#967/968 ASA TOP PLAY ON 10* Over 7.5 Runs - Kansas City Royals at New York Yankees, Monday at 7:38 PM ET - The Yankees got the 6-5 win in Game 1 of this series and one of the things that impressed was that they drew 8 walks in the game! Patience at the plate is a good sign for the Yankees hitters and, though Cole Ragans did not issue any walks in his start against Baltimore in the Wild Card series, this followed 10 walks in his final 3 starts of the regular season. When he faced the Yankees last month Ragans allowed only 2 earned runs but now they face him again in the Bronx and within a time span of less than a month. We expect New York to have more success in the rematch. They will need to score well here because signs point to Carlos Rodon having some struggles in this one against the Royals. The Yankees southpaw has faced the Royals 3 times since September of last year and that outing late last season was a disaster and he has allowed 11 earned runs in his last 13 innings against Kansas City. The Royals did hit two homers against him too when they faced him last month. They are a confident lineup against Rodon even though he did have one strong start against him this season at Kansas City. Rodon struggled in his only post-season start a few years ago with the White Sox and did not make it out of the 3rd inning. There is a lot of pressure on him here and that ugly post-season experience does not help matters. We expect that to get to him and the Royals to have some success against Rodon in this one. 8 of last 9 Yankees games dating back to the regular season have totaled 8 or more runs and 7 of those 8 reached a total of 10 or more runs! We expect a similar result here. Per our computer math, the highest probability in this one is for a range of 9 to 10 runs here. Over is the call in this one Monday evening.