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Brendan O\u2019Sullivan provides his prediction and best bet for Friday\u2019s Kansas City Royals vs. Athletics matchup.<\/p>\n
The Athletics and Royals begin a three-game series to wrap up their regular seasons. Both teams are eliminated from the playoffs, so these games are inconsequential.<\/p>\n
Kansas City is a -126 favorite, while the Athletics are +104 on DraftKings Sportsbook<\/a><\/strong>. The game total is set at over\/under 10.5 runs.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s my prediction and pick for Friday\u2019s Royals vs. Athletics matchup.<\/p>\n Amid tense postseason pushes, there\u2019s always a couple games that are stress free. That\u2019ll be the entire Royals vs. Athletics series during the final weekend of regular season baseball.<\/p>\n While the game doesn\u2019t impact playoff seeding, it still provides betting opportunities.<\/p>\n Noah Cameron is on the mound for the Royals. He has a 2.90 ERA across 23 starts and 133.2 innings this season. It\u2019s an impressive rookie season, and he\u2019ll be looking to put a bow on it with his final start tonight.<\/p>\n He\u2019s been effective in his past few games, too. He pitched 6.2, 7.0 and 7.0 innings in his three latest games. He allowed two earned runs in the seven-inning outings and one earned in the 6.2-inning game.<\/p>\n These weren\u2019t bad teams either. Cameron did this against the Blue Jays, Phillies and Guardians. He\u2019s more than capable of finishing off the season strong against the Athletics.<\/p>\n Mason Barnett is starting for the Athletics. He\u2019s also in his rookie season, but only completed 16.2 innings across four starts. His 7.56 ERA leaves a lot to be desired, but it is a small sample size.<\/p>\n Barnett hasn\u2019t allowed fewer than three earned runs, and has pitched as deep as five innings once.<\/p>\n In a battle of two rookie pitchers, I\u2019m taking the better one to lead his team to victory.<\/p>\n Cameron has been reliable over a long stretch this season, including against top teams. Barnett hasn\u2019t, which makes this an easy choice for Kansas City moneyline<\/a>.<\/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 dknetwork.draftkings.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brendan O\u2019Sullivan provides his prediction and best bet for Friday\u2019s Kansas City Royals vs. Athletics matchup. The Athletics and Royals begin a three-game series to wrap up their regular seasons. Both teams are eliminated from the playoffs, so these games are inconsequential. Kansas City is a -126 favorite, while the Athletics are +104 on DraftKings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2052919,"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-2052918","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\/09\/Kansas-City-Royals-vs-Athletics-prediction-pick-for-Friday-92625.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052918","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=2052918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Royals vs. Athletics prediction<\/h2>\n
Royals vs. Athletics pick, best bet<\/h2>\n
Best Bets: Royals moneyline (-126)<\/a><\/h3>\n