Kansas City at Texas

We got the "W" with the Royals last night and will back them again tonight. They lok to Brian Bannister who is 3-2 with a 2.48 ERA. He does have two straight losses but he's pitched well throughout. In his last game, a loss, he gave up just 4 hits and 2 runs in nearly seven innings. Kevin Millwood goes for Texas and he's off a terrible 5 run peformance in six innings Friday. He's never had much success against the Royals. So, we get a pretty even pitching matchup here although we give the edge to KC both in terms of starter and bullpen. Texas is just 4-8 at home averaging 4.5 runs per game and going against that, with a pitching advantage, spells value.