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The Pittsburgh Pirates (30-33) will look to Oneil Cruz, with homers in two straight games, to pull off an upset win over the Minnesota Twins (33-30) Saturday at PNC Park. The Twins are -130 moneyline favorites for the game, which starts at 4:05 PM ET live on BSN. Simeon Woods Richardson will get the ball for Minnesota while Pittsburgh will counter with Carmen Mlodzinski.
Here is our preview for this matchup, and find all of our MLB betting picks, too!
Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $35.38
Twins to win vs Pirates -130
Twins vs. Pirates Betting Lines
- Favorite: Twins (-130)
- Underdog: Pirates (+110)
- Over/under: 9
Twins vs. Pirates Betting Insights
- The Twins have been favorites in 37 games this season and have come away with the win 23 times (62.2%) in those contests.
- This season Minnesota has been victorious 14 times in 23 chances when named as a favorite of at least -130 on the moneyline.
- The Twins have an implied victory probability of 56.5% according to the moneyline set for this matchup.
- The Pirates have gone 20-19 in games they were listed as the moneyline underdog (winning 51.3% of those games).
- Pittsburgh has a 12-12 record (winning 50% of its games) when it has played as a moneyline underdog of +110 or longer.
- Based on this contest’s moneyline, the Pirates’ implied win probability is 47.6%.
Twins vs. Pirates Hitting Leaders
- Ryan Jeffers leads Minnesota in home runs with 12 and runs batted in with 36.
- Jeffers is 19th in home runs and 31st in RBI among all batters in baseball.
- Carlos Santana has 43 hits and an OBP of .299 to go with a slugging percentage of .389 this season.
- Bryan Reynolds has a team-high 34 runs batted in.
- Reynolds is 60th in homers and 39th in RBI among all batters in the majors.
- Connor Joe’s .270 batting average paces his team.
Twins vs. Pirates Pitching Rankings
- The Twins strike out a league-high 9.2 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff.
- The Twins have the 22nd-ranked ERA (4.26) in the majors this season.
- The Twins have a combined WHIP of just 1.216 as a pitching staff, which is the ninth-best in baseball this season.
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Pirates pitching staff ranks 14th in MLB.
- Pittsburgh has the 15th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (3.93).
- Pitchers for the Pirates combine for the 17th-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.275).