The Minnesota Twins (35-31) will look to Brooks Lee, who is currently on a 10-game hitting streak, when they play the Texas Rangers (32-35). The Twins are favored on the moneyline (-137) in this outing against the Rangers (+115), which begins at 7:40 p.m. ET on Wednesday at Target Field. Minnesota’s David Festa and Texas’ Jack Leiter pitch first for their squads in this matchup.
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Twins to win vs Rangers -137
Twins vs. Rangers betting lines
- Favorite: Twins (-137)
- Underdog: Rangers (+115)
- Over/under: 8.5
Twins betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Twins betting info
- The Twins have won 57.1% of the games this season when they were favored on the moneyline (24-18).
- In games it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -137 or shorter, Minnesota has a 15-5 record (winning 75% of its games).
- The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Twins a 57.8% chance to win.
- Minnesota has combined with opponents to hit the over on the total 26 times this season for a 26-34-5 record against the over/under.
- The Twins are 38-27-0 ATS this season.
Twins hitting info
- Trevor Larnach has a team-best 10 home runs.
- Larnach’s home runs rank 49th in MLB and he ranks 69th in RBI in MLB.
- Byron Buxton’s 10 home runs and 38 runs batted in both pace his team.
- Buxton ranks 49th in home runs and 35th in RBI among MLB batters this season.
- Ty France paces the Twins with a team-high batting average of .278.
- France enters this matchup on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .333 with two doubles, two walks and four RBIs.
- Ryan Jeffers has 13 doubles, four home runs and 23 walks while hitting .256.
- Jeffers takes a two-game hitting streak into this game. In his last five games he is batting .357 with a home run, four walks and three RBIs.
Twins pitching rankings
- The nine strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Twins pitching staff ranks sixth in the majors.
- Minnesota has a 3.68 team ERA that ranks 11th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Twins have the sixth-lowest WHIP in baseball (1.194).
- The Twins surrender the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (66 total, one per game).
- Minnesota struck out four Rangers batters while giving up 17 hits in a 16-4 loss in its last game.
Rangers betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Rangers betting info
- This season, the Rangers have been the underdog 33 times and won 10, or 30.3%, of those games.
- Texas has a record of 2-14, a 12.5% win rate, when it’s set as an underdog of +115 or more by oddsmakers this season.
- The implied probability of a win by the Rangers, based on the moneyline, is 46.5%.
- Texas and its opponents have gone over the total this season in 21 of its 67 opportunities.
- The Rangers have an ATS record of 37-30-0 in 67 games with a spread this season.
Rangers hitting info
- Wyatt Langford is batting .235 this season with a team-high 12 home runs.
- Langford ranks 30th in homers and 106th in RBI among all hitters in MLB.
- Josh Smith leads Texas in batting with a .276 average while slugging five homers and driving in 17 runs.
- Smith ranks 162nd among batters in MLB in home runs, and 208th in RBI.
- Smith enters this game on a two-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is hitting .368 with a double, a walk and an RBI.
- Marcus Semien has collected 50 base hits, an OBP of .305 and a slugging percentage of .314 this season.
- Semien heads into this game on a three-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is batting .421 with a double, two home runs, two walks and six RBIs.
- Josh Jung is batting .259 with an OBP of .305 and a slugging percentage of .406 this season.
Rangers pitching rankings
- The Rangers strike out eight batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 22nd in MLB.
- Texas has the third-best ERA (3.13) in the majors this season.
- The Rangers have a combined 1.137 WHIP as a pitching staff, which is the best in baseball this season.
- The Rangers have allowed the fifth-fewest home runs this season at just 57, or 0.9 per game.
- Last time out, Texas defeated the Twins, 16-4, with four strikeouts and 12 hits allowed.
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