The Matinee MLB Play is on the KC. Royals. Game 920 at 4:10 eastern. It will be a packed house here in KC as the Defending A.L. Champs look to get the bitter taste of last years game 7 loss to San Francisco out of their mouths. KC is in a solid spot here as they have their Ace Yordano Ventura on the mound to start things off. Ventura has won his last 7 Team starts and has allowed just 4 runs in 15 inning sat home in April. KC has won 9 of the last 12 at home in April. Chicago comes to town and has Jeff Samardjiza on the mound. He is in one of his worst career rolls. He has never pitched well, 10-20 as a road dog and 2-10 more recently. HIS worst role comes in road games that are day games as he has an elevated Era that approaches 6,he struggles on the road vs winning teams and the Royals project to be solid again this year. Samardjiza has lost 4 of his last 5 road Aprils starts and his last 3 on the road dating to last season. Chicago was the lowest scoring team last season and KC was the toughest to score on. Look for KC to open things up with a 3rd straight opening day home win.