Kansas City Royals at Toronto Blue Jays Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 53-51 Toronto Blue Jays play host to the 61-41 Kansas City Royals today in MLB action on the turf of Rogers Center, August 1, 2015. The first pitch is scheduled for 1:07PM ET.
Betting Odds
Moneyline: Royals +116/Blue Jays -126
O/U Total: 8
Pitching Matchup
Yordano Ventura (R) W/L 5-7 WHIP 1.31 ERA 4.86
Mark Buehrle (L) W/L 11-5 WHIP 1.19 ERA 3.29
Toronto was a 7-6 winner over Kansas City last night. They are 3-1 on their homestand and 6-4 in their last 10 games. The Blue Jays are 31-20 at home in 2015. The Royals are 2-3 on their road trip and 4-5 in their past 9 games.
Toronto leads the season series 3-2 and has a 5-2 advantage in the last 7 matchups between these two clubs.
Ventura was a 5-1 winner over Houston in his last start. He allowed 1 run over 7 innings for his 5th Q start of the year.
Buehrle received a no decision in his last outing, a 6-5 loss at Seattle. He went 5.2 innings and allowed 3 runs, ending his run of 9-straight Q starts. He has 14 on the year and has 1 loss in his last 11 starts.
KC C Salvador Perez is 4-11 (.364) with an RBI against Buehrle while SS Alcides Escobar is 9-23 (.391) with an RBI. IF Ben Zobrist is 12-33 (.364) against the veteran left-hander with a HR and 5 RBIs. The remaining 8 hitters are a combined 23-124 (.185) vs. Buehrle with 1 HR, 5 RBIs and 0 SBs.
Only 6 Blue Jays have faced Ventura before. 1B Justin Smoak is 1-5 (.200) with a HR and 2 RBIs. The 5 other hitters are a combined 1-13 (.077) with 1 RBI.
Kansas City at Toronto Betting Trends
The Royals are 2-4 straight up in their last 6 road games.
Kansas City is 2-5 straight up in their last 7 games against Toronto.
The game total has gone under in 6 of Kansas City’s last 9 games on the road in Toronto.
The Blue Jays are 4-2 straight up in their last 6 games overall.
Toronto is 4-1 straight up in their last 5 home games.
Injury Report
KANSAS CITY ROYALS
Tim Collins P 60-Day Disabled List
Brian Flynn P 15-Day Disabled List
Alex Gordon OF 15-Day Disabled List
Jason Vargas P 15-Day Disabled List
TORONTO BLUE JAYS
Maicer Izturis 2B 60-Day Disabled List
Michael Saunders OF 15-Day Disabled List
Marcus Stroman P 60-Day Disabled List
Devon Travis 2B 15-Day Disabled List
Consensus Pick ATS
Kansas City: 34%
Toronto: 66%
Free MLB Pick
We have the best scoring team in baseball facing a starter who has recorded a Q start in just 28.6% of his road starts and brings a 1-3 W/L road record with a 4.61 ERA into this game. He did look good in his only career start against Toronto back in April, but this is a different animal now and the Jays should like they did against Danny Duffy on Thursday figure him out his stuff the second time around. The Royals don’t hit lefties well and Toronto starter Mark Buehrle and are unlikely to get to the left-hander at home where he is 5-1 with a 2.98 ERA with a 87.5 Q start ratio.
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