The New York Mets (55-41) will look to Juan Soto, who is on a two-game home run streak, when they face the Kansas City Royals (46-50). The Mets are favored on the moneyline (-138) in this outing against the Royals (+116), which begins at 2:10 p.m. ET on Sunday at Kauffman Stadium. New York’s Clay Holmes starts against Kansas City’s Noah Cameron.

Check out all the Latest Baseball Betting Previews!

Mets vs. Royals betting lines

• Favorite: Mets (-138)
• Underdog: Royals (+116)
• Over/under: 9

Mets betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Mets betting info

• The Mets have won 64.7% of the games this season when they were the moneyline favorite (44-24).
• When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -138 or shorter, New York has a 30-17 record (winning 63.8% of its games).
• The implied moneyline probablility in this matchup gives the Mets a 58% chance to win.
• New York has had an over/under set by bookmakers 96 times, and have combined with opponents to go over the total in 43 of those games (43-51-2).
• The Mets have covered 49% of their games this season, going 47-49-0 against the spread.

Mets hitting info

• Soto has a team-high 23 homers.
• Soto’s home runs rank ninth in MLB and he ranks 25th in RBI in MLB.
• Soto heads into this game on a two-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is batting .294 with two home runs, five walks and five RBIs.
• Pete Alonso has a club-leading 77 RBI and .281 batting average.
• Among all MLB hitters, Alonso ranks 12th in home runs and third in RBI.
• Francisco Lindor is batting .263 with 18 doubles, 19 home runs and 33 walks.
• Lindor takes a seven-game hitting streak into this matchup. In his last 10 games he is hitting .333 with three doubles, three home runs, four walks and 11 RBIs.
• Brandon Nimmo is batting .259 with 17 doubles, 18 home runs and 29 walks.

Mets pitching rankings

• The pitching staff for the Mets has a collective 8.7 K/9, the eighth-best in MLB.
• New York’s 3.57 team ERA ranks fourth across all MLB pitching staffs.
• Pitchers for the Mets combine for the 19th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.299).
• Mets pitchers combine to surrender 83 home runs (0.9 per game), the first-fewest in the majors.
• New York struck out six Royals batters while allowing four hits in a 3-1 win in its last game.

Royals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Royals betting info

• The Royals have been underdogs in 61 games this season and won 28 (45.9%) of those contests.
• Kansas City is 12-13 this season when entering a game as the underdog by +116 or more on the moneyline.
• Bookmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Royals have a 46.3% chance to win.
• Kansas City’s games have gone over the total in 37 of its 96 chances.
• The Royals are 49-47-0 against the spread in their 96 chances this season.

Royals hitting info

• Bobby Witt Jr. is batting .294 with 14 home runs and 54 RBI for Kansas City this season.
• Among all hitters in the big leagues, Witt is 56th in homers and 33rd in RBI.
• Maikel Garcia is batting .298 to lead Kansas City, while adding eight homers and 40 runs batted in this season.
• Among all major league batters, Garcia is 151st in home runs and 95th in RBI.
• Vinnie Pasquantino leads the club in homers (15) and runs batted in (56) this season.
• Pasquantino has hit safely in six straight games. In his last 10 games he is batting .325 with four doubles, three home runs, a walk and nine RBIs.
• Salvador Perez is batting .246 with an OBP of .287 and a slugging percentage of .424 this season.

Royals pitching rankings

• The Royals strike out 8.3 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 18th in MLB.
• Kansas City has the second-best ERA (3.51) in the majors this season.
• The Royals have a combined WHIP of just 1.213 as a pitching staff, which is the fifth-best in baseball this season.
• With just 98 homers allowed, the Royals rank 10th in the league at preventing long balls.
• Last time out, Kansas City fell to the Mets 3-1. Its pitchers compiled 11 strikeouts and six hits allowed.