Oakland Athletics at Kansas City Royals Prediction and Betting Pick. The 5-6 Oakland A’s take on the 8 -2 Kansas City Royals in this 2nd of a 3 game series at Kauffman Stadium April 18, 2015, first pitch is scheduled for 7:10 tonight on the grass.
Wagering Odds
Moneyline: Kansas City -126/Oakland +116
O/U Total: 7.5
The Kansas City Royals are looking for another win tonight against Oakland after beating them yesterday in a 4-2 game ending their skidding streak after they lost 2 games back to back against the Twins in their last series. The Royals will be starting the hot right handed Yordano Ventura who is 2-0 on the season so far, while the A’s will send Jesse Hahn 0-1 to the hill who is yet to pick up a win this season. The start to the season has been up and down for Oakland who until yesterday were 5-5 on the season. The Athletics have one of the most potent offenses as they have managed to score 8 or more runs 4 times already this season. When the Athletics are hot they are hot but when they are not they are not scoring just 1 run in 3 of their season games hence the up and down comment earlier. The Royals started the season on a winning streak but had a reality check against the Twins. The Kansas City offense has been sizzling averaging 6.6 runs per game but hit a wall against the Twins losing 2 of 3 games in that series. Yesterday they had a big comeback proving they are one of the best teams in the league this year.
Pitching Matchup
JESSE HAHN (R) ERA: 3.09 W/L: 0-1
YORDANO VENTURA (R) ERA: 2.31 W/L: 2-0
Oakland at Kansas City Betting Trends
The Athletics are 2-4 straight up in their last 6 games.
The game total has gone over the posted total in 7 or Oakland’s last 9 games.
Kansas City is 8-2 straight up in their last 10 games
The Royals are 6-1 of 7 games straight up when playing Oakland
The total has gone over in 6 of 8 games when Kansas City plays at home.
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Injury Report
OAKLAND ATHLETICS
Coco Crisp
Sean Doolittle
Nate Freiman
A.J. Griffin
Sean Nolin
Jarrod Parker
Taylor Thompson
KANSAS CITY ROYALS
Tim Collins
Alcides Escobar
Luke Hochevar
Kris Medlen
Alex Rios
Consensus Betting
Oakland: 38%
Kansas City: 62%
Free MLB Pick
here is no history on Hahn against the Royals to hang our hat on, but the Royals have been awfully good at the plate this season hitting over 300 and scoring 6.7 runs per game. Kansas City starter Ventura has been good this season, but the A’s have also been getting it done at the plate scoring 5.40 runs per game. The total is low and we could see a pitching duel, but we’ll bank on the side of the bats in this game.
Take the OVER 7.5
