Data Skrive:
An AL Central matchup Tuesday features the first-place Cleveland Guardians (81-62) visiting the fifth-place Chicago White Sox (33-111). The Guardians (-226) are listed as favorites for the game, which gets underway at 7:40 p.m. ET from Guaranteed Rate Field. Cleveland’s Ben Lively gets the start, and he’ll go against Chicago’s Jonathan Cannon.
Be sure to check out our betting primer for this matchup, and discover all of our MLB picks, too!
Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $28.85
Guardians to win vs White Sox -226
Guardians vs. White Sox Betting Lines
- Favorite: Guardians (-226)
- Underdog: White Sox (+185)
- Over/under: 8.5
Guardians vs. White Sox Betting Insights
- The Guardians have been favorites in 87 games this season and have come away with the win 57 times (65.5%) in those contests.
- This season Cleveland has come away with a win four times in six chances when named as a favorite of at least -226 on the moneyline.
- The Guardians have an implied victory probability of 69.3% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- The White Sox have won 21.3% of the games this season they were the moneyline underdog (29-107).
- Chicago is 9-42 (winning just 17.6% of its games) when playing as a moneyline underdog of +185 or longer.
- The implied moneyline probablility for this matchup gives the White Sox a 35.1% chance to win.
Guardians vs. White Sox Hitting Leaders
- Jose Ramirez is batting .271 this season with a team-high 34 home runs and 106 RBI.
- Ramirez ranks eighth in homers and second in RBI among all hitters in Major League Baseball.
- Josh Naylor is batting .242 with an OBP of .322 and a slugging percentage of .464 this season.
- Andrew Vaughn has racked up a team-high batting average of .242, while pacing the White Sox in home runs (17) and runs batted in (62).
- Among all hitters in the big leagues, Vaughn ranks 91st in homers and 75th in RBI.
- Andrew Benintendi has 19 doubles, 16 home runs and 38 walks while batting .222.
Guardians vs. White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The Guardians average 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, 10th-most in the league.
- The Guardians have pitched to a 3.82 ERA this season, which ranks ninth in baseball.
- Guardians pitchers have a 1.216 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
- The pitching staff for the White Sox has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 12th in the majors.
- Chicago’s 4.87 team ERA ranks 29th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the White Sox combine for the second-worst WHIP in baseball (1.453).