Guardians vs. Orioles Betting Lines, Odds, & Player Matchups April 17, 2025

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The Baltimore Orioles (6-10) host the Cleveland Guardians (9-7) on Thursday at 6:35 p.m. ET. The Orioles are underdogs (-101) against the favored Guardians (-118). Cleveland has Tanner Bibee set to start, and Baltimore counters with Tomoyuki Sugano.

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Guardians to win vs Orioles -118

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Guardians vs. Orioles betting lines

  • Favorite: Guardians (-118)
  • Underdog: Orioles (-101)
  • Over/under: 8.5

Guardians betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Guardians betting info

  • The Guardians have won six of the eight games they were the moneyline favorite this season (75%).
  • Cleveland has gone 5-1 (winning 83.3% of its games) when playing as moneyline favorites of -118 or shorter.
  • Based on this contest’s moneyline, the Guardians’ implied win probability is 54.1%.
  • In the 16 games in which oddsmakers have set an over/under for Cleveland, it has combined with opponents to go over the total seven times (7-8-1).
  • The Guardians have covered 43.8% of their games this season, going 7-9-0 ATS.

Guardians hitting info

  • Steven Kwan paces the Guardians with 11 runs batted in while racking up a team-high batting average of .333.
  • Kwan ranks 50th in homers and 33rd in RBI among all batters in MLB play.
  • Kwan enters this game on a five-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .391 with two home runs, a walk and eight RBI.
  • Jose Ramirez’s four home runs pace his team.
  • Ramirez currently ranks 26th in homers and 85th in RBI in the majors.
  • Kyle Manzardo paces the Guardians in home runs (four) and runs batted in (11).
  • Carlos Santana is hitting .246 with two doubles, two home runs and seven walks.
  • Santana has hit safely in two games in a row. During his last five outings he is hitting .158 with three walks and an RBI.

Guardians pitching rankings

  • The 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Guardians pitching staff ranks 10th in the majors.
  • Cleveland has a 3.56 team ERA that ranks eighth among all MLB pitching staffs.
  • Pitchers for the Guardians combine for the 21st-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.331).
  • Guardians pitchers combine to surrender 17 total home runs at a rate of 1.1 per game (11th-fewest in baseball).
  • Cleveland struck out 12 Orioles batters while giving up eight hits in a 6-3 win in its last game.

Orioles betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Orioles betting info

  • The Orioles have won four of the nine games they’ve played as underdogs this season.
  • Baltimore has a record of 2-3 in games where sportsbooks have it as underdogs of at least -101 on the moneyline.
  • Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Orioles have a 50.2% chance to win.
  • Games involving Baltimore have gone over the total set by oddsmakers in nine of 16 chances this season.
  • The Orioles are 5-11-0 against the spread this season.

Orioles hitting info

  • Cedric Mullins is batting .300 with four home runs and 17 RBI. All three of those stats are best among Baltimore hitters this season.
  • Among all hitters in the majors, Mullins is 26th in homers and sixth in RBI.
  • Adley Rutschman has 14 hits and an OBP of .318 to go with a slugging percentage of .424 this season.
  • Rutschman ranks 50th in home runs and 139th in RBI among all MLB hitters this season.
  • Tyler O’Neill has 13 hits this season and a slash line of .265/.339/.490.
  • Ryan O’Hearn is batting .275 with an OBP of .356 and a slugging percentage of .425 this season.
  • O’Hearn heads into this game on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .214 with two walks.

Orioles pitching rankings

  • The Orioles strike out just 7.2 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranks 28th in MLB.
  • Baltimore has the 26th-ranked ERA (4.66) in the majors this season.
  • Orioles pitchers have a 1.446 WHIP this season, fourth-worst in the majors.
  • The Orioles have allowed the seventh-fewest home runs this season at just 16, or one per game.
  • Baltimore pitchers struck out four Guardians hitters while allowing 11 base hits in a 6-3 loss its last time out.
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