Chicago White Sox vs Kansas City Royals Prediction 4-17-24 Picks

The Kansas City Royals and the Chicago White Sox meet Wednesday in MLB doubleheader action from Guaranteed Rate Field. Here’s a Royals vs White Sox prediction. We will look at this from a betting perspective and determine the best bets for the games. We will examine:

• The Kansas City Royals recent form and player performance
• The Chicago White Sox recent form and player performance
• Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Kansas City Royals
• Recent betting trends and streaks involving the Chicago White Sox
• Recent betting trends in games played between the Royals and White Sox
• A summary that ties it all together and produces a favorable betting outcome for the Royals vs White Sox game

Kansas City Royals Betting Preview

The Royals played a weekend series versus the New York Mets and were only able to win one of the three games. Kansas City came back for a 2-0 win over the White Sox on Monday, though. In game two we had a rainout. That matchup will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday.

For game one Wednesday the Royals’ starting pitcher will be Brady Singer. This year Singer is 2-0 with a 0.98 ERA and 18 Ks. In the game two starting pitcher slot the Royals will send out Michael Wacha. Over his three starts this year Wacha is 1-1 with a 4.00 ERA and 17 strikeouts in 18.0 innings.

Chicago White Sox Betting Preview

Over on the White Sox’ side, they were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in their weekend series before the Monday loss. In that game one defeat, Chicago posted just four team hits. Two of them came from Andrew Benintendi. Starter Nick Nastrini ended up with 5.0 innings, two earned runs, three hits and two walks.

The Sox will send out Jonathan Cannon as starter in game one Wednesday. He’ll be making his debut here. It’ll be Erick Fedde in the game two starting pitcher role. Across his three starts so far Fedde has a 4.30 ERA without a decision and 14 Ks in 14.2 frames.

Chicago White Sox Team Facts

• The White Sox have lost each of their last eight day games following a loss.
• The road team has covered the run line in each of the White Sox’s last six games.
• The White Sox have led after 7 innings in each of their last five day games against the Royals at Guaranteed Rate Field.
• The White Sox have trailed after 3 innings in each of their last three home day games.
• The White Sox have led after 5 innings in each of their last five day games against the Royals at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Kansas City Royals Team Facts

• The Royals have won each of their last eight games against American League opponents.
• The Royals have failed to cover the run line in each of their last 16 Wednesday day road games against AL Central opponents.
• The Royals have trailed after 5 innings in each of their last five day games at Guaranteed Rate Field against American League opponents.
• The ‘Inning 1 UNDER 0.5 runs’ market has hit in each of the Royals’ last three games as favorites against AL Central opponents.
• The Royals have trailed after 7 innings in each of their last five day games at Guaranteed Rate Field against AL Central opponents.

Royals vs White Sox Prediction

I’ll take the Royals in game one. Singer is humming along quite well so far in his three starts. He’s got two earned runs on seven hits and three walks over his last 11.1 innings of work, and kicked things off with a shutout 7.0-inning performance in a win over the Twins in his season debut.

I’ll lean toward the Royals in game two as well. Wacha needs a good bounce-back effort after a rough showing versus the Mets in his last start, though. In that one Wacha put up 6.0 innings with five earned on 10 hits and two walks. As for Fedde, he gave up four earned on four hits and three walks in 5.0 frames his last time out versus the Guardians. Should be a pretty good matchup if both guys are on point.