After a four-hit game last time out, Corey Seager leads the Texas Rangers (50-52) as -286 favorites against the Chicago White Sox (27-77). Action gets underway from Globe Life Field at 2:35 PM ET on Thursday, live on NBCS-CHI. Max Scherzer takes the mound for Texas while Jonathan Cannon is Chicago’s starter for the contest.
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Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $26.99
Rangers to win vs White Sox -286
Rangers vs. White Sox Betting Lines
- Favorite: Rangers (-286)
- Underdog: White Sox (+230)
- Over/under: 8.5
Rangers vs. White Sox Betting Insights
- The Rangers have been favorites in 56 games this season and have come away with the win 33 times (58.9%) in those contests.
- Texas has played as a favorite of -286 or more just one time this year and came away with a win in that game.
- The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Rangers have a 74.1% chance of coming away with a victory in the contest.
- The White Sox have won 23 of the 97 games they were the underdog on the moneyline this season (23.7%).
- In games it has played as a moneyline underdog with odds of +230 or longer, Chicago has a 1-8 record (winning just 11.1% of its games).
- The White Sox have an implied moneyline win probability of 30.3% in this matchup.
Rangers vs. White Sox Hitting Leaders
- Marcus Semien is batting .244 for Texas with a team-high 52 RBI.
- Semien’s home runs rank him 57th in MLB, and he ranks 44th in RBI.
- Seager leads Texas in home runs with 19 while driving in 49 runs and slugging .479.
- Andrew Vaughn paces the White Sox in runs batted in (44) and has put up a team-high batting average of .236.
- In all of the majors, Vaughn ranks 99th in home runs and 84th in RBI.
- Gavin Sheets is batting .221 with 19 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 35 walks.
Rangers vs. White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The Rangers average 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, 10th-most in the league.
- The Rangers have pitched to a 4.00 ERA this season, which ranks 16th in baseball.
- The Rangers have a combined WHIP of 1.250 as a pitching staff, which ranks 14th in MLB.
- The White Sox pitching staff is 14th in MLB with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Chicago has a 4.64 team ERA that ranks 29th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The White Sox average MLB’s second-highest WHIP (1.380).