Kansas City Royals vs Boston Red Sox Prediction, 8/8/2023 MLB Picks, Best Bets & Odds

Game: Kansas City Royals vs Boston Red Sox

Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Location: Fenway Park in Boston, MA

TV: NESN

The Kansas City Royals (36-77) are headed to Fenway Park on Tuesday where they will play the Boston Red Sox (57-54). The pitchers who are expected to start are Brady Singer and Kutter Crawford.

Kansas City has a slugging percentage of .386 and have been rung up 980 times, while drawing a walk on 277 occasions. They have 418 runs batted in and 891 base knocks this season, while their batting average is .238. The Royals have tallied 182 doubles as a unit and have smacked 104 balls out of the park. They have accounted for 436 runs scored while holding a team on-base percentage of .297. As a team, the Kansas City Royals are scoring 3.9 runs per contest, which has them at 29th in baseball.

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They have accrued a K/BB ratio of 2.22 and the pitching staff has recorded a WHIP of 1.42. Royals pitchers have conceded 135 long balls in addition to 594 runs in total (28th in the league). Kansas City has conceded 991 hits (9.1 per 9 innings) and 561 earned runs. The Royals hold a team ERA of 5.18 over the course of the season (28th in baseball), and the staff has rung up 865 hitters. They have walked 389 players from the other team and their FIP sits at 4.63 as a squad on the season.

Royals pitchers have entered the contest with runners on 73 times and also have had 93 appearances in high leverage situations. The relievers have notched 43 holds this year (28th in baseball). The Royals bullpen have a save percentage of 50.0% and has stepped onto the mound in 77 save situations. They have recorded 17 saves over the course of the season and have missed out on 17 of 34 save chances. The relief pitchers have inherited 119 runners this season and 39.5% of those runners ended up scoring. The Royals have sent 366 relief pitchers to the mound on the year.

The Kansas City Royals have earned a total of 2,926 putouts this season, as well as 954 assists and 50 errors. Their fielding percentage is holding steady at .987 which has them ranked 10th in the majors, and have accumulated 84 double plays. The Royals have turned 68.5% of balls in play into outs out of their 8,778 innings on the diamond, which ranks them 21st in professional baseball.

Singer has taken the ball for 467 innings and has totaled 446 K's so far in his pro baseball career. Singer (26-28 career win-loss mark) holds a FIP of 3.87 while he has gone up against 1,999 batters during his time in the majors. His earned run average is 4.29 (223 ER's allowed) and he has a career WHIP of 1.321. He has surrendered 469 hits (9.0 hits per 9 innings) and has 149 walks.

Boston has accounted for 124 home runs on the season as well as 519 runs batted in. They have 241 doubles, while taking a walk 337 times and earning 542 runs. The Boston Red Sox have tallied a team on-base percentage of .330 and a team batting average of .263 so far this season. The Red Sox have a team slugging percentage of .433 and they tally 4.93 runs per contest (7th in the league). They have been called out on strikes on 900 occasions (23rd in the league) and have earned a total of 990 hits.

The Boston pitching staff have allowed 504 runs on the year while having an ERA of 4.30 (464 earned runs yielded). They have surrendered 141 dingers and they allow 4.67 runs per 9 innings (17th in the league). The Red Sox hold a team WHIP of 1.308 and have a FIP of 4.35 as a unit on the season. They currently have a strikeout to walk ratio of 8.80 (945 strikeouts against 316 bases on balls). They are sitting at 23rd in baseball as a pitching staff in total hits relinquished with 954.

Boston has called on relievers to step onto the mound in 40 save chances and they have walked away with 31 saves. They are currently ranked 1st in baseball with a save percentage of 77.5%, and they have dispatched 342 relievers to the hill on the season. Their relievers have taken the field 95 times in high leverage situations and also on 77 occasions with base runners. Boston relief pitchers have an inherited score rate of 29.1% out of their 117 inherited base runners. With 89 save situations, the Red Sox have accumulated 49 holds in addition to 9 blown saves.

In 8,739 innings played, the Red Sox have earned a defensive efficiency of 67.9% (27th in MLB). The Boston Red Sox have gotten 100 double plays and own a fielding percentage of .981 (30th in professional baseball). The Red Sox have recorded 977 assists, 77 errors and have earned a total of 2,913 putouts for the year.

Crawford (8-12 career record) is the owner of a 4.74 ERA and has conceded 8.7 hits per nine innings. His K/BB ratio is 3.20 and he has gone up against 676 opposing hitters during his career. He has conceded a total of 85 ER's while holding a WHIP of 1.277 and being the owner of a FIP of 4.2. So far in his career, Crawford has given up 156 base knocks while tallying 160 K's in 161 frames.

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Tony Sink's Pick: Take Kansas City

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