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Brendan O\u2019Sullivan dives into his pick and prediction for the Kansas City Royals vs. Seattle Mariners game on Friday, May 1.<\/p>\n
The Royals and Mariners play the first game of their three-game series on Friday, May 1.<\/p>\n
Seattle is a -143 moneyline favorite, while Kansas City is +119 on DraftKings Sportsbook<\/strong><\/a>. The game total is set at over\/under seven runs.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get into a pick and prediction for this Royals vs. Mariners game.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been an ugly season for the Royals, who boast one of the worst records in the majors thus far. They\u2019re journey continues with a challenging series against reigning American League runner-up Seattle. This three-game series will be on the road before Kansas City begins a stretch of AL Central matchups.<\/p>\n Cole Ragans is on the mound for Kansas City, in what has been a shaky season for the 28-year-old. He struck out 11 while allowing five hits and one earned run (a home run) across six frames in his last start. The outing prior was 4.1 innings, seven earned runs, four hits, eight walks and six strikeouts. Every other outing is a good performance; the ones in between are typically brutal.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re just looking at the pattern, this would Ragans\u2019 next bad start. That said, the Mariners are a below-average offense overall and have struggled against lefties this season. They\u2019re batting .204 against left-handed pitchers, which ranks 28th in the majors. Overall, the team is batting .234 and producing 4.19 runs per game.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Bryan Woo is starting for the Mariners. Although his season hasn\u2019t been superb, it\u2019s not inconsistent. He\u2019s capable of pitching deep into games, allowing a few runs in all but one of his outings. His most recent start is concerning, however. He allowed seven earned runs and nine hits in 3.0 innings. It\u2019s his only start under 5.0 innings and just the second start under 6.0 innings.<\/p>\n Although Ragans is coming off a good start, and Woo is coming off a bad start, I\u2019m expecting Woo to be the better pitcher tonight. No, this doesn\u2019t have to do with the aforementioned pattern, it\u2019s just belief that the better overall pitcher shows up at home.<\/p>\n Seattle\u2019s offense isn\u2019t great, especially against lefties, so I\u2019m sticking with Mariners moneyline rather than run line.<\/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 dives into his pick and prediction for the Kansas City Royals vs. Seattle Mariners game on Friday, May 1. The Royals and Mariners play the first game of their three-game series on Friday, May 1. Seattle is a -143 moneyline favorite, while Kansas City is +119 on DraftKings Sportsbook. The game total is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2398454,"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-2398453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kansas-City-Royals-vs-Seattle-Mariners-prediction-pick-for-MLB.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398453","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=2398453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398455,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398453\/revisions\/2398455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2398454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Royals vs. Mariners prediction, preview<\/h2>\n
Royals vs. Mariners Pick, Best Bet<\/h2>\n
Best Bet: Seattle Mariners ML (-143)<\/a><\/h3>\n