Yankees vs. Athletics Betting Odds, Pitching Matchup – September 20, 2024

Two of the league’s top power hitters will meet Friday when the New York Yankees (89-64) and Oakland Athletics (67-86) take the field at 9:40 p.m. ET, live on NBCS-CA. Aaron Judge has 53 home runs for the Yankees (-198 favorites on the moneyline) while Brent Rooker has 38 homers this season for the Athletics (+165). Gerrit Cole takes the mound for New York while J.T. Ginn is Oakland’s starter for the contest.

Here is our betting preview for this game, and find all of our MLB betting picks, too!

Yankees vs. Athletics Betting Lines

• Favorite: Yankees (-198)
• Underdog: Athletics (+165)
• Over/under: 8

Yankees vs. Athletics Betting Insights

• The Yankees have come away with 69 wins in the 121 contests they have been listed as the favorites in this season.
• This year New York has won 18 of 31 games when listed as at least -198 on the moneyline.
• Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Yankees have a 66.4% chance of pulling out a win.
• The Athletics have been the underdog on the moneyline 133 total times this season. They’ve gone 54-79 in those games.
• When playing as a moneyline underdog with odds of +165 or longer, Oakland has a 12-20 record (winning just 37.5% of its games).
• Based on this matchup’s moneyline, the Athletics have an implied win probability of 37.7%.

Yankees vs. Athletics Hitting Leaders

• Judge is batting .321 with 53 home runs and 136 RBI. All three of those stats are tops among New York hitters this season.
• Among all MLB hitters, Judge ranks third in batting average, first in on-base percentage, and first in slugging.
• Juan Soto is batting .286 with an OBP of .418 and a slugging percentage of .575 this season.
• Rooker paces the Athletics in home runs (38), runs batted in (110) and has put up a team-high batting average of .304.
• Rooker is fifth in home runs and third in RBI among all hitters in MLB.
• JJ Bleday is batting .246 with 43 doubles, four triples, 20 home runs and 64 walks.

Yankees vs. Athletics Pitching Rankings

• The Yankees have a nine K/9 this season as a pitching staff, fifth-best in baseball.
• The Yankees have the seventh-best ERA (3.73) in the majors this season.
• The Yankees rank 13th in MLB with a combined 1.251 WHIP this season.
• The 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Athletics pitching staff ranks 28th in the majors.
• Oakland has the 23rd-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.34).
• The Athletics average MLB’s 25th-ranked WHIP (1.332).