{"id":1960702,"date":"2025-08-14T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1960702"},"modified":"2025-08-14T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:18:26","slug":"royals-vs-white-sox-odds-tips-and-betting-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-vs-white-sox-odds-tips-and-betting-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals vs. White Sox odds, tips and betting trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Two clubs in the AL Central &#8212; the <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/chicago-white-sox\/228\" data-autotag=\"d5333560-8140-4679-b3e4-0675efb2456e\">Chicago White Sox<\/a> (44-77) and the <a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/kansas-city-royals\/231\" data-autotag=\"4e385f64-3a66-4395-b052-9f6495f4718b\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> (60-61) &#8212; play on Friday at 8:10 p.m. ET, at Kauffman Stadium.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>The White Sox are an underdog (+158 on the moneyline) when they take on the Royals (-188). The Kansas City Royals will hand the ball to Noah Cameron (6-5, 2.52 ERA), who is looking for win No. 7 on the season, and the White Sox will turn to Aaron Civale (3-7, 4.91 ERA).<\/p>\n<p>The Royals lost 8-7 to the Nationals Wednesday, with Carlos Estevez (one inning, giving up one earned run on two hits while striking out one) on the hook for the loss. Vinnie Pasquantino went 2 for 5 with a double, a home run and four RBIs to lead the Royals offensively in the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox were defeated by the Tigers 1-0 Wednesday. Curtis Mead went 1 for 3 in the defeat, while Martin Perez took the loss on the mound, throwing 3 1\/3 innings, giving up one earned run on three hits while striking out four.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>Here is everything you need to get ready for Friday&#8217;s Royals vs. White Sox action, including viewing options.<\/p>\n<h2>Kansas City Royals vs. Chicago White Sox odds, line and spread<\/h2>\n<p><i>MLB odds courtesy of <b><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mediaserver.betmgmpartners.com\/renderBanner.do?zoneId=1689650\" target=\"_blank\">BetMGM Sportsbook<\/a><\/b>. Odds updated Thursday at 3:18 p.m. ET. For a full list of sports betting odds, access <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY Sports Betting Scores Odds Hub<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Favorite:<\/b> Royals (-188, bet $188 to win $100)<\/li>\n<li><b>Underdog:<\/b> White Sox (+158, bet $100 to win $158)<\/li>\n<li><b>Over\/under:<\/b> 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Royals vs. White Sox: Game time and live stream info<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Game day:<\/strong> Friday, August 15, 2025<\/li>\n<li><strong>Game time:<\/strong> 8:10 p.m. ET<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Kansas City, Missouri<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stadium:<\/strong> Kauffman Stadium<\/li>\n<li><strong>TV channel:<\/strong> FDSKC and CHSN<\/li>\n<li><strong>Live stream:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/welcome?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=dataskrive&amp;subId2=MLB\" target=\"_blank\">Watch LIVE with Fubo!<\/a> <i>(Regional restrictions may apply)<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p><span class=\"marker\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/welcome?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=dataskrive&amp;subId2=MLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch Royals vs. White Sox on Fubo!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<h2>Royals stats and trends<\/h2>\n<h3>Royals betting records<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Royals have won 27, or 56.2%, of the 48 games they&#8217;ve played as favorites this season.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City is undefeated in nine games this season when favored by -188 or more on the moneyline.<\/li>\n<li>The moneyline for this contest implies a 65.3% chance of a victory for the Royals.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City and its opponents have hit the over in 53 of its 121 games with a total this season.<\/li>\n<li>The Royals are 63-58-0 against the spread in their 121 chances this season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Noah Cameron (Royals probable starter)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cameron gets the start for the Royals, his 17th of the season. He is 6-5 with a 2.52 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 93 2\/3 innings pitched.<\/li>\n<li>In his last time out on Saturday against the Minnesota Twins, the left-hander tossed 5 2\/3 scoreless innings while surrendering six hits.<\/li>\n<li>The 26-year-old has amassed an ERA of 2.52, with 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 16 games this season. Opposing hitters have a .205 batting average against him.<\/li>\n<li>Cameron is trying to secure his eighth quality start of the season.<\/li>\n<li>Cameron will try to build upon a seven-game streak of lasting five or more innings (he&#8217;s averaging 5.8 innings per appearance).<\/li>\n<li>In seven of his 16 total appearances this season he has not surrendered an earned run.<\/li>\n<li>The opposing White Sox offense has a collective .228 batting average, and is 29th in the league with 911 total hits and 27th in MLB play with 462 runs scored. It has the 29th-ranked slugging percentage (.368) and ranks 23rd in home runs (118) in all of MLB.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Royals batting stats<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Royals&#8217; 108 home runs rank 28th in MLB this season.