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The Pittsburgh Pirates (74-74) take on the Kansas City Royals (52-97) for three games at PNC Park, starting Monday night with Joe Musgrove on the mound. Brad Keller gets the start for the Royals. The 23-year-old right-hander has a 3.04 ERA in 127.1 innings, with 87 strikeouts and a 1.30 WHIP. He has allowed one earned run over seven innings in each of his last two starts.

Here are the lineups. Francisco Cervelli was originally in the lineup, but he was later scratched due to flu-like symptoms:

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John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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