The Boston Red Sox (12-19) and the Houston Astros (12-20) take the field on Friday at Fenway Park, beginning at 7:10 p.m. ET. The Red Sox are moneyline favorites (-113), while the Astros are -106 underdogs, even though they are favored against the spread (1.5) with +146 odds. Boston has Jake Bennett set to start, and Houston will send out Mike Burrows.

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Red Sox vs. Astros betting lines

• Favorite: Red Sox (-113)
• Underdog: Astros (-106)
• Over/under: 9.5

Red Sox betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Red Sox betting info

• The Red Sox have been favored on the moneyline 20 total times this season. They’ve gone 9-11 in those games.
• In games it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -113 or shorter, Boston has a 9-11 record (winning 45% of its games).
• Based on this game’s moneyline, the Red Sox have an implied win probability of 53.1%.
• In the 31 games in which oddsmakers have set an over/under for Boston, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 15 times (15-15-1).
• The Red Sox have a 10-21-0 record against the spread this season.

Red Sox hitting info

• Wilyer Abreu has put up a team-best batting average of .307.
• Abreu’s home runs rank 69th in MLB and he ranks 118th in RBI in MLB.
• Willson Contreras has hit seven home runs with 20 RBI. Both lead his team.
• Contreras ranks 23rd in homers and 23rd in RBI among hitters in MLB play.
• Contreras takes a five-game hitting streak into this game. In his last five games he is hitting .368 with a double, three home runs, two walks and eight RBIs.
• Caleb Durbin has six doubles, a home run and 10 walks while batting .172.
• Ceddanne Rafaela is hitting .263 with four doubles, two triples, a home run and six walks.

Red Sox pitching rankings

• The pitching staff for the Red Sox has a collective 8.2 K/9, which ranks 19th in MLB.
• Boston has the 22nd-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.35).
• The Red Sox average baseball’s 15th-ranked WHIP (1.313).
• Red Sox pitchers combine to allow 41 total home runs at a clip of 1.3 per game (fourth-most in baseball).
• Boston struck out three Blue Jays batters while giving up 10 hits in an 8-1 loss in its last game.

Astros betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Astros betting info

• This season, the Astros have been the underdog 16 times and won seven, or 43.8%, of those games.
• Houston has a record of 7-9 in games where sportsbooks have it as underdogs of at least -106 on the moneyline.
• The implied probability of a win by the Astros, based on the moneyline, is 51.5%.
• Houston’s games have gone over the total in 23 of its 32 chances.
• The Astros are 12-20-0 against the spread this season.

Astros hitting info

• Yordan Alvarez is batting .356 with 12 home runs and 27 RBI. All three of those stats are tops among Houston hitters this season.
• Alvarez ranks first in home runs and fourth in RBI among all batters in the majors.
• Christian Walker has collected 34 hits this season and has an OBP of .366. He’s slugging .552 on the year.
• Walker ranks 23rd in home runs and 12th in RBI among all hitters in the big leagues.
• Carlos Correa has collected 29 base hits, an OBP of .361 and a slugging percentage of .396 this season.
• Correa enters this matchup on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .222 with a double, a home run, three walks and an RBI.
• Jose Altuve has 28 hits and an OBP of .349 to go with a slugging percentage of .393 this season.

Astros pitching rankings

• The Astros average 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, second-most in the majors.
• Houston has the 30th-ranked ERA (6.08) in the majors this season.
• The Astros have a combined WHIP of 1.640 as a pitching staff, which is worst in baseball this season.
• The Astros have given up the second-most long balls so far this season with 46 home runs allowed.
• Houston earned an 11-5 win in its most recent game, striking out 14 Orioles batters while allowing six hits.