CHICAGO • Four of the American League Central’s five teams will visit St. Louis next year as part of interleague play, and three of them will have home-and-home series with the Cardinals.

According to a tentative schedule given the club and awaiting approval by the players’ union, the Cardinals will play “natural rival” Kansas City in two three-game series, one in each city, and home-and-home two-game series against Minnesota and the Chicago White Sox, an official who has seen the schedule confirmed.

The Cardinals will also host Detroit and visit Cleveland during interleague play.

The tentative schedule has the Cardinals opening the 2015 regular season on the road. The Cardinals have not had the first game of a season at Busch Stadium since 2011.

The four games against the Twins will be crammed into a single week with the Cardinals visiting Target Field for the first time in the regular season. The Cardinals helped prepare the park for opening in 2010 with an exhibition series there. With a two-game series at Target, the Cardinals will have played a regular-season series in 29 of the 30 active ballparks. The only ballpark without a visit from the Cardinals is new Yankee Stadium.

Baseball’s current rotation has the Cardinals visiting there in 2017.

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