Eveland, Athletics visit Kansas City and Brian Bannister

Neither the Oakland A’s nor the Kansas City Royals have had a very good season. The Athletics looked to be one of the surprise teams in the league for baseball betting fans when the season began. They were actually challenging for the lead in the A.L. West Division.

Then reality set in and the Athletics found themselves struggling to play .500 ball. The Kansas City Royals will forever be the Kansas City Royals. That means that they are one of the few teams that MLB betting fans can always count on. Of course, when it comes to the Royals it means being able to count on them losing against the BetUS Sportsbook spread.

The Royals start pitcher Brian Bannister in tonight’s game. Bannister has been awful, like almost every single player on the Royals’ roster, this season going 7 and 14 with a 5.75 ERA. Well, at least he’s consistent, right? Sometimes that’s all an online betting fan can hope for.

The Athletics counter Bannister with pitcher Dana Eveland. Eveland has been decent this season going 8 and 8 with a 4.21 ERA. Those aren’t sparkling numbers but they might be good enough for the Athletics to win a game against the likes of the Royals.

Here are the BetUS online sportsbook MLB betting odds for this game.

Oakland Athletics
Dana Eveland – L + 1 ½ - 220 - 110 O 8 ½ - 120

Kansas City Royals
Brian Bannister – R - 1 ½ + 180 - 110 U 8 ½ Ev

Here are a few online wagering trends that might help us find a good online bet in this game.

The Oakland Athletics are 5 and 1 in their last 6 games after a loss.

The Oakland Athletics are 4 and 1 in Dana Eveland’s last 5 games versus a team with a losing record.

The Kansas City Royals are 7 and 19 in their last 26 games overall.

The Kansas City Royals are 0 and 5 in Brian Bannister’s last 5 starts.

If we forget about making an online MLB wager on the run line, then it looks as if the BetUS Sportsbook is offering us a gift online bet in this game, right? The Oakland Athletics should be much bigger favorites than – 110 against the spread tonight.

Or, should they? The truth is that even though the Kansas City Royals are worse than the Athletics they are only worse by five games. Taking into account the hot start that Oakland had this season, baseball betting fans would suspect the A’s to be way ahead, win wise, of the Royals. They aren’t.

Then again, the Royals are the Royals. With the against the spread betting odds at – 110 on both teams, I have to turn to the trends.

The online wagering trends say that the Athletics win this game. There’s nothing that I can see that should sway me from that notion. I’ll be making an online bet on the Oakland Athletics to beat the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.