The Baltimore Orioles and the Kansas City Royals square off for Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series on Wednesday at 4:38 p.m. ET at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The Royals have a 1-0 series lead. Zach Eflin takes the mound first for Baltimore, and Seth Lugo is Kansas City’s choice to start.
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Orioles vs. Royals betting lines
- Favorite: Orioles (-158)
- Underdog: Royals (+133)
- Over/under: 7.5
Orioles betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Orioles betting info
- The Orioles have won 67 of the 118 games they were the moneyline favorite this season (56.8%).
- Baltimore has a 32-21 record (winning 60.4% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -158 or shorter.
- Based on this game’s moneyline, the Orioles’ implied win probability is 61.2%.
- In the 161 games in which bookmakers have set an over/under for Baltimore, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 86 times (86-62-13).
- The Orioles have an 85-76-0 record ATS this season (covering 52.8% of the time).
Orioles hitting info
- Gunnar Henderson paces the Orioles with a team-high batting average of .281.
- In MLB action, Henderson ranks ninth in homers and 22nd in RBI.
- Anthony Santander has hit 44 home runs with 102 runs batted in. Both pace his team.
- Santander ranks third in homers and 14th in RBI this year.
- Adley Rutschman has 21 doubles, a triple, 19 home runs and 58 walks while batting .250.
- Ryan O’Hearn is hitting .264 with 21 doubles, three triples, 15 home runs and 46 walks.
Orioles pitching rankings
- The Orioles pitching staff is 15th in the majors with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Baltimore has a 3.95 team ERA that ranks 14th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Pitchers for the Orioles combine for the No. 10-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.238).
- Orioles pitchers combine to allow the 11th-fewest home runs in baseball (175 total, 1.1 per game).
- Baltimore fell to the Royals 1-0 in its last game with four strikeouts while allowing five hits.
Royals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Royals betting info
- This season, the Royals have been the underdog 82 times and won 36, or 43.9%, of those games.
- Kansas City has a record of 8-16, a 33.3% win rate, when it’s set as an underdog of +133 or more by bookmakers this season.
- The oddsmakers’ moneyline implies a 42.9% chance of a victory for the Royals.
- Kansas City’s games have gone over the total in 69 of its 163 chances.
- The Royals have an ATS record of 88-75-0 in 163 games with a spread this season.
Royals hitting info
- Bobby Witt Jr. is batting .332 with 32 home runs and 109 RBI. All three of those stats are tops among Kansas City hitters this season.
- Among all hitters in MLB, Witt’s home run total is 16th, and his RBI total is sixth.
- Witt brings a four-game hitting streak into this game. During his last five outings he is batting .211 with two walks and two RBI.
- Vinnie Pasquantino is batting .262 with an OBP of .315 and a slugging percentage of .446 this season.
- Pasquantino ranks 90th in homers and 19th in RBI among all MLB hitters this year.
- Salvador Perez is slashing .271/.330/.456 this season for the Royals.
- Perez enters this game on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .286 with a double and an RBI.
- Maikel Garcia has 133 hits and an OBP of .281 to go with a slugging percentage of .332 this season.
Royals pitching rankings
- The Royals strike out 8.5 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 18th in MLB.
- Kansas City has the eighth-best ERA (3.76) in the majors this season.
- The Royals have a combined WHIP of 1.245 as a pitching staff, which ranks 13th in MLB.
- No team has allowed fewer than the 146 homers the Royals have given up so far this year.
- Kansas City pitchers struck out 10 Orioles batters while allowing five hits in a 1-0 win last time out.