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Brendan O\u2019Sullivan dives into his pick and prediction for the Kansas City Royals vs. St. Louis Cardinals game on Saturday, May 16.<\/p>\n
The Royals and Cardinals play the second game of their three-game series on Saturday, May 16.<\/p>\n
St. Louis is a -118 moneyline favorite, while Kansas City is -102 on DraftKings Sportsbook<\/strong><\/a>. The game total is set at over\/under nine runs.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get into a pick and prediction for this Royals vs. Cardinals game.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been an ugly stretch for the Royals, who enter the weekend series in last place in the AL Central. They lost four straight, including a sweep against the White Sox. The road trip continues with an interleague matchup against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n Noah Cameron is on the mound for the second game of the series on Saturday. After two great starts to begin the season, Cameron has collapsed into an unreliable starting pitcher. He\u2019s allowed at least three earned runs in five straight outings, most of which are against weak offenses (Tigers, Angels, Athletics, White Sox, Yankees). Aside from the Yankees, the Cardinals are the second best run-producing team in this group.<\/p>\n St. Louis hasn\u2019t been consistent lately, however. Following a six-game win streak, the team is 5-5 over the last 10 games. Returning home will be beneficial for the club, although they\u2019ve played better on the road this season. Small sample sizes can misconstrue stats.<\/p>\n Kyle Leahy is making his first starting following a scoreless five-inning performance against the Padres. He\u2019s allowed one earned run across his last two starts (10.1 innings). His entire season hasn\u2019t been as great, though. He has a 4.31 ERA, which was 5.52 before his last two starts. Leahy allowed at least two earned runs in his first six starts.<\/p>\n The Cardinals are banking on Leahy continuing his good performances. If he can limit the Royals to two or fewer runs, that should be enough for the Cardinals to win. <\/p>\n St. Louis\u2019 offense will have a great day against Cameron. The Cardinals just need to limit the damage on the other end.<\/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. St. Louis Cardinals game on Saturday, May 16. The Royals and Cardinals play the second game of their three-game series on Saturday, May 16. St. Louis is a -118 moneyline favorite, while Kansas City is -102 on DraftKings Sportsbook. The game […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2419109,"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-2419108","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\/1778903722_Kansas-City-Royals-vs-St-Louis-Cardinals-prediction-pick-for.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419108","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=2419108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2419110,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419108\/revisions\/2419110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2419109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Royals vs. Cardinals prediction, preview<\/h2>\n
Royals vs. Cardinals Pick, Best Bet<\/h2>\n
Best Bet: St. Louis Cardinals ML (-118)<\/a><\/h3>\n