Juan Soto will try to hit his 40th home run this season when his New York Mets (76-72) host the Texas Rangers (78-70) at Citi Field on Saturday, beginning at 4:10 p.m. ET. Soto’s Mets are favored (-161) in the outing against the Rangers (+135). New York’s Brandon Sproat and Texas’ Patrick Corbin pitch first for their squads in this matchup.

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Mets vs. Rangers betting lines

• Favorite: Mets (-161)
• Underdog: Rangers (+135)
• Over/under: 8.5

Mets betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Mets betting info

• The Mets have won 56.3% of the games this season when they were favored on the moneyline (58-45).
• In games it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -161 or shorter, New York has gone 27-19 (58.7%).
• The Mets have a 61.7% chance to win this game based on the moneyline’s implied probability.
• New York has had an over/under set by bookmakers 148 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 70 of those games (70-70-8).
• The Mets have collected a 67-81-0 record ATS this season.

Mets hitting info

• Soto has a team-best 39 homers.
• Soto ranks seventh in home runs and 11th in RBI among all hitters in MLB action.
• Francisco Lindor is batting .263 with 33 doubles, 26 home runs and 54 walks.
• Lindor ranks 34th in home runs and 44th in RBI this year.
• Lindor takes a two-game hitting streak into this matchup. In his last five games he is batting .105 with a double and a walk.
• Pete Alonso has a team-best batting average of .265 while pacing the Mets in runs batted in (114).
• Brandon Nimmo is batting .259 with 27 doubles, 22 home runs and 48 walks.

Mets pitching rankings

• The pitching staff for the Mets has a collective 8.8 K/9, the ninth-best in MLB.
• New York has the 18th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.05).
• The Mets average baseball’s 24th-ranked WHIP (1.340).
• The Mets give up the second-fewest home runs in baseball (135 total, 0.9 per game).
• New York struck out three Rangers batters while allowing 11 hits in an 8-3 loss in its last game.

Rangers betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Rangers betting info

• This season, the Rangers have been the underdog 73 times and won 29, or 39.7%, of those games.
• Texas has entered eight games this season as the underdog by +135 or more and is 1-7 in those contests.
• The bookmakers’ moneyline implies a 42.6% chance of a victory for the Rangers.
• So far this season, Texas and its opponents have hit the over in 66 of its 148 games with a total.
• The Rangers are 82-66-0 against the spread in their 148 chances this season.

Rangers hitting info

• Wyatt Langford leads Texas with 21 home runs this season. He’s batting .242 with 60 RBI.
• Langford’s home run total ranks 60th in the big leagues, and he is 104th in RBI.
• Josh Smith’s batting average of .256 leads all Texas hitters this season.
• Smith is 210th in homers and 241st in RBI among all hitters in MLB.
• Smith has safely hit in three games in a row. During his last five outings he is batting .364 with a double and four walks.
• Josh Jung has 108 hits this season and a slash line of .252/.295/.393.
• Jake Burger has 81 hits and an OBP of .282 to go with a slugging percentage of .448 this season.
• Burger heads into this game on a two-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is batting .389 with three home runs, two walks and five RBIs.

Rangers pitching rankings

• The Rangers have an 8.4 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 16th in the big leagues.
• Texas has the lowest ERA in baseball at 3.44.
• The Rangers have a combined 1.170 WHIP as a pitching staff, which is the best in baseball this season.
• With just 156 homers allowed, the Rangers rank ninth in the league at preventing long balls.
• Texas pitchers struck out five Mets batters while allowing five hits in an 8-3 win last time out.