Kansas City Royals at Detroit Tigers Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 52-55 Detroit Tigers play host to the 63-43 Kansas City Royals today in MLB action on the grass of Comerica Park, August 6, 2015. The first pitch is scheduled for 1:08PM ET.
Betting Odds
Moneyline: Kansas City -122/Detroit +112
O/U Total: 8
Pitching Matchup
Yordano Ventura (R) W/L 6-7 WHIP 1.30 ERA 4.98
Anibal Sanchez (R) W/L 10-9 WHIP 1.26 ERA 4.77
Detroit nipped Kansas City 2-1 yesterday. They are 1-1 on their homestand and 4-6 in their last 10 games. The Royals are 2-5 in their past 7 games, all on the road.
KC leads the season series 5-4 and has a 6-4 advantage in the last 10 encounters between these AL Central rivals.
Ventura was a 7-6 winner at Toronto in his last start. He allowed 5 ERs over 7 innings and has 5 Q starts on the season.
Sanchez was a 6-2 loser at Baltimore in his last outing. He surrendered 6 runs in 6.2 innings and has 11 Q starts this year.
KC SS Alcides Escobar is 8-25 (.320) against Sanchez with a HR, 2 RBIs and 2 SBs while 1B Eric Hosmer is 8-29 (.276) with 3 RBIs and a steal. No one else on the Royals is hitting better than .250 against the veteran right-hander and the team is hitting below .200 (in 153 ABs) vs. Sanchez when you take Escobar and Hosmer out of the equation.
No one on Detroit has more than 7 ABs vs. Ventura. 2B Ian Kinsler is 4-6 (.667) with 2 RBIs. The team is hitting .359 against the right-hander with 0 HRs, 5 RBIs and 0 steals.
Kansas City at Detroit Betting Trends
Kansas City is 2-5 straight up in their last 7 games overall.
The Royals are 2-5 straight up in their last 7 road games.
The game total has gone under in 4 of the Royals last 5 games against the Tigers.
Detroit is 2-4 straight up in their last 6 home games against Kansas City.
The game total has gone under in 4 of Detroit’s last 6 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
DETROIT TIGERS
Miguel Cabrera 1B 15-Day Disabled List
Kyle Lobstein P 60-Day Disabled List
Joe Nathan P 60-Day Disabled List
Consensus Betting (Moneyline)
Kansas City: 75%
Detroit: 25%
Free MLB Pick
After winning their first two games to start their extended road trip the Royals have lost five of their last seven. In comparison the Tigers who were pre trade deadline sellers have won four of their last seven. Neither one of today’s pitchers is in good form right now with both having an ERA of over 6.00 in their last three starts, but Anibal Sanchez has the better batter vs. pitcher stats holding the KC active roster to a batting average of .203 versus the Tigers .359 against Yordana Ventura.
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