---
title: "Kansas City vs Colorado"
canonical_url: https://betcrypto.now/events/kansas-city-vs-colorado
status: settled
kickoff_at: 2026-08-01T00:40:00+00:00
trading_closes_at: 2026-08-08T00:40:00+00:00
settled_at: 2026-08-01T03:54:28+00:00
total_volume_usd: 5470179.86
venues: ["Kalshi", "Polymarket"]
categories: ["Sports", "Baseball"]
prices_as_of: 2026-10-09T12:23:31+00:00
publisher: BetCrypto
data_api: https://betcrypto.now/api/v1/events/kansas-city-vs-colorado
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# Kansas City vs Colorado

Settled · kickoff 2026-08-01 00:40 UTC · $5,470,180 traded · listed on Kalshi, Polymarket

## Result

**Colorado Rockies** won. Settled 2026-08-01.

## About

This is a live MLB matchup at Coors Field between two bottom-of-the-division clubs. The Colorado Rockies (42–67) are hosting the Kansas City Royals (46–64) to open a three-game series. On Polymarket, the moneyline market makes Kansas City Royals the narrow favourite at 75.0% on one contract, while the Colorado Rockies sit at 51.0% consensus — reflecting a live, in-game market snapshot where multiple independent Polymarket contracts show divergent readings. On Kalshi, the moneyline resolves to a KC win at 49.0%, with Colorado at 51.0% — effectively a coin flip. The Colorado Rockies are the current designated favourite at 51.0%, a slim edge consistent with their home-field advantage at Coors Field.

The pitching matchup frames the context well. Michael Wacha (5–7, 3.60 ERA) starts for Kansas City, while Colorado counters with Tomoyuki Sugano (10–4, 4.69 ERA). Sugano's record explains why Colorado holds a narrow edge despite a worse overall record — the Rockies are 12–6 in Sugano's 18 starts this season when they were the moneyline underdog. However, recent form favours Kansas City, which is 6–4 over its past ten games against Colorado's 3–7. The total runs market reflects Coors Field's notorious offensive environment, with Kalshi pricing over 4.5 combined runs at 95.0% and over 10.5 runs at 55.0%. With both platforms converging near 49–51% on the moneyline, the cross-platform takeaway is clear: markets treat this as a genuine toss-up, with Sugano's home dominance just barely tipping Colorado ahead.

_AI-written summary written 2026-08-01; its figures date from then — the table below is live._

## Other markets

- First 5 Innings Winner: Kansas City Royals — 2 outcomes
- Total Runs — 11 outcomes
- Team Total — 14 outcomes
- First 5 Innings — 3 outcomes
- Total O/U 5.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 6.5 — 2 outcomes
- Extra Innings — 2 outcomes
- Spread -2.5 — 2 outcomes
- Spread -1.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 10.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 12.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 11.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 2.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 3.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 4.5 — 2 outcomes
- Strikeouts — 13 outcomes
- Outs Recorded — 2 outcomes
- Carter Jensen: Home Runs O/U 0.5 — 2 outcomes
- Spread — 6 outcomes
- First 5 Innings Total — 7 outcomes
- Total Bases — 83 outcomes
- RBIs — 44 outcomes
- Hits + Runs + RBIs — 90 outcomes
- Home Runs — 37 outcomes
- Hits — 66 outcomes
- Stolen Bases — 16 outcomes
- First 7 Innings — 3 outcomes
- First 5 Spread — 4 outcomes
- First 3 Innings — 3 outcomes
- Total O/U 9.5 — 2 outcomes
- Total O/U 8.5 — 2 outcomes
- Josh Rojas: Home Runs O/U 0.5 — 2 outcomes
- Josh Rojas: Home Runs O/U 1.5 — 2 outcomes
- TJ Rumfield: Home Runs O/U 0.5 — 2 outcomes
- TJ Rumfield: Home Runs O/U 1.5 — 2 outcomes
- Nick Loftin: Home Runs O/U 0.5 — 2 outcomes
- Nick Loftin: Home Runs O/U 1.5 — 2 outcomes
- Cole Carrigg: Home Runs O/U 0.5 — 2 outcomes
- Cole Carrigg: Home Runs O/U 1.5 — 2 outcomes
- Tyler Freeman: Home Runs O/U 0.5 — 2 outcomes
- … and 31 more

_Every market's prices are on the event page._

## Open on a venue

- [Kalshi](https://betcrypto.now/go/e/126945?via=md)
- [Polymarket](https://betcrypto.now/go/e/99335?via=md)

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