This is an 8* MID-CHALK CHOKE-OUT on the Kansas City Royals.

The Red Sox have won three straight, but I think will run into a brick wall today facing Royals' red hot starter Johnny Cueto (2-1, 1.80 ERA) who will look to get his team back into the win column after it lost for the first time in five games in the opener of this three-game set. Cueto has been great since coming over to the Royals, he's pitched into at least the sixth inning in all four of his outings since being acquired, most recently he'd give up one run over eight innings in a 9-4 win over the Angels on Friday. Boston has been rolling, but we believe it will be in tough here in having to hand the ball to Henry Owens (1-1, 6.19 ERA), who comes in after getting shelled for seven runs vs. the Mariners on Saturday. We base our MLB picks almost primarily on the starting pitching and in our professional opinion, Cueto and the ROYALS have enough significant factors working in their favor to pull the trigger on this one.

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