Guardians vs. Royals Betting Odds, Pitching Matchup – August 27, 2024

The Cleveland Guardians (75-56) host the Kansas City Royals (73-58) at 6:40 p.m. ET Tuesday in a meeting between two of the league’s best hitters. Steven Kwan is batting .303 this year (sixth in the league) for the favored Guardians (-141), while Bobby Witt Jr. ranks first in the majors with a .347 average for the underdog Royals. Gavin Williams will get the ball for Cleveland while Kansas City will counter with Michael Lorenzen.

Take a look at our preview for this matchup, and find all of our MLB betting picks, too!

Guardians vs. Royals Betting Lines

• Favorite: Guardians (-141)
• Underdog: Royals (+119)
• Over/under: 8.5

Guardians vs. Royals Betting Insights

• The Guardians have been favorites in 80 games this season and have come away with the win 53 times (66.2%) in those contests.
• Cleveland has a record of 21-12 in contests when bookmakers favor them by -141 or more on the moneyline.
• Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Guardians have a 58.5% chance of pulling out a win.
• The Royals are 29-34 in games they were listed as the moneyline underdog (winning 46% of those games).
• When it has played as a moneyline underdog with odds of +119 or longer, Kansas City has an 8-16 record (winning just 33.3% of its games).
• The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Royals a 45.7% chance to win.

Guardians vs. Royals Hitting Leaders

• Jose Ramirez is batting .273 this season with a team-high 33 home runs and 103 RBI.
• Among all hitters in MLB, Ramirez’s home run total ranks him sixth and his RBI tally places him second.
• Josh Naylor has 107 hits and an OBP of .318 to go with a slugging percentage of .463 this season.
• Witt has accumulated a team-best batting average of .347, and leads the Royals in home runs (27).
• Witt’s home run total ranks 14th in the big leagues, and he is fifth in RBI.
• Vinnie Pasquantino has totaled 96 runs batted in to pace his team.

Guardians vs. Royals Pitching Rankings

• The Guardians strike out 8.8 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, ninth-best in MLB.
• The Guardians have the eighth-best ERA (3.78) in the majors this season.
• The Guardians have a combined 1.216 WHIP as a pitching staff, sixth-lowest in MLB.
• The Royals pitching staff ranks 23rd in MLB with a collective 8.2 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Kansas City has a 3.90 team ERA that ranks 11th among all MLB pitching staffs.
• The Royals have the 18th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.276).