Aaron Judge and Taylor Ward go head-to-head in a battle between top-five power hitters when the New York Yankees (33-20) and the Los Angeles Angels (25-28) play at 9:38 p.m. ET on Wednesday at Angel Stadium. Judge has 18 home runs (second in the league) for the favored Yankees (-166), while Ward ranks fifth in MLB play with 15 round-trippers this season for the underdog Angels (+140). New York’s Clarke Schmidt gets the start against Los Angeles’ Yusei Kikuchi.

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Yankees vs. Angels betting lines

• Favorite: Yankees (-166)
• Underdog: Angels (+140)
• Over/under: 9

Yankees betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Yankees betting info

• The Yankees have won 67.4% of the games this season when they were favored on the moneyline (31-15).
• New York has a 13-4 record (winning 76.5% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -166 or shorter.
• Based on this game’s moneyline, the Yankees’ implied win probability is 62.4%.
• New York has had an over/under set by bookmakers 52 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 22 of those games (22-28-2).
• The Yankees have gone 25-27-0 ATS this season.

Yankees hitting info

• Judge paces the Yankees with 18 home runs and 47 runs batted in, while putting up a team-high batting average of .398.
• Judge’s home runs rank second in MLB and he ranks fourth in RBI in MLB.
• Judge brings a four-game hitting streak into this game. During his last five outings he is hitting .353 with a double, two home runs, five walks and three RBIs.
• Paul Goldschmidt is batting .345 with 11 doubles, a triple, five home runs and 16 walks.
• Goldschmidt ranks 128th in home runs among hitters in MLB action and 64th in RBI.
• Goldschmidt brings a four-game hitting streak into this matchup. During his last five outings he is batting .412 with a triple, two walks and two RBIs.
• Cody Bellinger is hitting .268 with nine doubles, two triples, eight home runs and 21 walks.
• Anthony Volpe is batting .244 with 16 doubles, two triples, six home runs and 22 walks.
• Volpe has safely hit in three games in a row. In his last five games he is batting .300 with two doubles, a triple, a walk and five RBIs.

Yankees pitching rankings

• The pitching staff for the Yankees has a collective 9.8 K/9, the first-best in MLB.
• New York has a 3.34 team ERA that ranks seventh among all MLB pitching staffs.
• Yankees pitchers combine for the No. 4 WHIP in baseball (1.162).
• Yankees pitchers combine to give up the fourth-fewest home runs in baseball (45 total, 0.8 per game).
• New York struck out 11 Angels batters while giving up five hits in a 5-1 win in its last game.

Angels betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Angels betting info

• The Angels have been underdogs in 42 games this season and won 20 (47.6%) of those contests.
• Los Angeles has a record of 7-8, a 46.7% win rate, when it’s set as an underdog of +140 or more by oddsmakers this season.
• The moneyline for this contest implies a 41.7% chance of a victory for the Angels.
• Los Angeles’ games have gone over the total in 29 of its 53 chances.
• The Angels are 24-29-0 against the spread this season.

Angels hitting info

• Ward leads Los Angeles in home runs (15) and runs batted in (37) this season while batting .222.
• Ward’s home run total ranks fifth in the majors, and he is 14th in RBI.
• Nolan Schanuel is batting .274 to lead Los Angeles, while adding three homers and 14 runs batted in this season.
• Schanuel is 193rd overall in homers and 212th in RBI this season.
• Zach Neto has collected 39 base hits, an OBP of .324 and a slugging percentage of .551 this season.
• Logan O’Hoppe has 44 hits and an OBP of .299 to go with a slugging percentage of .533 this season.

Angels pitching rankings

• The Angels strike out just 7.5 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranks 26th in MLB.
• Los Angeles pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.97 ERA this year, which ranks 25th in MLB.
• The Angels have a combined WHIP of 1.518 as a pitching staff, which is second-worst in baseball this season.
• The Angels have given up the fifth-most long balls so far this season with 71 home runs allowed.
• Los Angeles pitchers struck out seven Yankees hitters while allowing six base hits in a 5-1 loss its last time out.