A pair of baseball’s best hitters go head-to-head when the New York Yankees (78-62) and the Toronto Blue Jays (81-59) play at 7:05 p.m. ET on Friday at Yankee Stadium. Aaron Judge has a .322 batting average (first in MLB) for the favored Yankees (-136), and Bo Bichette ranks third in MLB play batting .307 this season for the underdog Blue Jays (+114). New York has Cam Schlittler starting things off, while Toronto counters with Kevin Gausman.

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Yankees vs. Blue Jays betting lines

• Favorite: Yankees (-136)
• Underdog: Blue Jays (+114)
• Over/under: 8.5

Yankees betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Yankees betting info

• The Yankees have won 57.6% of the games this season when they were the moneyline favorite (68-50).
• When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -136 or shorter, New York has gone 56-37 (60.2%).
• The Yankees have an implied moneyline win probability of 57.6% in this game.
• In the 139 games in which oddsmakers have set an over/under for New York, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 68 times (68-65-6).
• The Yankees have gone 64-75-0 ATS this season.

Yankees hitting info

• Judge has accumulated a team-best batting average of .322, while leading the Yankees in home runs (43) and runs batted in (97).
• Among hitters in MLB, Judge ranks fourth in home runs and seventh in RBI.
• Cody Bellinger is hitting .278 with 23 doubles, five triples, 27 home runs and 43 walks.
• Bellinger currently ranks 24th in home runs and 18th in RBI in the bigs.
• Bellinger has hit safely in five straight games. During his last five outings he is hitting .208 with a double, a home run, a walk and six RBIs.
• Trent Grisham has nine doubles, a triple, 30 home runs and 68 walks while batting .248.
• Jazz Chisholm is batting .242 with 13 doubles, a triple, 28 home runs and 54 walks.

Yankees pitching rankings

• The Yankees pitching staff ranks third in the majors with a collective 9.1 strikeouts per nine innings.
• New York has the 14th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (3.93).
• Pitchers for the Yankees combine for the 12th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.261).
• The Yankees give up the 11th-fewest home runs in baseball (152 total, 1.1 per game).
• In its 8-4 win last time out, New York struck out 10 Astros batters while allowing 10 hits.

Blue Jays betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Blue Jays betting info

• The Blue Jays have entered the game as underdogs 69 times this season and won 40, or 58%, of those games.
• This season, Toronto has won 16 of its 28 games, or 57.1%, when it’s the underdog by at least +114 on the moneyline.
• The bookmakers’ moneyline implies a 46.7% chance of a victory for the Blue Jays.
• So far this season, Toronto and its opponents have hit the over in 78 of its 139 games with a total.
• The Blue Jays are 81-58-0 ATS in their 139 games with a spread this season.

Blue Jays hitting info

• Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is batting .293 with 22 home runs and 77 RBI for Toronto this season.
• Among all batters in the majors, Guerrero’s home run total is 48th, and his RBI total is 34th.
• Guerrero heads into this matchup on a four-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .368 with a double, a home run, four walks and five RBIs.
• Bichette leads Toronto in batting average (.307) and runs batted in (91) this season while also slugging 18 homers.
• Among all major league hitters, Bichette ranks 81st in home runs and 12th in RBI.
• George Springer has an average of .307 this year with 27 homers and 72 RBI.
• Springer heads into this game on a four-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .421 with a double, three home runs, four walks and five RBIs.
• Alejandro Kirk is batting .299 with an OBP of .363 and a slugging percentage of .433 this season.
• Kirk takes a three-game hitting streak into this game. In his last five games he is batting .300 with three doubles, a home run, two walks and five RBIs.

Blue Jays pitching rankings

• The Blue Jays have a nine K/9 this season as a pitching staff, fifth-best in baseball.
• Toronto has pitched to a 4.29 ERA this season, which ranks 21st in baseball.
• Blue Jays pitchers have a 1.276 WHIP this season, 14th in the majors.
• The Blue Jays have given up the fifth-most long balls so far this season with 189 home runs allowed.
• Toronto earned a 13-9 win in its most recent game, striking out 11 Reds batters while allowing 10 hits.