Oddsmakers give the Boston Red Sox (45-48) the edge (-125 on the moneyline) to continue their eight-game winning streak when they meet the New York Mets (40-56), at +103, on Sunday at 1:40 p.m. ET. Boston’s Payton Tolle gets the start against New York’s Zach Thornton.

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Red Sox vs. Mets betting lines

• Favorite: Red Sox (-125)
• Underdog: Mets (+103)
• Over/under: 8.5

Red Sox betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Red Sox betting info

• The Red Sox have been favored on the moneyline 57 total times this season. They’ve gone 26-31 in those games.
• When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -125 or shorter, Boston has a record of 17-22 (43.6%).
• Based on this game’s moneyline, the Red Sox have an implied win probability of 55.6%.
• Boston has played in 93 games with over/under set, and have combined with opponents to go over the total 41 times (41-47-5).
• The Red Sox have a 44-49-0 record ATS this season (covering 47.3% of the time).

Red Sox hitting info

• Wilyer Abreu has 20 doubles, three triples, 11 home runs and 39 walks while batting .264.
• Abreu ranks 91st in homers and 78th in RBI among all batters in MLB.
• Ceddanne Rafaela is hitting .282 with 22 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 18 walks.
• Rafaela ranks 150th in homers and 102nd in RBI this season.
• Rafaela has safely hit in two straight games. In his last five games he is hitting .273 with two doubles, a home run, a walk and three RBIs.
• Caleb Durbin is batting .230 with 18 doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 21 walks.
• Durbin brings a four-game hitting streak into this game. In his last five games he is hitting .316 with a double, a home run, two walks and two RBIs.
• Jarren Duran is batting .193 with 10 doubles, two triples, 13 home runs and 27 walks.

Red Sox pitching rankings

• The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Red Sox pitching staff ranks 13th in the majors.
• Boston’s 3.61 team ERA ranks fourth among all MLB pitching staffs.
• Red Sox pitchers combine for the No. 8 WHIP in MLB (1.230).
• The Red Sox surrender the fifth-fewest home runs in baseball (95 total, 1.0 per game).
• Boston took down the Mets 4-0 in its last game with eight strikeouts while allowing three hits.

Mets betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Mets betting info

• The Mets have entered the game as underdogs 33 times this season and won eight, or 24.2%, of those games.
• New York has a record of 5-16, a 23.8% win rate, when it’s set as an underdog of +103 or more by sportsbooks this season.
• The moneyline for this contest implies a 49.3% chance of a victory for the Mets.
• So far this season, New York and its opponents have hit the over in 45 of its 96 games with a total.
• The Mets are 41-55-0 against the spread in their 96 chances this season.

Mets hitting info

• Juan Soto leads New York in home runs with 21, runs batted in with 51 and his batting average of .294 is also best on his team.
• Among all hitters in the majors, Soto’s home run total is 12th, and his RBI total is 42nd.
• Bo Bichette leads New York in runs batted in with 51 while batting .256 with 10 homers.
• Bichette ranks 107th among hitters in the big leagues in home runs, and 42nd in RBI.
• Carson Benge is slashing .266/.330/.407 this season for the Mets.
• A.J. Ewing has 53 hits and an OBP of .352 to go with a slugging percentage of .438 this season.

Mets pitching rankings

• The Mets average 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, third-most in the big leagues.
• New York pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.32 ERA this year, which ranks 18th in MLB.
• The Mets have a combined WHIP of 1.320 as a pitching staff, which ranks 16th in MLB.
• The Mets have allowed the 16th-fewest home runs this season with 107, or 1.1 per game.
• Last time out, New York fell to the Red Sox 4-0. Its pitchers compiled nine strikeouts and six hits allowed.