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The Royals made it five straight wins Tuesday night with a 5-2 victory over Texas, powered by Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s early homer and Bobby Witt Jr.\u2019s milestone 100th career blast in the eighth.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kansas City improved to 7-1 on its homestand and looks like a legitimate Wild Card threat as August winds down.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Rangers have dropped nine of their last 11 games and continue to look like a shell of last year\u2019s club, struggling to generate momentum on either side of the ball.<\/p>\n
On the hill, Kansas City sends Noah Cameron (7-5, 2.47 ERA) to the mound, a pitcher who has delivered six wins in his last seven starts and owns a 2.81 ERA at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Rangers counter with Kumar Rocker (4-5, 5.74 ERA), who is still working to prove himself at the big-league level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Odds via FanDuel Sportsbook<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n Run Line<\/strong><\/p>\n Moneyline<\/strong><\/p>\n Total<\/strong><\/p>\n Pasquantino has homered twice in the past five games and he\u2019s available at +480? Yes, please. He owns a .458 slugging percentage, and facing a rookie arm like Rocker in a tough road spot creates enough upside. His max exit velocity ranks within Statcast\u2019s top 8% while Rocker drags his feet to the mound with a 91.2 mph average \u2014\u00a0good for the bottom 8%. Rocker\u2019s expected contact numbers are icy blue across the board while Pasquantino has blasted 201 wRC+ and a .286\/.318\/.810 slash line amid the 7-1 homestand.<\/p>\n Rocker\u2019s call-up provides intrigue, but he faces a Royals lineup that\u2019s heating up in August, hitting .259 as a team with the top of their lineup producing reliably. Cameron will face him having dominated at Kauffman Stadium with a .214 opponents\u2019 average in home innings. Rangers\u2019 bats remain stagnant, hitting just .233 this year, the fifth-worst mark in baseball and having sunk to No. 25 overall in wRC+ (90). <\/p>\n I don\u2019t see how a rookie pitcher who\u2019s been hit hard for a bottom 6% rate (47.5) and sports a .507 xSLG can be the difference maker in a road matchup between two teams trending in completely opposite paths.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pick:<\/strong> Royals (-126 at FanDuel<\/a>)<\/p>\n Create a new FanDuel Sportsbook account, and you can get <\/u>$300 in bonus bets if you win your firs<\/strong><\/u><\/a>t $5 wager<\/strong><\/u>. Download the FanDuel <\/strong>app and deposit a minimum of $5 to claim your FanDuel Promo Code <\/u><\/a>today.<\/p>\n Odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.<\/em><\/p>\n If you or someone you know has a gambling problem and wants help, call 1-800-GAMBLER.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.si.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Royals made it five straight wins Tuesday night with a 5-2 victory over Texas, powered by Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s early homer and Bobby Witt Jr.\u2019s milestone 100th career blast in the eighth.\u00a0 Kansas City improved to 7-1 on its homestand and looks like a legitimate Wild Card threat as August winds down.\u00a0 The Rangers have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1971118,"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":[],"class_list":["post-1971117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755723937_Rangers-vs-Royals-Prediction-Odds-Probable-Pitchers-and-Prop-Bets.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971117","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=1971117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}