<\/li>\n<li>Hitters for Kansas City have combined for a team rank of 23rd in the majors with a .387 team slugging percentage.<\/li>\n<li>The Royals&#8217; .245 batting average ranks 17th in the league this season.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City has scored the third-fewest runs in the majors this season with just 456 (3.8 per game).<\/li>\n<li>The Royals have an on-base percentage of .304 this season, which ranks 24th in the league.<\/li>\n<li>Kansas City has shown patience at the plate this season with the second-best rate of strikeouts per game (6.9) among MLB offenses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<h2>White Sox stats and trends<\/h2>\n<h3>White Sox betting records<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The White Sox have been chosen as underdogs in 119 games this year and have walked away with the win 43 times (36.1%) in those games.<\/li>\n<li>This year, Chicago has won 14 of 53 games when listed as at least +158 or worse on the moneyline.<\/li>\n<li>The moneyline set for this matchup implies the White Sox have a 38.8% chance of walking away with the win.<\/li>\n<li>Chicago&#8217;s games have gone over the total in 53 of its 121 opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>In 121 games with a line this season, the White Sox have a mark of 70-51-0 against the spread.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<h3>Aaron Civale (White Sox probable starter)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Civale (3-7 with a 4.91 ERA and 62 strikeouts in 73 1\/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the White Sox, his 16th of the season.<\/li>\n<li>In his last appearance on Friday against the Cleveland Guardians, the right-hander went 3 1\/3 innings, allowing nine earned runs while surrendering eight hits.<\/li>\n<li>The 30-year-old has an ERA of 4.91, with 7.6 strikeouts per nine innings in 15 games this season. Opponents are hitting .251 against him.<\/li>\n<li>Civale is trying to collect his third quality start of the year in this outing.<\/li>\n<li>Civale has pitched five or more innings in a game nine times this year heading into this outing.<\/li>\n<li>In three of his 15 total appearances this season he has not allowed an earned run.<\/li>\n<li>The opposing Royals offense has a collective .245 batting average, and is 18th in the league with 995 total hits and 28th in MLB play with 456 runs scored. They have the 23rd-ranked slugging percentage (.387) and are 28th in all of MLB with 108 home runs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<h3>White Sox batting stats<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The White Sox rank 23rd in MLB action with 118 total home runs.<\/li>\n<li>So far this year, Chicago has the second-lowest slugging percentage in the majors (.368).<\/li>\n<li>The White Sox have the second-worst batting average in the majors (.228).<\/li>\n<li>Chicago is the fourth-lowest scoring team in MLB play averaging 3.8 runs per game (462 total).<\/li>\n<li>The White Sox are 29th in the majors with a .299 on-base percentage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"marker\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fubo.tv\/welcome?irad=343747&amp;irmp=1205322&amp;subId1=Dataskrive&amp;subId2=MLB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the MLB on Fubo!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2025-08-14 19:18:20 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2025-08-14 19:18:20 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sportsbookwire.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two clubs in the AL Central &#8212; the Chicago White Sox (44-77) and the Kansas City Royals (60-61) &#8212; play on Friday at 8:10 p.m. ET, at Kauffman Stadium. The White Sox are an underdog (+158 on the moneyline) when they take on the Royals (-188). The Kansas City Royals will hand the ball to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1960703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[319696,344507,39915,28769,194083,21849,317361,345186,308583,308694,316608,22036,345184,310232,310231,310236,43013,340353,345191,23427,345193,323174,345187,240269,305252,270959,42645,22304,43627,305244,28848,345192,345188,25866,345182,22773,325433,211924,21738,310233,239343,239453,265640,305243,345189,27155,319706,52779,345183,22505,319717,21848,308280,323180,42570,319707,305245,345190,239344,345185,102808,316491,323173],"class_list":["post-1960702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-aaron","tag-aaron-civale","tag-affiliate","tag-and","tag-autopilot","tag-baseball","tag-betting","tag-carlos","tag-carlos-estevez","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-city","tag-civale","tag-commerce","tag-contains","tag-contains-commerce-or-affiliate-content","tag-content","tag-curtis","tag-curtis-mead","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-disclaimer","tag-estevez","tag-exclude","tag-exclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","tag-exclude-social-autopilot","tag-from","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-logic","tag-martin","tag-martin-perez","tag-mead","tag-mlb","tag-mls","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-or","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-pasquantino","tag-paywall","tag-perez","tag-royals","tag-scores","tag-social","tag-sox","tag-sport","tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","tag-sports","tag-sports-betting","tag-sports-betting-widget-and-disclaimer","tag-sports-news","tag-statistics","tag-testing","tag-tigers","tag-u0026","tag-vinnie","tag-vinnie-pasquantino","tag-white","tag-widget"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Royals-vs-White-Sox-odds-tips-and-betting-trends.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}