The Kansas City Royals (46-48) meet the New York Mets (53-41) a game after Salvador Perez homered twice in a 4-3 win over the Pirates. The Mets are favored (-135) in this matchup with the Royals (+113), which starts at 4:10 p.m. ET on Saturday. Frankie Montas starts for New York while Kansas City will counter with Michael Lorenzen.

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Mets vs. Royals betting lines

• Favorite: Mets (-135)
• Underdog: Royals (+113)
• Over/under: 9.5

Mets betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Mets betting info

• The Mets have won 63.6% of the games this season when they were the moneyline favorite (42-24).
• New York has a record of 31-17 when it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -135 or shorter (64.6% winning percentage).
• The Mets have an implied moneyline win probability of 57.4% in this matchup.
• New York has had an over/under set by bookmakers 94 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 42 of those games (42-50-2).
• The Mets are 45-49-0 against the spread this season.

Mets hitting info

• Juan Soto leads the Mets with 21 home runs.
• Among all hitters in MLB play, Soto’s home run total ranks 11th and his RBI tally ranks 33rd.
• Pete Alonso has shown off his power as he leads his team with 21 home runs and 76 runs batted in, with a team-high .284 batting average.
• Alonso ranks 11th in home runs among hitters in MLB play and fourth in RBI.
• Francisco Lindor is hitting .261 with 18 doubles, 18 home runs and 32 walks.
• Lindor heads into this game on a five-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is hitting .316 with two doubles, a home run, three walks and five RBIs.
• Brandon Nimmo has 17 doubles, 18 home runs and 26 walks while hitting .260.
• Nimmo enters this game on a three-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is hitting .368 with a double, a home run, a walk and five RBIs.

Mets pitching rankings

• The Mets pitching staff is eighth in the majors with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
• New York has the sixth-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (3.60).
• Pitchers for the Mets combine for the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.306).
• Mets pitchers combine to allow the second-fewest home runs in baseball (82 total, 0.9 per game).
• New York struck out six Orioles batters while allowing nine hits in a 7-3 loss in its last game.

Royals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Royals betting info

• This season, the Royals have been the underdog 59 times and won 28, or 47.5%, of those games.
• Kansas City is 14-16 this season when entering a game as the underdog by +113 or more on the moneyline.
• The moneyline for this contest implies a 46.9% chance of a victory for the Royals.
• Kansas City’s games have gone over the total in 36 of its 94 chances.
• The Royals are 49-45-0 against the spread this season.

Royals hitting info

• Bobby Witt Jr. has been key for Kansas City with 13 home runs, 52 RBI and a batting average of .295 this season.
• Among all hitters in the big leagues, Witt ranks 65th in homers and 42nd in RBI.
• Witt takes a 13-game hitting streak into this game. In his last 10 outings he is hitting .385 with two doubles, two home runs, three walks and nine RBIs.
• Maikel Garcia’s batting average of .305 leads all Kansas City hitters this season.
• Garcia ranks 147th in homers and 93rd in RBI among all MLB hitters this season.
• Garcia brings a six-game hitting streak into this game. In his last 10 outings he is batting .256 with two doubles, three walks and two RBIs.
• Vinnie Pasquantino leads Kansas City in home runs with 15 and runs batted in with 56.
• Pasquantino has safely hit in four games in a row. In his last five games he is batting .250 with three doubles, a home run and an RBI.
• Perez is batting .245 with an OBP of .285 and a slugging percentage of .427 this season.
• Perez heads into this game on a four-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is batting .412 with a double, four home runs and five RBIs.

Royals pitching rankings

• The Royals have an 8.2 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 18th in the big leagues.
• Kansas City has pitched to a 3.47 ERA this season, which ranks second in baseball.
• The Royals have a combined 1.212 WHIP as a pitching staff, seventh-lowest in MLB.
• With just 95 homers allowed, the Royals rank ninth in the league at preventing long balls.
• Last time out, Kansas City defeated the Pirates, 4-3, with nine strikeouts and eight hits allowed.