The Cleveland Baseball Club will be starting the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner against Kansas City.
After two straight wins in Kansas City, the Cleveland Baseball Club is looking for their third and they are starting their best pitcher, Shane Bieber. Bieber will be making his seventh start of the year and his second against the Royals this season. The last time Bieber allowed 2 runs on 3 hits while striking out 8 batters over 6.1 innings.
Shane Bieber enters Wednesday as the MLB leader in strikeouts with 68 in 6 games. Considering Bieber’s track record against these Royals batters it is very likely that he extends his lead in the category. Bieber has struck out 38 Kansas City batters in 111 at-bats, meaning that just over one-third of at-bats against Bieber results in a strikeout for the Royals.
The Royals will be starting Brady Singer, his first against Cleveland this season. After allowing 5 runs in his first start this season and has since only allowed 3 total over his next four starts. The last start was only 2 innings against the Minnesota Twins. Cleveland will have to hope that Singer pitches more like he did in his first start rather than the subsequent four.
