Junior Caminero will look for his 40th homer of the season when his Tampa Bay Rays (66-69) visit the Washington Nationals (53-82) at Nationals Park on Sunday, starting at 1:35 p.m. ET. Caminero’s Rays are favored (-146) in the outing against the Nationals (+122). Ian Seymour starts for Tampa Bay while Washington will counter with Brad Lord.

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Rays vs. Nationals betting lines

• Favorite: Rays (-146)
• Underdog: Nationals (+122)
• Over/under: 9

Rays betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Rays betting info

• The Rays have won 39 of the 66 games they were the moneyline favorite this season (59.1%).
• Tampa Bay has gone 13-12 when it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -146 or shorter (52% winning percentage).
• Based on this matchup’s moneyline, the Rays’ implied win probability is 59.3%.
• In the 135 games in which bookmakers have set an over/under for Tampa Bay, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 56 times (56-71-8).
• The Rays have gone 61-74-0 ATS this season.

Rays hitting info

• Caminero paces the Rays in home runs (39) and runs batted in (94).
• Caminero’s home runs rank sixth in MLB and he ranks seventh in RBI in MLB.
• Yandy Diaz is hitting .284 to pace his team.
• Diaz currently ranks 44th in home runs and 39th in RBI in the bigs.
• Brandon Lowe is batting .264 with 13 doubles, 27 home runs and 34 walks.
• Lowe enters this game on a three-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is batting .222 with two home runs, three walks and four RBIs.
• Chandler Simpson is batting .295 with 11 doubles, three triples and 18 walks.
• Simpson heads into this matchup on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .130 with an RBI.

Rays pitching rankings

• The Rays pitching staff is seventh in MLB with a collective 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Tampa Bay’s 3.92 team ERA ranks 14th across all MLB pitching staffs.
• Rays pitchers combine for the No. 4 WHIP in the majors (1.215).
• Rays pitchers combine to give up 177 total home runs at a rate of 1.3 per game (24th-fewest in baseball).
• In its 4-1 win last time out, Tampa Bay struck out 12 Nationals batters while allowing four hits.

Nationals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Nationals betting info

• The Nationals have entered the game as underdogs 118 times this season and won 49, or 41.5%, of those games.
• This season, Washington has won 30 of its 80 games, or 37.5%, when it’s the underdog by at least +122 on the moneyline.
• Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Nationals have a 45% chance to win.
• Games involving Washington have gone over the total set by bookmakers in 66 of 134 chances this season.
• The Nationals are 65-69-0 against the spread in their 134 chances this season.

Nationals hitting info

• C.J. Abrams leads Washington with a .269 batting average. He’s also hit 17 homers and has 53 RBI.
• Abrams ranks 85th in homers and 113th in RBI among all hitters in the majors.
• James Wood is batting .260 this season with a team-high 26 home runs and 84 RBI.
• Among all major league hitters, Wood is 24th in home runs and 16th in RBI.
• Luis Garcia has collected 108 base hits, an OBP of .297 and a slugging percentage of .407 this season.
• Josh Bell has 91 hits and an OBP of .325 to go with a slugging percentage of .386 this season.
• Bell enters this game on a five-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is batting .313 with two walks.

Nationals pitching rankings

• The Nationals strike out just 7.8 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranks 27th in MLB.
• Washington pitchers have a combined ERA of 5.37 ERA this year, which ranks 29th in MLB.
• The Nationals have a combined 1.444 WHIP as a pitching staff, second-highest in MLB.
• The Nationals have given up the 25th-fewest long balls so far this season with 178 home runs allowed.
• Washington suffered a 4-1 defeat in its most recent game, as its pitchers struck out five Rays batters while allowing five hits.