Kansas City Royals at Oakland Athletics 6/12/21 - MLB Picks & Predictions

In Saturday afternoon MLB action, the Kansas City Royals and the Oakland Athletics will continue their four-game series from RingCentral Coliseum. Last night, Kansas City erased an early three-run deficit before falling at Oakland by a 4-3 final score. The Royals (30-32) went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base in defeat.

Rookie right-hander Jackson Kowar (0-1 54.00 ERA) will make his second career major league start for the Royals. Last time out, Kowar was tagged for four runs and recorded just two outs during an 8-3 road loss against Los Angeles.

The Oakland Athletics are two games above .500 at home and lead Houston by one full game for first place in the AL West Division. On Friday, SS Elvis Andrus sent the Oakland fans home happy with a walk-off single in the ninth inning that scored Matt Chapman. OF Seth Brown hit his ninth home run of the season for the Athletics, who improved to 38-27 overall.

Rookie right-hander James Kaprielian (2-1 3.08 ERA) will make his sixth career major league start for the Athletics. Through 26 plus innings, Kaprielian has struck out 28 batters and owns a respectable 1.22 WHIP.