Cardinals Vs Royals: MLB Betting Odds, Trends & Stats – August 13, 2021

The St. Louis Cardinals (58-56) and Kansas City Royals (49-64) meet on Friday to start a three-game series, with the first pitch at 8:10 PM ET at Kauffman Stadium. Jack Flaherty takes the mound first for St. Louis (-135 to win), and Mike Minor is Kansas City’s (+115) pick to start.

The betting insights and predictions in this article reflect betting data from DraftKings as of August 12, 2021, 4:00 PM ET. See table below for current betting odds and CLICK HERE to bet at DraftKings Sportsbook.

Cardinals vs Royals Betting Odds

Pitching Matchup

Cardinals Probable Starter Jack Flaherty

• Flaherty makes the start for the Cardinals, his 12th of the season. He is 8-1 with a 2.90 ERA and 67 strikeouts in 62 innings pitched.
• The righty last appeared on Tuesday, June 1 against the Dodgers, when he threw five innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up two hits.
• The opposing Royals offense has the 24th-ranked slugging percentage (.388) and is 27th in MLB play with 115 home runs. They have a collective .241 batting average, and are 18th in the league with 902 total hits and 24th in MLB action scoring 467 runs.
• The Cardinals won each of Flaherty’s seven starts this season that they were the moneyline favorite.

Starting pitcher projections reflect team information as of August 12, 2021 at 4:48 PM ET and may change up to the start of game.

Royals Stats vs Flaherty

Royals Probable Starter Mike Minor

• Minor (8-10) will take to the mound for the Royals and make his 24th start of the season.
• The left-hander’s last start was on Saturday, when he tossed five innings while giving up four earned runs on seven hits in a matchup with the Cardinals.
• The Cardinals rank 26th in MLB with 460 runs scored this season. They have a .236 batting average this campaign with 125 home runs (23rd in the league).
• His team has been victorious in 46.2% of the games he’s started as the moneyline underdog with a record of 6-7.

Starting pitcher projections reflect team information as of August 12, 2021 at 4:48 PM ET and may change up to the start of game.

Cardinals Stats vs Minor

Cardinals Betting Trends

• The Cardinals score an average of 4.2 runs per game on the road compared to 3.9 per contest at home.
• The Cardinals score the fifth-fewest runs in baseball (460 total, 4.0 per game).
• The Cardinals have won 61.3% of the games this season when they were the moneyline favorite (38-24).
• In games it has played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -135 or shorter, St. Louis has gone 20-8 (71.4%).
• In the 114 games oddsmakers have set an over/under for St. Louis, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 52 times (52-56-6).
• St. Louis played as the moneyline favorite in eight of its last 10 games, and finished 6-2 in those matchups.

Royals Betting Trends

• The Royals have scored the 24th-most runs in the league this season with 467 (4.1 per game).
• In 56 home games this season, they’ve scored 4.8 runs per contest compared to the 3.5 per game they score away from Kauffman Stadium.
• The Royals have been underdogs in 75 games this season and won 28 (37.3%) of those contests.
• Kansas City has a record of 19-37 in games where sportsbooks have them as underogs of at least +115 on the moneyline.
• Kansas City’s games have gone over the total in 50 of their 113 chances.
• In 10 games over the last 10 matchups when set as the underdog by sportsbooks, Kansas City has a record of 4-6.

Cardinals Players to Watch

• Paul Goldschmidt has 19 doubles, a triple, 18 home runs and 45 walks while hitting .274.
• Among the qualified hitters in MLB play, Goldschmidt’s 118 hits rank 18th.
• Nolan Arenado’s 22 home runs and 69 RBI both pace his team.
• Among the qualifying hitters in MLB, Arenado ranks 21st in HR (22), 17th in RBI (69), and ninth in SLG (.494).

Cardinals Batting Stats (2021)

Royals Players to Watch

• Salvador Perez is batting .276 with 29 home runs and 73 RBI. All three of those stats are tops among Kansas City hitters this season.
• Perez ranks 16th in hits (120), third in HR (29), and 13th in RBI (73) among qualified hitters in MLB.
• Whit Merrifield has 122 hits and an OBP of .314 to go with a slugging percentage of .387 this season.
• Merrifield’s 122 hits rank 12th, and his .387 SLG ranks 23rd among all qualified batters in the league.

Royals Batting Stats (2021)

Cardinals vs Royals Player Props

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