Texas before dropping five straight. That skid ended Sunday against San Diego but the Mariners have lost the first two games of this series, falling to 9-24 on the road. Bradley hit his third home run in five games and Ryan Langerhans also went deep for Seattle in Tuesday night’s 4-2 loss. The two-homer game was a rarity for the Mariners, who rank last in the majors in home runs.

Colby Rasmus homered for the second straight day - his 13th - and Albert Pujols added his 15th for St. Louis, 5-0 all-time at home against Seattle. Pujols is 6 for 10 with five RBIs in his last three games, snapping a 1 for 18 skid that had dropped him below .300. He is batting a major league-best .352 with 37 homers and 117 RBIs in 483 interleague at-bats. Rasmus is also swinging a hot bat, batting .410 with six homers and 13 RBIs in 11 games this month. Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki is batting .419 during a 19-game interleague hitting streak, the longest such active streak in the majors. He’ll try to extend his run against impressive Cardinals rookie Jaime Garcia, who looks to win his fourth consecutive decision. The left-hander was far from sharp Friday, but overcame five walks to limit Arizona to one run and four hits in five innings of a 5-2 victory. Garcia’s ERA is the third-lowest by a rookie through his first 12 starts since divisional play began in 1969.

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