The Detroit Tigers (37-49) match up with the Texas Rangers (44-42) a game after Riley Greene homered twice in a 9-3 win over the Yankees. The Rangers are favored (-134) in this matchup with the Tigers (+113), which starts at 8:05 p.m. ET on Thursday. Texas’ Nathan Eovaldi gets the start against Detroit’s Framber Valdez.
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Rangers to win vs Tigers -134
Rangers vs. Tigers betting lines
- Favorite: Rangers (-134)
- Underdog: Tigers (+113)
- Over/under: 7.5
Rangers betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Rangers betting info
- The Rangers have won 22 of the 43 games they were listed as the moneyline favorite this season (51.2%).
- When playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -134 or shorter, Texas has gone 4-10 (28.6%).
- Based on this matchup’s moneyline, the Rangers have an implied win probability of 57.3%.
- Texas has had an over/under set by bookmakers 86 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 38 of those games (38-40-8).
- The Rangers have a 41-45-0 record ATS this season (covering 47.7% of the time).
Rangers hitting info
- Josh Jung has racked up a team-best batting average of .297.
- In baseball, Jung ranks 109th in home runs and 129th in RBI.
- Jung has safely hit in four games in a row. During his last five outings he is batting .318 with three doubles, a home run, a walk and an RBI.
- Jake Burger has shown off his power as he leads his team with 14 home runs and 52 runs batted in.
- Burger ranks 40th in homers and 23rd in RBI among hitters in MLB.
- Brandon Nimmo is hitting .262 with 20 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 29 walks.
- Joc Pederson’s 14 home runs pace his team.
- Pederson takes a two-game hitting streak into this game. During his last five outings he is batting .238 with four home runs, two walks and five RBIs.
Rangers pitching rankings
- The pitching staff for the Rangers has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 11th in the majors.
- Texas has the 10th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.93).
- Pitchers for the Rangers combine for the No. 7-ranked WHIP in baseball (1.233).
- Rangers pitchers combine to surrender 102 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (21st-fewest in the majors).
- Texas knocked off the Guardians 4-2 in its last game with 12 strikeouts while allowing five hits.
Tigers betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching
Tigers betting info
- This season, the Tigers have won 16 out of the 40 games, or 40%, in which they’ve been the underdog.
- Detroit is 6-7 this season when entering a game as the underdog by +113 or more on the moneyline.
- The Tigers have a 46.9% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- So far this season, Detroit and its opponents have hit the over in 39 of its 86 games with a total.
- The Tigers are 44-42-0 ATS in their 86 games with a spread this season.
Tigers hitting info
- Kevin McGonigle is batting .283 with six home runs and 30 RBI for Detroit this season.
- McGonigle is 178th in homers and 148th in RBI among all batters in MLB.
- Dillon Dingler leads Detroit in home runs (19) and runs batted in (59) this season while batting .264.
- Dingler ranks 13th in home runs and fifth in RBI among all major league hitters this season.
- Dingler takes a two-game hitting streak into this matchup. During his last five outings he is hitting .211 with two doubles and two RBIs.
- Greene leads Detroit with a .288 batting average while slugging 11 homers and driving in 37 runs.
- Spencer Torkelson is batting .218 with an OBP of .316 and a slugging percentage of .428 this season.
- Torkelson heads into this game on a four-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .353 with a double, two home runs, two walks and six RBIs.
Tigers pitching rankings
- The Tigers strike out 8.4 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 18th in MLB.
- Detroit has the eighth-best ERA (3.78) in the majors this season.
- Tigers pitchers have a 1.234 WHIP this season, eighth-best in the majors.
- The Tigers have given up the ninth-fewest long balls so far this season with only 87 home runs allowed.
- Detroit earned a 9-3 win in its most recent game, striking out 11 Yankees batters while allowing four hits.
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