Baltimore Orioles at Kansas City Royals Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 77-49 Kansas City Royals play host to the 63-63 Baltimore Orioles in MLB action on the grass of Kauffman Stadium, August 27, 2015. The first pitch is scheduled for 2:10PM ET.
Betting Odds
Moneyline: Orioles: +121/Royals -131
O/U Total: 8
Pitching Matchup
Chris Tillman (R) W/L 9-8 WHIP 1.32 ERA 4.51
Yordano Ventura (R) W/L 8-7 WHIP 1.30 ERA 4.64
Baltimore defeated Kansas City 8-5 on Wednesday. The victory ended a 6-game losing streak for the Orioles. They are 24-37 away from home in 2015. The Royals are 2-1 on their homestand and 7-3 in their last 10 games. They are 44-21 at home this year.
KC leads the season series 2-1 and have an 8-1 edge in the last 9 matchups between these two teams.
Tillman was a 3-2 loser to Minnesota in his last start, ending a personal 12-game unbeaten run. He went 6.2 innings, yielded all 3 runs and struck out 6 for his 12th Q start of the year.
Ventura was a 6-3 winner at Boston in his last outing. He pitched 6 innings, allowed 1 run and fanned 6 for his 8th Q start of the season.
No Baltimore hitter has more than 7 ABs against Ventura. C Matt Wieters is 2-4 (.500) while IF Ryan Flaherty is 2-6 (.333). 3B Manny Machado is 1-3 (.333) while the trio of 2B Jonathan Schoop, OF Adam Jones and 1B Chris Davis are a combined 0-14 against the right-hander.
Royals DH Kendrys Morales is 5-9 (.556) against Tillman with an RBI while 3B Mike Moustakas is 3-8 (.375) with a HR and 2 RBIs. SS Alcides Escobar is 4-11 (.364) against the right-hander while C Drew Butera is 1-3 with a pair of RBIs.
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Baltimore at Kansas City Betting Trends
Baltimore is 1-6 straight up in their last 7 games overall.
The Orioles are 1-8 straight up in their last 9 games against Kansas City.
The game total has gone under in 15 of Baltimore’s last 22 games against Kansas City.
The Royals are 5-1 straight up in their last 6 home games.
Kansas City is 4-1 straight up in their last 5 games overall.
Injury Report
BALTIMORE ORIOLES
Steve Clevenger C Paternity Leave List
J.J. Hardy SS 15-Day Disabled List
Chaz Roe P 15-Day Disabled List
Mike Wright P 15-Day Disabled List
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
Consensus Pick (Moneyline)
Baltimore: 19%
Kansas City: 81%
Free MLB Pick
The Orioles’ Chris Tillman has back to back Q starts, but he’s had his struggles on the road with a 5.05 earned run average. He hasn’t pitched against the Royals since last season when he was lit up for five runs in 4 1/3 innings. Ventura is currently pitching the best he all season with three consecutive Q starts. He has very good historical stats against the Baltimore roster with the batters hitting a lifetime .185 in 28 plate appearances. We don’t normally lay this much money but we have on paper the perceived pitching advantage and note that the Orioles are 13 games under .500 on the road.
Take the Kansas City Royals -131 @ GTBets
