Lawrence Butler will look to extend his 22-game hitting streak when the Oakland Athletics (65-84) take on the Chicago White Sox (34-115). The Athletics are listed as -193 favorites on the moneyline for the contest, which starts at 2:10 p.m. ET on Sunday, live on NBCS-CHI from Guaranteed Rate Field. Oakland’s JP Sears and Chicago’s Sean Burke have been named the starters for this contest.
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Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $30.36
Athletics to win vs White Sox -193
Athletics vs. White Sox Betting Lines
- Favorite: Athletics (-193)
- Underdog: White Sox (+160)
- Over/under: 8.5
Athletics vs. White Sox Betting Insights
- The Athletics have been victorious in 12, or 66.7%, of the 18 contests they have been chosen as favorites in this season.
- Oakland has played as a favorite of -193 or more just one time this year and came away with a win in that game.
- Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Athletics have a 65.9% chance of pulling out a win.
- The White Sox have a 30-111 record in games they were listed as the moneyline underdog (winning 21.3% of those games).
- When it has played as a moneyline underdog with odds of +160 or longer, Chicago has gone 13-65 (16.7%).
- The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the White Sox a 38.5% chance to win.
Athletics vs. White Sox Hitting Leaders
- Brent Rooker leads Oakland in batting average (.301), home runs (36) and runs batted in (105) this season.
- Among hitters in baseball, Rooker is seventh in home runs and fourth in RBI.
- JJ Bleday has 130 hits and an OBP of .327 to go with a slugging percentage of .451 this season.
- Andrew Vaughn leads the White Sox in home runs (17), runs batted in (63) and has a team-high batting average of .246.
- In all of the majors, Vaughn ranks 97th in homers and 76th in RBI.
- Andrew Benintendi’s 17 home runs lead his team.
Athletics vs. White Sox Pitching Rankings
- The Athletics average just 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranks 27th in the league.
- The Athletics have pitched to a 4.32 ERA this season, which ranks 24th in baseball.
- Athletics pitchers have a 1.327 WHIP this season, 24th in the majors.
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the White Sox pitching staff ranks 13th in the majors.
- Chicago’s 4.85 team ERA ranks 29th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- The White Sox have the second-highest WHIP in MLB (1.457).