Kansas City Royals at Colorado Rockies 5/14/22 - MLB Picks & Predictions

This Kansas City Royals continue a road trip Saturday afternoon as they will be in Denver Co 4 game two of three against the Colorado Rockies. Kansas City comes into Saturday playing terrible this season nine games below .500 after losing four the last five games played including a 3-1 lost to the Texas Rangers last came out. Jonathan Heasley took the loss for Kansas City giving up only one run on four hits across 3.1 innings of work period the Kansas City bullpen struggled as well allowing two more runs over the final 4.2 innings of the game.

Offensively Kansas City struggled immensely from the plate with only five hits and 32 at bats as a team including 1-6 with runners in scoring position to leave nine men on base. Salvador Perez was the only sign of life for Kansas City driving in the only run of the game.

The Colorado Rockies continue a long homestand on Saturday one game above .500 on the year at 16-15. Colorado comes into Saturday riding a four game losing streak following a 7-1 lost to the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday. Chad Kuhl struggle on the mound for Colorado giving up five runs on seven hits across 4.2 innings of work leading to the loss.

Jose Iglesias leads the Colorado offense this season with a .319 batting average, while Connor Joe leads the team with a .371 OBP. CJ Cron supplies to Colorado power posting a team high nine home runs to go along with a team leading 24 RBI’s.