Pittsburgh Pirates (70-76) vs Kansas City Royals (80-67)
Game Info: Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 1:35 pm (PNC Park)
The Line: Betting Odds: Pittsburgh Pirates -110 / Kansas City Royals -102 — Over/Under:
The Kansas City Royals and the Pittsburgh Pirates meet Sunday in MLB action from PNC Park. Here’s a Kansas City Royals vs Pittsburgh Pirates prediction. This will be the final installment in a three-game series. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best Royals vs Pirates pick. We will examine:
The Kansas City Royals recent form and player performance
The Pittsburgh Pirates recent form and player performance
Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Kansas City Royals
Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Pittsburgh Pirates
Recent betting trends in games played between the Royals and Pirates
A summary that ties it all together and produces a favorable betting outcome for the Royals vs Pirates game
Kansas City Royals Betting Preview
This past week the Royals took on the New York Yankees. After a split in the first pair, KC lost 4-3 on Wednesday. The Royals came back with a win over Pittsburgh 8-3 in the opener, then on Saturday posted another victory 5-1. Starter Michael Wacha finished with 5.0 innings and one earned run.
As starter for Sunday the Royals will go with Brady Singer. So far Singer is 9-10 with a 3.42 ERA in 29 starts. Over his 124 career games (121 starts) Singer is 36-41 with a 4.22 ERA.
Pittsburgh Pirates Betting Preview
Over on the Pirates’ side, they were able to sweep the Miami Marlins in their last series with wins 3-2, 6-4 and 3-1. On Saturday Pittsburgh posted nine team hits but could only muster the one run in the defeat.
Starter for Sunday will be Jared Jones. This year Jones is 6-7 with a 3.82 ERA over the first 19 starts of his MLB career.
Total Runs Facts
- Four of the Royals’ last five games against National League opponents have gone OVER the total runs line.
- Each of the Pirates’ last three day games against American League opponents have gone UNDER the total runs line.
- The ‘Inning 1 OVER 0.5 runs’ market has hit in each of the Pirates’ last three day games.
- The ‘Inning 1 UNDER 0.5 runs’ market has hit in each of the Royals’ last five Sunday day games.
Pittsburgh Pirates Player Prop Facts
- Oneil Cruz has recorded a Double in three of the Pirates’ last four games at PNC Park against opponents that held a winning record.
- Bryan Reynolds has recorded at least one hit in each of the Pirates’ last 13 games at PNC Park against AL Central opponents that held a winning record.
- Bryan Reynolds has recorded two or more total bases in each of the Pirates’ last 12 games at PNC Park against AL Central opponents that held a winning record.
- Oneil Cruz has recorded an RBI in each of his last six home appearances.
- Isiah Kiner-Falefa has recorded a Single in each of his last six appearances against AL Central opponents.
- Andrew McCutchen has hit a home run in three of his last five home appearances after playing the previous day.
- Jared Triolo has scored at least one run in each of his last four appearances after playing the previous day.
Kansas City Royals Player Prop Facts
- Brady Singer has recorded six or more strikeouts in each of his last six Sunday day appearances against teams that held a losing record.
- Bobby Witt Jr. has hit a home run in two of the Royals’ last three games against the Pirates.
- Bobby Witt Jr. has scored at least one run in seven of the Royals’ last eight day games against opponents that held a losing record.
- Brady Singer has recorded a win in five of his last six appearances against NL opponents that held a losing record.
- Kyle Isbel has recorded a Double in four of his last five appearances against opponents that held a losing record.
- Vinnie Pasquantino has recorded at least one hit in each of his 15 previous road appearances against NL opponents that held a losing record.
- Vinnie Pasquantino has recorded at least one total base in each of his 15 previous road appearances against NL opponents that held a losing record.
- Vinnie Pasquantino has recorded at least one RBI in each of his last five road appearances against NL Central opponents.
- Vinnie Pasquantino has recorded at least one Single in each of his last six road appearances against opponents that held a losing record.
Kansas City Royals vs Pittsburgh Pirates Prediction
I’ll try the Royals here. Singer is just 0-1 over his last three starts. That said he hasn’t been pitching too badly. In that time Singer has seven total earned runs in 16.2 innings. As for Jones, he’s given up five earned over his last two starts in 13.1 innings of work.
On Saturday the Royals had a couple of big offensive performances (specifically Bobby Witt’s three RBI) but a handful of bats were fairly quiet otherwise in the victory. Still, I like KC to finish off the sweep with a Sunday win.