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The San Diego Padres (72-55) are set to take on the New York Mets (66-61) Thursday at 9:40 p.m. ET, airing on SDPA. The Padres are listed as -152 favorites by oddsmakers, while the underdog Mets have +127 odds for the contest. Dylan Cease starts for San Diego while Luis Severino is New York’s starter for the contest.
Here is our betting primer for this game, and discover all of our expert MLB picks, too!
Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $33.16
Padres to win vs Mets -152
Padres vs. Mets Betting Lines
- Favorite: Padres (-152)
- Underdog: Mets (+127)
- Over/under: 7
Padres vs. Mets Betting Insights
- The Padres have been favorites in 78 games this season and have come away with the win 46 times (59%) in those contests.
- This season San Diego has come away with a win 23 times in 34 chances when named as a favorite of at least -152 on the moneyline.
- Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Padres have a 60.3% chance of pulling out a win.
- The Mets have won 43.8% of the games this season they were the moneyline underdog (21-27).
- New York has a record of 8-6 in games it has played as a moneyline underdog with odds of +127 or longer (57.1%).
- The implied moneyline probablility for this matchup gives the Mets a 44.1% chance to win.
Padres vs. Mets Hitting Leaders
- Jurickson Profar leads San Diego in home runs (20) and runs batted in (76) this season while batting .290.
- Of all MLB hitters, Profar ranks 17th in batting average, seventh in on-base percentage, and 27th in slugging.
- Jackson Merrill has 125 hits and an OBP of .320 to go with a slugging percentage of .484 this season.
- Francisco Lindor has accumulated a team-best batting average of .266 while pacing the Mets in runs batted in (73).
- Among all hitters in MLB, Lindor’s home run total puts him 19th, and his RBI total ranks 23rd.
- Pete Alonso has hit 27 home runs to pace his team.
Padres vs. Mets Pitching Rankings
- The Padres average 9.2 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, third-most in the league.
- The Padres have pitched to a 3.94 ERA this season, which ranks 14th in baseball.
- The Padres have a combined WHIP of just 1.228 as a pitching staff, which is the eighth-best in baseball this season.
- The Mets pitching staff ranks fifth in MLB with a collective 9.0 strikeouts per nine innings.
- New York has a 4.14 team ERA that ranks 18th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Mets combine for the 21st-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.295).