Yankees vs. Blue Jays Betting Odds, Pitching Matchup – August 4, 2024

The New York Yankees (65-46) host the Toronto Blue Jays (51-59) at 1:35 PM ET Sunday for a meeting between two of the league’s best hitters. For the favored Yankees (-218), Aaron Judge is batting .318 this year, third in the league, while Vladimir Guerrero Jr. ranks fourth in the majors with a .314 average for the underdog Blue Jays. New York’s Gerrit Cole gets the start, and he’ll go against Toronto’s Yariel Rodriguez.

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Yankees vs. Blue Jays Betting Lines

• Favorite: Yankees (-218)
• Underdog: Blue Jays (+181)
• Over/under: 9.5

Yankees vs. Blue Jays Betting Insights

• The Yankees have come away with 45 wins in the 82 contests they have been listed as the favorites in this season.
• This season New York has come away with a win four times in seven chances when named as a favorite of at least -218 on the moneyline.
• The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Yankees have a 68.6% chance of walking away with the win.
• The Blue Jays have gone 16-33 in games they were the underdog on the moneyline (winning 32.7% of those games).
• Toronto has played as a moneyline underdog of +181 or longer in just one game this season, which it lost.
• Based on this contest’s moneyline, the Blue Jays’ implied win probability is 35.6%.

Yankees vs. Blue Jays Hitting Leaders

• Judge is batting .318 with 40 home runs and 101 RBI. All three of those stats rank first among New York hitters this season.
• Including all hitters in Major League Baseball, Judge is first in homers and first in RBI.
• Juan Soto has 122 hits and an OBP of .436 to go with a slugging percentage of .592 this season.
• Guerrero paces the Blue Jays in home runs (21), runs batted in (71) and has put up a team-high batting average of .314.
• Guerrero ranks 20th in homers and 14th in RBI among all hitters in the big leagues.
• George Springer is hitting .229 with 16 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs and 44 walks.

Yankees vs. Blue Jays Pitching Rankings

• The Yankees have an 8.9 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, seventh-best in baseball.
• The Yankees have pitched to a 3.73 ERA this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
• The Yankees have a combined 1.231 WHIP as a pitching staff, ninth-lowest in MLB.
• The 8.3 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Blue Jays pitching staff ranks 22nd in the majors.
• Toronto’s 4.64 team ERA ranks 28th across all MLB pitching staffs.
• The Blue Jays average MLB’s 25th-ranked WHIP (1.340).