Cleveland Indians at Kansas City Royals Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 17-10 Kansas City Royals take on the 10-16 Cleveland Indians tonight in MLB action on the grass of Kauffman Stadium May 7, 2015. First pitch is scheduled for 2:10PM EST.

Wagering Odds
Moneyline: Royals -110/Indians +100
O/U Total: 8

Pitching Matchup
Corey Kluber (R) W/L 0-4 WHIP 1.36 ERA 4.62
Edinson Volquez (R) W/L 2-3 WHIP 0.93 ERA 2.10

Cleveland won last night’s game 10-5 to even the series at 1-1. The Indians are 1-1 on their current road trip and 4-6 in their last 10 games. With the loss, the Royals are now 10-5 at home in 2015. They are 3-3 on their current homestand and 5-4 in their last 9 games.

Kansas City has a 3-2 lead on the season series with Cleveland and a 5-4 edge in the last 9 games between these two clubs.

Kluber lost his 3rd-straight start last week allowing 4 runs in 5 innings. He has now surrendered 14 ERs in his last 17.1 innings covering his last 3 starts. He started the year with 3 Q starts but the team is 0-6 in his 6 starts.

Volquez lost his 2nd-straight start in his last outing but pitched well (6 innings, 2 ERs). For the year, he has 4 Q starts in 5 outings and hasn’t allowed more than 3 ERs in any of his starts.

Indians OF Michael Bourn is the only player with more than 6 ABs vs. Volquez and he is hitting .294 with 2 stolen bases.

The Royals have seen a lot of Kluber and several players have had success vs. the right-hander. 3B Mike Moustakas leads the way with a .440 BA. 2B Omar Infante (.350) and OF Jarrod Dyson (.292) have done well in this matchup. OF Alex Gordon and 1B Eric Hosmer have both hit 2 homers off of Kluber but both are hitting only .185 off of him.

Cleveland at Kansas City Betting Trends

The Indians are 8-15 straight up in their last 23 games.
Cleveland is 5-1 straight up in their last 6 games on the road in Kansas City.
The game total has gone over in 5 of Cleveland’s last 5 games playing Kansas City.
The Royals are 17-7 straight up in their last 24 home games.
The total has gone over the posted line in 4 of the Indians last 6 home games.

Injury Report

CLEVELAND INDIANS
Gavin Floyd P 60-Day Disabled List
Yan Gomes C 15-Day Disabled List
T.J. House P 15-Day Disabled List
Josh Tomlin P 60-Day Disabled List

KANSAS CITY ROYALS
Tim Collins P 15-Day Disabled List
Alcides Escobar SS 7-Day Disabled List
Luke Hochevar P 15-Day Disabled List
Erik Kratz C 15-Day Disabled List
Kris Medlen P 60-Day Disabled List
Alex Rios OF 15-Day Disabled List
Yordano Ventura P Out Until May 8 (suspension)

Consensus Picks (Public Money line Bets)
Cleveland: 32%
Kansas City: 68%

Free MLB Pick

Indians starter Corey Kluber has been struggling in his last three starts and included in that was a 6 1/3 outing against the Royals were he gave up 6 runs (4 earned) on 10 hits. Previously to that he had pitched well against them. Kansas City starter Edinson Volquez is one out short of being 5 for 5 in Q starts this season. He has some poor historical numbers versus Cleveland, but the last start was back in 2011 and two back of that was in 2006. The current lineup has only 33 at bats against him with moderate numbers of .274 BA, .324 OBP, .333 SLG and .658. We’ll go with the public on this game and back the home squad.

Take the Kansas City Royals -110‏