The Kansas City Royals (61-61) host the Chicago White Sox (44-78) on Saturday at 7:10 p.m. ET. The Royals are moneyline favorites (-181) against the underdog White Sox (+151). Michael Lorenzen starts for Kansas City, and Sean Burke is Chicago’s choice to start.

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Royals vs. White Sox betting lines

• Favorite: Royals (-181)
• Underdog: White Sox (+151)
• Over/under: 9

Royals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Royals betting info

• The Royals have gone 28-21 in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 57.1% of those games).
• Kansas City has won all 10 games it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -181 or shorter.
• The implied moneyline probablility for this matchup gives the Royals a 64.4% chance to win.
• Kansas City has had an over/under set by bookmakers 122 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 53 of those games (53-68-1).
• The Royals have covered 52.5% of their games this season, going 64-58-0 against the spread.

Royals hitting info

• Bobby Witt Jr. is hitting .290 with 38 doubles, four triples, 17 home runs and 40 walks.
• Witt ranks 67th in home runs and 38th in RBI among all hitters in baseball.
• Witt has safely hit in four games in a row. During his last five outings he is hitting .389 with a double, two walks and two RBIs.
• Maikel Garcia has a club-high .301 batting average.
• Garcia ranks 142nd in homers and 95th in RBI this year.
• Garcia heads into this game on a two-game hitting streak. In his last five games he is hitting .353 with a double, six walks and an RBI.
• Vinnie Pasquantino paces the Royals with 22 home runs and 80 runs batted in.
• Pasquantino enters this game on a three-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is hitting .286 with two doubles, three home runs, a walk and 11 RBIs.
• Salvador Perez’s 22 home runs lead his team.

Royals pitching rankings

• The pitching staff for the Royals has a collective eight K/9, which ranks 23rd in the majors.
• Kansas City has a 3.65 team ERA that ranks fourth across all MLB pitching staffs.
• The Royals average baseball’s 11th-ranked WHIP (1.241).
• Royals pitchers combine to give up 124 home runs (one per game), the eighth-fewest in baseball.
• In its 3-1 win last time out, Kansas City struck out seven White Sox batters while allowing seven hits.

White Sox betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

White Sox betting info

• This season, the White Sox have been the underdog 120 times and won 43, or 35.8%, of those games.
• Chicago has a record of 16-41, a 28.1% win rate, when it’s set as an underdog of +151 or more by oddsmakers this season.
• The implied probability of a win by the White Sox, based on the moneyline, is 39.8%.
• Chicago and its opponents have gone over the total this season in 53 of its 122 opportunities.
• The White Sox are 70-52-0 ATS in their 122 games with a spread this season.

White Sox hitting info

• Miguel Vargas is batting .228 with 13 home runs and 44 RBI for Chicago this season.
• In all of Major League Baseball, Vargas is 114th in home runs and 141st in RBI.
• Andrew Benintendi has 73 hits and an OBP of .293 to go with a slugging percentage of .407 this season.
• Benintendi ranks 101st among batters in the big leagues in homers, and 133rd in RBI.
• Lenyn Sosa is batting .273 with 15 home runs and 49 RBI, all three of which rank first for Chicago this season.
• Luis Robert has 76 hits and an OBP of .298 to go with a slugging percentage of .353 this season.

White Sox pitching rankings

• The White Sox average the 25th-most strikeouts per nine innings (7.9) in the majors this season.
• Chicago has pitched to a 4.13 ERA this season, which ranks 18th in baseball.
• White Sox pitchers have a 1.363 WHIP this season, 25th in the majors.
• The White Sox have allowed the 10th-fewest home runs this season at just 131, or 1.1 per game.
• Chicago suffered a 3-1 defeat in its most recent game, as its pitchers struck out six Royals batters while allowing eight hits.