Vinnie Pasquantino will try to collect his 100th RBI of the season (he has 99) when the Kansas City Royals (73-72) play the Cleveland Guardians (74-70) on Thursday at 7:15 p.m. ET. The Royals are underdogs (+117) versus the Guardians (-141). Cleveland has Gavin Williams starting, and Kansas City will send out Stephen Kolek.

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Guardians vs. Royals betting lines

• Favorite: Guardians (-141)
• Underdog: Royals (+117)
• Over/under: 8

Guardians betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Guardians betting info

• The Guardians have a 36-23 record in games they were listed as the moneyline favorite (winning 61% of those games).
• Cleveland has an 11-5 record (winning 68.8% of its games) when it has played as moneyline favorites of -141 or shorter.
• Based on this matchup’s moneyline, the Guardians have an implied win probability of 58.5%.
• In the 142 games in which oddsmakers have set an over/under for Cleveland, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 62 times (62-73-7).
• The Guardians have covered 51.4% of their games this season, going 73-69-0 against the spread.

Guardians hitting info

• Jose Ramirez paces the Guardians with 28 home runs and 76 runs batted in, while accumulating a team-best batting average of .287.
• Ramirez’s home runs rank 21st in MLB and he ranks 45th in RBI in MLB.
• Ramirez has safely hit in six straight games. In his last 10 outings he is hitting .308 with three doubles, a triple, two home runs, two walks and eight RBIs.
• Steven Kwan has 25 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 50 walks while hitting .275.
• Kwan currently ranks 186th in homers and 162nd in RBI in the bigs.
• Kyle Manzardo has 15 doubles, two triples, 25 home runs and 45 walks while batting .239.
• Manzardo heads into this game on a two-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is batting .375 with a double, a home run, four walks and four RBIs.
• Angel Martinez is batting .227 with 21 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 17 walks.

Guardians pitching rankings

• The Guardians pitching staff is 16th in MLB with a collective 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Cleveland has a 3.88 team ERA that ranks 11th across all MLB pitching staffs.
• The Guardians have the 18th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.306).
• The Guardians give up the 10th-fewest home runs in baseball (155 total, 1.1 per game).
• Cleveland struck out seven Royals batters while allowing five hits in a 2-0 win in its last game.

Royals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Royals betting info

• This season, the Royals have been the underdog 81 times and won 37, or 45.7%, of those games.
• Kansas City has a record of 18-20, a 47.4% win rate, when it’s set as an underdog of +117 or more by oddsmakers this season.
• The Royals have a 46.1% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
• So far this season, Kansas City and its opponents have hit the over in 61 of its 145 games with a total.
• The Royals are 72-73-0 against the spread this season.

Royals hitting info

• Bobby Witt Jr. leads Kansas City with a batting average of .293. He’s also hit 21 home runs with 77 RBI.
• In all of MLB, Witt ranks 60th in home runs and 41st in RBI.
• Maikel Garcia is batting .290 with an OBP of .354 and a slugging percentage of .465 this season.
• Among all MLB hitters, Garcia ranks 109th in home runs and 72nd in RBI.
• Pasquantino leads Kansas City in home runs (29) and runs batted in (99) this season while batting .260.
• Salvador Perez has collected 125 hits this season and has an OBP of .278. He’s slugging .438 on the year.

Royals pitching rankings

• The Royals strike out eight batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 22nd in MLB.
• Kansas City has pitched to a 3.68 ERA this season, which ranks fourth in baseball.
• The Royals have a combined WHIP of 1.250 as a pitching staff, which ranks 11th in MLB.
• With just 146 homers allowed, the Royals rank fourth in the league at preventing long balls.
• Last time out, Kansas City fell to the Guardians 2-0. Its pitchers compiled nine strikeouts and seven hits allowed.