Data Skrive:
The Oakland Athletics (46-67) are -175 favorites to break their two-game losing streak when they face the Chicago White Sox (27-87), losers of 20 in a row. The game begins Tuesday at 9:40 PM ET on NBCS-CA, live from Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Ross Stripling will get the ball for Oakland while Chicago will counter with Jonathan Cannon.
Take a look at our betting preview for this tilt, and find all of our MLB betting picks, too!
Moneyline
Bet $20, Payout $31.43
Athletics to win vs White Sox -175
Athletics vs. White Sox Betting Lines
- Favorite: Athletics (-175)
- Underdog: White Sox (+145)
- Over/under: 8
Athletics vs. White Sox Betting Insights
- The Athletics have won in nine, or 75%, of the 12 contests they have been named as odds-on favorites in this year.
- Oddsmakers have given Oakland the best odds of winning it has seen this season, with a -175 moneyline listed for this contest.
- Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Athletics have a 63.6% chance of pulling out a win.
- The White Sox are 23-84 in games they were the underdog on the moneyline (winning 21.5% of those games).
- When playing as a moneyline underdog with odds of +145 or longer, Chicago has gone 12-61 (16.4%).
- Based on this matchup’s moneyline, the White Sox have an implied win probability of 40.8%.
Athletics vs. White Sox Hitting Leaders
- Brent Rooker leads Oakland in batting average (.290), home runs (28) and runs batted in (81) this season.
- Among all MLB batters, Rooker ranks 18th in batting average, 19th in on-base percentage, and fifth in slugging.
- JJ Bleday has 96 hits and an OBP of .321 to go with a slugging percentage of .438 this season.
- Andrew Vaughn has put up a team-best batting average of .235, and paces the White Sox in home runs (13) and runs batted in (50).
- Among all batters in the majors, Vaughn’s home run total puts him 88th, and his RBI total ranks 76th.
- Gavin Sheets has 19 doubles, a triple, seven home runs and 35 walks while hitting .214.
Athletics vs. White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The Athletics strike out just 7.8 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranks 28th in MLB.
- The Athletics have the 23rd-ranked ERA (4.39) in the majors this season.
- The Athletics have a combined WHIP of 1.352 as a pitching staff, which is fourth-worst in baseball this season.
- The 8.5 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the White Sox pitching staff ranks 19th in the majors.
- Chicago’s 4.88 team ERA ranks 29th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the White Sox combine for the second-worst WHIP in MLB (1.422).