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.