Coming off their first series win since they took out the Angels nearly a month ago, the Royals come home from Russia to face the Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles own the second-best record (22-11) in the American League, a game off the pace set by the Houston Astros, despite their 3rd-order wins suggesting they’ve been over four wins more fortunate than their play on the field suggests they should have been.
The crew over at numberFire sent me their projections for the series. They read as follows:
In the first game of the series, we give the Royals a 51.