hi it's miton picd dogs.com here with your free pick in the Guardians versus Royals game one of their double header on Monday August 26 2024 if you like all the free picks we do at Pi dogs you'll love our premium picks our Best Bets just go to piic dogs.com click on the premium pick St got a link in the description as well if you make bigger bets looking for VIP style service we offer that too that's for people that bet like a thousand or more per game just text the number that you see on the screen those aren't available on the that you just got a text but let's get to it we've got the Guardians taking on the Royals it's game one of a double header in Cleveland and you know the thing is is that this race in the American League Central has all of a sudden got very very tight The Royals are right there and uh with a strong performance in this series and really a strong performance today it could get really tight in this American League Central of course the Guardians have led from the start while the Royals you know a team that many people have been waiting to Fall by the way side um really have just continued to hang in there despite you know some deficiencies in some areas and really didn't really address too many of those if any at all at the trade deadline you know the Guardians as a team really not hitting the baseball all that well but the thing is they seem to make the most of it what with when they do make their hits they seem to be able to put those together Cole Reagans gets the ball in this one for the for the Royals he's been solid for the most part this season seon but he did get hit pretty hard last time out against the Angels allowing five runs four of those were earned one of and uh one came via the Home Run he did strike out nine batters over over the five innings that he's pitched and he's had a pretty solid season when you look at those strikeout numbers of 174 in just 147 in a third Innings pitch he's also only given up 13 home runs he's walked 47 batters over his last three starts Reagan has a 2.95 erra but the thing about this Guardians team is and like I said it's like a team that um just continues to say I can right I mean they just continue to get it done and when you look at their overall hitting numbers just nothing overly jumps off the page at you but what does jump off the page at you though is that if you bet on the Guardians every single game this season on the money line you're up you're if you bet a hundred bucks on them you're up 1,781 bucks meanwhile if you bet on the Royals 100 bucks every game you're up 1,66 bucks so both these teams have gotten it done gotten it done on the cheap for us you know in the numbers that we care about the most we look at the way the uh you know the the Guardians when we we see you know they they're averaging of over five runs per game and giving up about three and three quarters same thing for the uh for the Royals just the Guardians numbers just slightly better in that aspect overall I think when we look at this particular game and we look at the way that it's going it just seems to me that while the Royals might have some more impressive offensive numbers um like overall you know when we look at the Royals team batting average 249 to the Guardians at 235 we look at even the last 10 games 250 to 238 I just still think the Guardians are just a better situational hitting team and against these game in these games like this this is why they have had the lead all the way they just always seem to find a way and I think they find a way here as well I'm going to take the Guardians and that's going to be my free pick of course while you're doing your picks putting your bets in use our free betting tools at sportschatplace.com 100% free and they'll help put you on the most favorable bets on the board today