The New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals meet for Game 4 of the ALDS on Thursday at 8:08 p.m. ET at Kauffman Stadium. The Yankees are ahead 2-1 in the series and can clinch with a victory. Gerrit Cole starts for New York, and Michael Wacha is Kansas City’s choice to start.

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Yankees vs. Royals betting lines

• Favorite: Yankees (-155)
• Underdog: Royals (+130)
• Over/under: 7.5

Yankees betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Yankees betting info

• The Yankees have won 76 of the 133 games they were listed as the moneyline favorite this season (57.1%).
• New York has a record of 44-29 when it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -155 or shorter (60.3% winning percentage).
• The Yankees have a 60.8% chance to win this contest based on the moneyline’s implied probability.
• New York has played in 163 games with set over/under, and have combined with opponents to go over the total 86 times (86-73-4).
• The Yankees have gone 80-82-0 against the spread this season.

Yankees hitting info

• Aaron Judge paces the Yankees with 58 home runs and 144 runs batted in, while putting up a team-best batting average of .322.
• Among hitters in baseball, Judge ranks first in home runs and first in RBI.
• Juan Soto is batting .288 with 31 doubles, four triples, 41 home runs and 129 walks.
• Soto ranks fourth in homers and sixth in RBI among hitters in MLB.
• Jazz Chisholm is hitting .256 with 21 doubles, four triples, 24 home runs and 53 walks.
• Gleyber Torres is batting .257 with 26 doubles, 15 home runs and 65 walks.

Yankees pitching rankings

• The nine strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Yankees pitching staff ranks sixth in the majors.
• New York’s 3.75 team ERA ranks seventh among all MLB pitching staffs.
• Pitchers for the Yankees combine for the 12th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.244).
• The Yankees allow the 13th-fewest home runs in baseball (181 total, 1.1 per game).
• In its 3-2 win last time out, New York struck out five Royals batters while allowing six hits.

Royals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Royals betting info

• The Royals have been underdogs in 86 games this season and won 38 (44.2%) of those contests.
• This season, Kansas City has won eight of its 26 games, or 30.8%, when it’s the underdog by at least +130 on the moneyline.
• Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Royals have a 43.5% chance to win.
• So far this season, Kansas City and its opponents have hit the over in 70 of its 167 games with a total.
• The Royals are 92-75-0 against the spread this season.

Royals hitting info

• Bobby Witt Jr. leads Kansas City in home runs with 32, runs batted in with 109 and his batting average of .332 is also best on his team.
• Among all hitters in the big leagues, Witt is 16th in home runs and sixth in RBI.
• Vinnie Pasquantino has collected 130 hits this season and has an OBP of .315. He’s slugging .446 on the year.
• Pasquantino ranks 91st overall in homers and 19th in RBI this year.
• Salvador Perez has collected 160 base hits, an OBP of .330 and a slugging percentage of .456 this season.
• Perez has hit safely in six straight games. In his last 10 games he is hitting .268 with a double, a home run, a walk and two RBI.
• Maikel Garcia is batting .231 with an OBP of .281 and 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.
• Royals pitchers have a 1.245 WHIP this season, 13th in the majors.
• No team has allowed fewer than the 146 homers the Royals have given up so far this year.
• Kansas City pitchers struck out five Yankees hitters while allowing four base hits in a 3-2 loss its last time out.