Two of baseball’s best hitters go head-to-head when the New York Mets (14-7) and the St. Louis Cardinals (9-12) play at 1:40 p.m. ET on Sunday at Citi Field. Peter Morgan Alonso has a .356 batting average (sixth in MLB) for the favored Mets (-140), while Brendan Donovan ranks fourth in MLB action hitting .361 this season for the underdog Cardinals (+119). Clay Holmes starts for New York while St. Louis will counter with Sonny Gray.

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Mets vs. Cardinals betting lines

• Favorite: Mets (-140)
• Underdog: Cardinals (+119)
• Over/under: 7.5

Mets betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Mets betting info

• The Mets have won 75% of the games this season when they were favored on the moneyline (12-4).
• New York has a 9-2 record (winning 81.8% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -140 or shorter.
• Based on this contest’s moneyline, the Mets’ implied win probability is 58.3%.
• New York has played in 21 games with over/under set, and have combined with opponents to go over the total six times (6-15-0).
• The Mets have an 11-10-0 record against the spread this season (covering 52.4% of the time).

Mets hitting info

• Alonso paces the Mets with six home runs and 23 runs batted in, while accumulating a team-high batting average of .356.
• Alonso ranks 10th in homers and second in RBI among all hitters in MLB play.
• Alonso enters this game on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .389 with three doubles, a triple, two home runs, three walks and four RBI.
• Juan Soto is batting .240 with four doubles, three home runs and 16 walks.
• Among all MLB batters, Soto ranks 64th in homers and 97th in RBI.
• Soto heads into this game on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .211 with a home run, two walks and three RBI.
• Francisco Lindor is batting .250 with four doubles, two home runs and six walks.
• Brandon Nimmo is batting .200 with three doubles, four home runs and six walks.
• Nimmo has safely hit in two games in a row. In his last five games he is batting .158 with a walk.

Mets pitching rankings

• The Mets pitching staff is fourth in the majors with a collective 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
• New York has the first-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (2.27).
• Pitchers for the Mets combine for the No. 6-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.151).
• Mets pitchers combine to allow the first-fewest home runs in baseball (nine total, 0.4 per game).
• New York defeated the Cardinals 3-0 in its last game with six strikeouts while allowing three hits.

Cardinals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Cardinals betting info

• This season, the Cardinals have won seven out of the 15 games, or 46.7%, in which they’ve been the underdog.
• St. Louis has a record of 1-4 in games where bookmakers have it as underdogs of at least +119 on the moneyline.
• The bookmakers’ moneyline implies a 45.7% chance of a victory for the Cardinals.
• So far this season, St. Louis and its opponents have hit the over in 11 of its 21 games with a total.
• The Cardinals are 11-10-0 against the spread in their 21 chances this season.

Cardinals hitting info

• Donovan leads St. Louis in runs batted in with 13 while batting .361, which is also best on the team.
• Among all batters in the majors, Donovan ranks 64th in homers and 29th in RBI.
• Nolan James Arenado has 21 hits and an OBP of .395 to go with a slugging percentage of .452 this season.
• Among all MLB hitters, Arenado ranks 112th in homers and 70th in RBI.
• Lars Nootbaar is slashing .253/.391/.413 this season for the Cardinals.
• Victor Scott II is batting .242 with an OBP of .311 and a slugging percentage of .348 this season.

Cardinals pitching rankings

• The Cardinals strike out just seven batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, worst in MLB.
• St. Louis has pitched to a 4.09 ERA this season, which ranks 17th in baseball.
• The Cardinals have a combined WHIP of just 1.168 as a pitching staff, which is the eighth-best in baseball this season.
• The Cardinals have allowed the third-fewest home runs this season at just 16, or 0.8 per game.
• St. Louis suffered a 3-0 defeat in its most recent game, as its pitchers struck out seven Mets batters while allowing eight hits.