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The New York Yankees (86-62) will take on the Boston Red Sox (74-74) Saturday at 1:05 p.m. ET. Juan Soto will be looking for his 40th home run of the season for the favored Yankees (-189) when the game gets underway at Yankee Stadium, live on MLB Network. New York’s Gerrit Cole gets the start, and he’ll go against Boston’s Brayan Bello.
Take a look at our betting primer for this matchup, and uncover all of our MLB betting picks, too!
Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $30.58
Yankees to win vs Red Sox -189
Yankees vs. Red Sox Betting Lines
- Favorite: Yankees (-189)
- Underdog: Red Sox (+158)
- Over/under: 8.5
Yankees vs. Red Sox Betting Insights
- The Yankees have been favorites in 117 games this season and have come away with the win 66 times (56.4%) in those contests.
- This year New York has won 21 of 34 games when listed as at least -189 on the moneyline.
- The Yankees have an implied victory probability of 65.4% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- The Red Sox are 33-37 in games they were the underdog on the moneyline (winning 47.1% of those games).
- Boston has played as a moneyline underdog of +158 or longer in only two games this season, which it lost both.
- Based on this contest’s moneyline, the Red Sox have an implied win probability of 38.8%.
Yankees vs. Red Sox Hitting Leaders
- Aaron Judge leads New York in batting average (.321), home runs (52) and runs batted in (130) this season.
- Judge ranks first in Major League Baseball in home runs, and first in RBI.
- Soto is batting .287 with an OBP of .417 and a slugging percentage of .574 this season.
- Jarren Duran leads the Red Sox with a .288 batting average.
- In all of MLB, Duran is 49th in homers and 48th in RBI.
- Rafael Devers’ 81 runs batted in pace his team.
Yankees vs. Red Sox Pitching Rankings
- The Yankees have a 9.0 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, fifth-best in baseball.
- Yankees pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.77 this year, eighth-best in baseball.
- The Yankees have a combined WHIP of 1.249 as a pitching staff, which ranks 14th in MLB.
- The 8.5 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Red Sox pitching staff ranks 18th in MLB.
- Boston’s 4.14 team ERA ranks 18th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Red Sox have the 17th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.260).