Guardians vs. Royals Betting Odds, Pitching Matchup – September 3, 2024

Steven Kwan, batting .295 this season, leads the Cleveland Guardians (79-59) into a matchup with one of the league’s other top hitters, Bobby Witt Jr. (.338 AVG) and the Kansas City Royals (75-64). Kwan and the Guardians are -120 favorites on the moneyline for the matchup at Kauffman Stadium, beginning at 7:40 p.m. ET live on BSKC. Cleveland’s Tanner Bibee gets the start, and he’ll go against Kansas City’s Brady Singer.

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

Guardians vs. Royals Betting Lines

• Favorite: Guardians (-120)
• Underdog: Royals (+101)
• Over/under: 8

Guardians vs. Royals Betting Insights

• The Guardians have come away with 56 wins in the 86 contests they have been listed as the favorites in this season.
• This year Cleveland has won 44 of 65 games when listed as at least -120 on the moneyline.
• The Guardians have an implied victory probability of 54.5% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
• The Royals are 31-39 in games they were listed as the moneyline underdog (winning 44.3% of those games).
• In games it has played as a moneyline underdog with odds of +101 or longer, Kansas City has gone 24-32 (42.9%).
• The implied moneyline probablility for this matchup gives the Royals a 49.8% chance to win.

Guardians vs. Royals Hitting Leaders

• Jose Ramirez is batting .275 this season with a team-high 34 home runs and 105 RBI.
• Among all hitters in MLB, Ramirez’s home run total ranks him sixth and his RBI tally places him second.
• Josh Naylor is batting .245 with an OBP of .326 and a slugging percentage of .474 this season.
• Witt has a team-best batting average of .338, and leads the Royals in home runs (30) and runs batted in (97).
• Witt is ninth in home runs and seventh in RBI among all hitters in the majors.
• Salvador Perez has 26 doubles, 25 home runs and 39 walks while hitting .273.

Guardians vs. Royals Pitching Rankings

• The Guardians average 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, 10th-most in the league.
• The Guardians have pitched to a 3.83 ERA this season, which ranks eighth in baseball.
• The Guardians have a combined 1.219 WHIP as a pitching staff, fifth-lowest in MLB.
• The Royals pitching staff is 24th in the majors with a collective 8.2 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Kansas City has the 12th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.94).
• The Royals have the 17th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.272).