Kansas City Royals infielder Nick Pratto is not in the lineup for Wednesday afternoon's series finale against right-hander Lucas Giolito and the Cleveland Guardians.
Pratto will sit and reset after going 0-for-8 with 4 strikeouts in the first two games of the series. Nick Loftin will move to first base and bat seventh Wednesday afternoon while Michael Massey starts on second and hits sixth.
numberFire’s models project Loftin ($2,400) for 8.0 FanDuel points on Wednesday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Royals' implied total is 3.90 and the game total is 8.5. Giolito has a middling 4.59 ERA and 4.31 xERA this season, but his 26.1% strikeout rate is in the top 71st percentile among qualified pitchers.
Source: MLB.com