hi it's Mitch from piic doogs dcom here with your free picking the Royals versus Twins Major League Baseball matchup on Sunday September 8th 2024 if you like all the free picks we do at pic dogs you'll love our premium picks our Best Bets just go to piic dogs.com click on the premium picks tab I've also got a link directly below this video in the description if you make bigger bets you know and uh you have bank roll like $10,000 or more looking for a VIP customade style service we offer this as well you just got to text the number you see on the screen but uh certainly not for everyone but if that's for you textt that number but let's get to it we got the twins taking on the Royals of course two teams that if the season ended today these guys would both be in the American League playoffs and you know the thing is is even with all the Chasers the Mariners the Red Sox the Tigers it doesn't seem like anyone is gaining ground on them at all and you know while they are basically tied in the standings in you know coming into this one the Royals have played one more game than the twins so uh certainly keep that in mind but of course the only games that matter in in at this point are the ones in the Lost column because of course those are the games that you can't control them control yourself in this one we've got uh Michael Waka on the mound for the Royals it is Simeon Woods Richardson on the mount for the twins Waka has been very good this season you know he certainly had that blowup one game back that was against the guardians but last time out he bounced back with just allowing just two runs the problem is the uh the the Royals lost both those games and you know they really needed both of them in the way the uh standings are working out they had a shot at the uh at the N at the American League Central title but um you know not going to happen for the season waters's got a 3.50 erra 16 home runs allowed 26 uh 123 strikeouts and 39 walks um over his last three starts he's got a 4.76 erra for the for the uh for the twins it's Simeon Woods Richardson and what we've seen from him is that he's just not a guy that goes very deep into games you know and he's gotten less and less effective kind of as The Season's gone on last time out against the Rays the twins did win the game but Richardson allowed three runs and he only lasted three and two-thirds Innings prior to that he last only four and two3 in a game that they lost to the Atlanta Braves so Woods Richardson has decent stuff and you can see that by his 3.95 season erra 14 home runs allowed 104 strikeouts and 120 and 2/3 Innings of work but the thing is is that like I said he can't go all that deep into game so he definitely put some pressure on that twins Bullpen he's got a 5.40 erra over his last three starts look at the way these teams are hitting the baseball coming into this particular game and uh both these pitches being right-handed the Royals hitting just 209 versus righties while the twins hitting 223 both the bullpens have been absolutely terrible recently with the twins at a 5.5 8 ra over their last 10 games for the pen while the Royals at 5.74 I think you know both these teams certainly have their holes I think both these teams will be playoff teams when all is said and done at least the way that it's shaking out at this point but in this particular game I'm going to go with the home team the Kansas City Royals 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 they're 100% free and they'll help put you on the most favorable bets on the board today