Kansas City may be sitting in third place in the AL Central, but they are actually the second best home team in baseball (behind the Phillies) with a 30-17 mark at Kauffman Stadium. That’s a great stat for Royals fans, but visiting Tampa Bay doesn’t care as they took the series opener 5-1 on Tuesday night. Offshore oddsmakers have the line very close again for Wednesday’s game two matchup, is this where KC evens up the series? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be fair the Royals were maybe due for a letdown game on Tuesday after taking three of four over the weekend from the first place Guardians, who are 23 games over .500 on the season. An off day on Monday and a 2-1\/2 hour rain delay didn’t help with KC’s momentum – but you also have to admit that Tampa Bay was in the same situation and scored 4 runs after the pause for Mother Nature. Richie Palacios<\/strong> led the Rays offense<\/a> with a 3-4 night while Brandon Lowe<\/strong> hit his 6th home run of the year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n