A pair of baseball’s top power hitters face off when the New York Yankees (30-22) and the Tampa Bay Rays (34-15) play at 1:35 p.m. ET on Saturday at Yankee Stadium. Ben Rice has 16 homers (third in the majors) for the favored Yankees (-142), and Junior Caminero ranks eighth in MLB play with 13 dingers this season for the Rays (+119). New York’s Ryan Weathers gets the start against Tampa Bay’s Drew Rasmussen.

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Yankees vs. Rays betting lines

• Favorite: Yankees (-142)
• Underdog: Rays (+119)
• Over/under: 7

Yankees betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Yankees betting info

• The Yankees have won 28 of the 48 games they were the moneyline favorite this season (58.3%).
• New York has gone 19-12 (winning 61.3% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -142 or shorter.
• Based on this contest’s moneyline, the Yankees have an implied win probability of 58.7%.
• New York has played in 52 games with an over/under set, and have combined with its opponents to go over the total 22 times (22-27-3).
• The Yankees have collected a 25-27-0 record ATS this season (covering 48.1% of the time).

Yankees hitting info

• Cody Bellinger is batting .273 with 13 doubles, three triples, six home runs and 34 walks.
• Bellinger’s home runs rank 79th in MLB and he ranks 18th in RBI in MLB.
• Rice has put his power on display as he leads his team with 16 home runs and 33 RBI, with a team-leading .287 batting average.
• Rice ranks third in home runs among hitters in baseball and 13th in RBI.
• Rice enters this game on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .190 with a double, a home run and two RBIs.
• Aaron Judge has collected a team-best 16 home runs.
• Trent Grisham has nine doubles, a triple, six home runs and 30 walks while hitting .188.
• Grisham has hit safely in three straight games. During his last five outings he is hitting .357 with three doubles and two walks.

Yankees pitching rankings

• The 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Yankees pitching staff ranks seventh in MLB.
• New York’s 3.32 team ERA ranks fourth across all MLB pitching staffs.
• Pitchers for the Yankees combine for the No. 3-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.179).
• Yankees pitchers combine to allow 40 home runs (0.8 per game), the second-fewest in the majors.
• New York lost to the Rays 4-2 in its last game with seven strikeouts while allowing eight hits.

Rays betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Rays betting info

• This season, the Rays have won 13 out of the 22 games, or 59.1%, in which they’ve been the underdog.
• Tampa Bay has a record of 5-1 when it’s set as an underdog of +119 or more by sportsbooks this season.
• The implied probability of a win by the Rays, based on the moneyline, is 45.7%.
• Tampa Bay and its opponents have hit the over in 24 of its 49 games with a total this season.
• In 49 games with a spread this season, the Rays are 31-18-0 ATS.

Rays hitting info

• Caminero leads Tampa Bay with 13 home runs this season. He’s batting .267 with 27 RBI.
• In all of MLB, Caminero ranks eighth in home runs and 45th in RBI.
• Caminero enters this game on a six-game hitting streak. In his last 10 games he is hitting .325 with two doubles, two home runs, seven walks and eight RBIs.
• Yandy Diaz is batting .311 to lead Tampa Bay, while adding eight homers and 33 runs batted in this season.
• Diaz ranks 44th among hitters in MLB in home runs, and 13th in RBI.
• Jonathan Aranda is among the top hitters for Tampa Bay with a .263 average, eight homers and 38 RBI.
• Aranda has hit safely in two straight games. In his last five games he is hitting .150 with two doubles, two walks and four RBIs.
• Chandler Simpson has collected 55 hits this season and has an OBP of .323. He’s slugging .344 on the year.

Rays pitching rankings

• The Rays average just 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, which ranks 26th in the big leagues.
• Tampa Bay has the fifth-best ERA (3.54) in the majors this season.
• The Rays have a combined 1.190 WHIP as a pitching staff, fifth-lowest in MLB.
• The Rays have allowed the 14th-fewest home runs this season with 52, or 1.1 per game.
• Last time out, Tampa Bay defeated the Yankees, 4-2, with four strikeouts and 11 hits allowed.