Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Royals Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 05/20/26

The Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals will be closing out a three-game series on Wednesday night. The Red Sox will be looking for the sweep in Game 3. The Royals have been struggling recently; they are 2-88 in their last 10 games played. This is a battle between two of the weaker offensive teams in the MLB, the Red Sox average 3.7 runs per game, while the Royals average 3.9 runs per game, ranking 29^th and 27^th, respectively. The main difference being that the Red Sox are the sixth-best in runs allowed per game with 3.9 compared to the 4.5 runs allowed per game of the Royals. Two solid starting pitchers will be taking the mound in this game. Connelly Early for the Red Sox is coming off back-to-back impressive starts where he only surrendered two earned runs in 12.0 innings over the two starts.

Given the recent struggles of the Royals and the way things seem to be trending for the Red Sox, I think there is some value on the Red Sox here as road underdogs. Give me the Red Sox in this one.

Red Sox vs. Royals prediction: Red Sox ML (+100) available at time of publishing. Playable to -110.