Giants vs. White Sox Betting Odds, Pitching Matchup – August 20, 2024

The San Francisco Giants will take the field against the Chicago White Sox (30-95) on Tuesday. The game begins at 9:45 p.m. ET on NBCS-CHI, with the Giants listed as -250 favorites on the moneyline. San Francisco’s Robbie Ray gets the start, and he’ll go against Chicago’s Davis Martin.

Take a look at our betting primer for this game, and discover all of our MLB picks, too!

Giants vs. White Sox Betting Lines

• Favorite: Giants (-250)
• Underdog: White Sox (+203)
• Over/under: 8

Giants vs. White Sox Betting Insights

• The Giants have been favorites in 68 games this season and have come away with the win 39 times (57.4%) in those contests.
• San Francisco has played as a favorite of -250 or more just one time this year and came away with a win in that game.
• The moneyline set for this matchup implies the Giants have a 71.4% chance of walking away with the win.
• The White Sox are 26-92 in games they were the underdog on the moneyline (winning 22% of those games).
• When it has played as a moneyline underdog with odds of +203 or longer, Chicago has a 5-22 record (winning just 18.5% of its games).
• Based on this contest’s moneyline, the White Sox have an implied win probability of 33%.

Giants vs. White Sox Hitting Leaders

• Matt Chapman leads San Francisco in batting average (.245), home runs (19) and runs batted in (61) this season.
• Chapman’s home runs rank him 42nd in Major League Baseball, and he is 48th in RBI.
• Heliot Ramos is batting .279 with an OBP of .335 and a slugging percentage of .490 this season.
• Andrew Vaughn leads the White Sox with 14 home runs and 52 runs batted in, while accumulating a team-high batting average of .242.
• In all of MLB, Vaughn ranks 99th in home runs and 88th in RBI.
• Andrew Benintendi has 15 doubles, 13 home runs and 26 walks while batting .216.

Giants vs. White Sox Pitching Rankings

• The Giants average 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, sixth-most in the league.
• The Giants have pitched to a 4.20 ERA this season, which ranks 21st in baseball.
• The Giants rank 22nd in MLB with a combined 1.302 WHIP this season.
• The 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the White Sox pitching staff ranks 19th in MLB.
• Chicago has a 4.84 team ERA that ranks 29th among all MLB pitching staffs.
• Pitchers for the White Sox combine for the second-worst WHIP in MLB (1.436).