Data Skrive:
Two of the league’s top hitters will meet Monday when the Kansas City Royals (62-50) and Boston Red Sox (58-51) take to the field at 8:10 PM ET, live on BSKC. Bobby Witt Jr. is batting .345 for the Royals (-148 favorites on the moneyline) while Rafael Devers leads the underdog Red Sox (+126) with a .306 average. Kansas City’s Brady Singer gets the start, and he’ll go against Boston’s James Paxton.
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Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $33.51
Royals to win vs Red Sox -148
Royals vs. Red Sox Betting Lines
- Favorite: Royals (-148)
- Underdog: Red Sox (+126)
- Over/under: 9.5
Royals vs. Red Sox Betting Insights
- The Royals have come away with 33 wins in the 50 contests they have been listed as the favorites in this season.
- Kansas City has a record of 21-7 when favored by -148 or more this year.
- The Royals have an implied victory probability of 59.7% according to the moneyline set by oddsmakers for this matchup.
- The Red Sox have a 27-26 record in games they were listed as the moneyline underdog (winning 50.9% of those games).
- Boston is 6-10 (winning only 37.5% of its games) when it has played as a moneyline underdog of +126 or longer.
- The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Red Sox a 44.2% chance to win.
Royals vs. Red Sox Hitting Leaders
- Witt is batting .345 with 20 home runs and 79 RBI. All three of those stats are tops among Kansas City hitters this season.
- Including all hitters in Major League Baseball, Witt is 23rd in home runs and fourth in RBI.
- Vinnie Pasquantino leads Kansas City in runs batted in (79) this season. He’s batting .266 while slugging .449.
- Devers has a team-high batting average of .306, and leads the Red Sox in home runs (25) and runs batted in (70).
- In all of MLB, Devers is 10th in home runs and 18th in RBI.
- Jarren Duran has 33 doubles, 13 triples, 13 home runs and 39 walks while hitting .292.
Royals vs. Red Sox Pitching Rankings
- The Royals average the 24th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.1) in the league this season.
- The Royals have pitched to a 3.76 ERA this season, which ranks sixth in baseball.
- Royals pitchers have a 1.248 WHIP this season, 13th in the majors.
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Red Sox pitching staff ranks 13th in the majors.
- Boston has a 3.98 team ERA that ranks 13th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Red Sox average baseball’s 12th-ranked WHIP (1.245).