The New York Yankees visit the Cleveland Guardians for Game 3 of the ALCS on Thursday at 5:08 p.m. ET at Progressive Field. The Yankees have a 2-0 series lead. New York is projected to start Clarke Schmidt, while Cleveland has not named a starter.
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Money Line
Bet $20, Payout $37.09
Yankees to win vs Guardians -117
Yankees vs. Guardians betting lines
- Favorite: Yankees (-117)
- Underdog: Guardians (-102)
- Over/under: 7
Yankees betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Yankees betting info
- The Yankees have won 58.1% of the games this season when they were favored on the moneyline (79-57).
- New York has gone 74-54 when playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -117 or shorter (57.8% winning percentage).
- The Yankees have an implied moneyline win probability of 53.9% in this matchup.
- New York has combined with opponents to go over the total 87 times this season for an 87-75-4 record against the over/under.
- The Yankees have collected an 83-82-0 record ATS this season (covering 50.3% of the time).
Yankees hitting info
- Aaron Judge leads the Yankees with 58 home runs and 144 runs batted in, while putting up a team-high batting average of .322.
- In MLB play, Judge ranks first in homers and first in RBI.
- Juan Soto is batting .288 with 31 doubles, four triples, 41 home runs and 129 walks.
- Soto ranks fourth in home runs and sixth in RBI this year.
- Soto has safely hit in three games in a row. In his last five games he is hitting .267 with a home run, five walks and three RBI.
- Jazz Chisholm is batting .256 with 21 doubles, four triples, 24 home runs and 53 walks.
- Gleyber Torres is hitting .257 with 26 doubles, 15 home runs and 65 walks.
- Torres heads into this game on a three-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .286 with two doubles, four walks and an RBI.
Yankees pitching rankings
- The Yankees pitching staff is sixth in MLB with a collective 9.0 strikeouts per nine innings.
- New York’s 3.75 team ERA ranks seventh across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Yankees average MLB’s 12th-ranked WHIP (1.244).
- The Yankees allow the 13th-fewest home runs in baseball (181 total, 1.1 per game).
- In its 6-3 win last time out, New York struck out seven Guardians batters while allowing eight hits.
Guardians betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Guardians betting info
- This season, the Guardians have been the underdog 62 times and won 28, or 45.2%, of those games.
- Cleveland has a record of 20-33, a 37.7% win rate, when it’s set as an underdog of -102 or more by bookmakers this season.
- The implied probability of a win by the Guardians, based on the moneyline, is 50.5%.
- So far this season, Cleveland and its opponents have hit the over in 73 of its 168 games with a total.
- The Guardians have an ATS record of 85-82-0 in 167 games with a spread this season.
Guardians hitting info
- Jose Ramirez leads Cleveland in home runs with 39 and runs batted in with 118.
- Ramirez’s home run total ranks fifth in the majors, and he is third in RBI.
- Josh Naylor has 137 hits and an OBP of .320 to go with a slugging percentage of .456 this season.
- Naylor currently is 18th in home runs and eighth in RBI in the big leagues.
- Steven Kwan’s batting average of .292 leads all Cleveland hitters this season.
- Kwan has safely hit in seven games in a row. During his last 10 outings he is batting .444 with a double, a home run, seven walks and two RBI.
- Andres Gimenez is batting .252 with an OBP of .298 and a slugging percentage of .340 this season.
Guardians pitching rankings
- The Guardians average 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, ninth-most in the majors.
- Cleveland has pitched to a 3.61 ERA this season, which ranks third in baseball.
- The Guardians have a combined WHIP of just 1.202 as a pitching staff, which is the fourth-best in baseball this season.
- With 179 homers allowed, the Guardians rank 12th in the league at preventing long balls.
- Cleveland suffered a 6-3 defeat in its most recent game, as its pitchers struck out seven Yankees batters while allowing 11 hits.
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