Twins vs. Royals: Crucial AL Central Matchup Tonight
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00:00After splitting a four-game set this weekend against divisional
00:06foe, the Twins lost their final two games to Cleveland.
00:10Another division arrival to start off this week for the
00:13Twins against the Kansas City Royals. Minnesota a minus 162
00:18favorite. A total of eight tonight at Target Field in the
00:21Twin Cities. Pablo Lopez gets to start for Minnesota. On the
00:25other side for Kansas City, it's Brady Singer. BRS only a
00:29half game separates these two teams and where they stand in
00:33those standings. Cleveland has a three and a half game lead
00:36for the top spot in the American League Central over
00:38Minnesota, who's a half game in front of KC, but also spot
00:43two and three in the American League wildcard race. The Twins
00:46a half game up over the Royals. An important midweek set gets
00:50underway tonight. That is a big midweek game
00:55set that's going to shape up. But by the way, when you take
00:57a look at the Pablo Lopez side of things, his ERA over the
01:00past 60 days, isn't that bad at 3.88, but one of the better
01:03X-Fit minus numbers of those past 60 days. So analytically,
01:06he's the better pitcher than Brady Singer is on the Mount
01:08today, but also both of these lineups are very good. So if
01:12we're lining up and saying, all right, 78 degrees in Minneapolis,
01:14that's very good temperatures for them. Wind slightly blowing
01:17out to left field. That total that I'm looking at for these
01:20two good pitchers. I wonder if that sticks tonight and also
01:22is it more of a playoff atmosphere because of how close
01:24these two teams are at this point. If I do think the better
01:27pitcher is Lopez, maybe at a minus 125 minus 135 price point
01:32would make sense that price points too high for me to take
01:35the Minnesota Twins. I probably looking more towards the
01:37underdog in this environment. But as I said, the two lineups
01:40do present themselves. Well, but both of these pictures also
01:43probably a slight slight lean to the under. I don't know if
01:46we get nine runs, but they should approach that seven or
01:48eight range at that point. But for me that plus 128 that sticks
01:52out more than the minus 152 price. If I think we're basically
01:55in a coin flip type of an environment with maybe just home
01:58field advantage for Minnesota. I probably would lean on the
02:00Kansas City Royals in this spot here.