#982 ASA PLAY ON 8* Arizona Diamondbacks -1.5 on the Run Line (-130) over Kansas City Royals, Wednesday at 3:40 PM ET - The Royals snuck out a 5-4 win over Arizona yesterday but had lost 9 of 10 games before the rare win.  In those 9 losses Kansas City has scored an average of only 2.4 runs per game!  KC has lost 75% of its games this season and 15 of 18 Kansas City defeats have come by at least a 2 run margin this season.  We like this run line play with action on the pitchers as the Royals also have one of the worst bullpens in MLB thus far this season as their relievers are 2-5 with a 6.29 ERA!  Arizona's bullpen has not been great this season but they still rate a few ticks above the Royals for sure plus the Diamondbacks are the much better overall team and lineup and they are at home for this one. Arizona's relievers actually have a combined 8-3 record and hitters are just hitting .235 against them even though their ERA is a little high thus far this season. Diamondbacks pen the much better pen as you can see. Even with last night's rare win, KC has lost 9 of 11 games and their struggles are likely to continue here.  Arizona was 7-4 last 11 at home this season before the loss yesterday.  Arizona's last 11 wins have had 9 come by a margin of 2 or more runs and the Royals are 3-10 in day games this season.  Regardless of the starting pitchers we have the much stronger team at home and this match-up has dominance written all over it!  As for those pichers, Ryan Yarbrough is struggling with command and has hit 6 batters in 4 innings in his last two outings and now makes a start as a bit of an opener here.  He may not last very long the way he has been throwing of late!  As for the Diamondbacks, Zac Gallen has been fantastic and after some choppiness in his first two starts, he has since dominated.  Gallen has not allowed an earned run and averaged 7 innings per start in his last 3 starts and has 29 strikeouts against 1 walk and only 7 hits in those 3 outings!  Complete dominance!  We think we're getting some nice value at -1.5 in this one and not having to lay too big a price with the Diamondbacks. Lay the 1.5 runs here!