Royals and Lugo’s Secret Weapon: Can They Finally Outsmart the Fish?
The Marlins were expected to be one of the worst teams in baseball, but they’ve quietly become somehwat respectable this season. They won’t make the playoffs, and they likely will be sellers at the deadline, but the team has at leas played pretty good baseball. They were only a few games under .500 about a week before the All-Star Break. They currently sit seven games under. If they were to win this week I still doubt that their ownership invests into the team, because there is little track record of that, but at least they could potentially keep who they have together. One guy to take a flyer on is today’s starter, Sandy Alcantara. He hasn’t regained his Cy Young form from a few years ago, but he has shown some flashes of it this season. Surface level, the numbers are ugly. He is 4-9 with a 7.22 ERA and a 1.48 WHIP. After putting together four straight great starts, and looking very strong, he has now issued three straight games with at least five earned runs allowed. He has an ERA north of five when pitching in Miami as well. Royals hitters don’t have a ton of experience against him, only Jonathan India has seen him more than twice and he is 3-for-10.ÂÂ
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