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The Cleveland Guardians (23-13) host the Detroit Tigers (19-17) at 1:10 PM ET Wednesday for a sluggers’ duel between two of the best home-run hitters in baseball. Josh Naylor has racked up nine homers this season (No. 6 in the league) for the favored Guardians which sit as -133 favorites, while Riley Greene ranks sixth in the majors with nine dingers of his own for the underdogs.
Cleveland’s Tanner Bibee gets the start, and he’ll go against Detroit’s Reese Olson.
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Guardians and Tigers Betting Trends
The Guardians have been favored on the moneyline 21 total times this season. They’ve finished 14-7 in those games.
Cleveland has gone 9-4 when playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -133 or shorter (69.2% winning percentage).
This season, the Tigers have been the underdog 20 times and won 10, or 50%, of those games.
This season, Detroit has won five of its eight games when it’s the underdog by at least +112 on the moneyline.
The Guardians have combined with opponents to go over the total 19 times this season for a 19-15-2 record against the over/under.
So far this season, the Tigers and their opponents have hit the over in 16 of their 36 games with a total.
Guardians Stats & Insights
The Guardians are the seventh-highest scoring team in the majors, averaging 4.9 runs per game (177 total).
Cleveland is 14th in MLB action with 37 home runs. They average one per game.
The Guardians are 14th in MLB with a .242 batting average.
Cleveland strikes out 7.6 times per game to rank sixth in the majors.
The pitching staff for the Guardians has a collective 9.3 K/9, the third-best in MLB.
Cleveland’s 3.53 team ERA ranks ninth among all MLB pitching staffs.
Tigers Stats & Insights
The Tigers have scored the 20th-most runs in the league this season with 145 (four per game).
Detroit ranks 21st in Major League Baseball with 32 home runs.
The Tigers’ .228 batting average ranks 22nd in the league this season.
Detroit ranks 24th with an average of 9.1 strikeouts per game.
The Tigers average 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings as a pitching staff, seventh-most in the majors.
Detroit has pitched to a 3.33 ERA this season, which ranks seventh in baseball.
Guardians Key Players to Watch
Bibee makes the start for the Guardians, his eighth of the season. He is 2-1 with a 4.46 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 36 1/3 innings pitched.
Jose Ramirez is batting .245 for Cleveland with a team-high 30 RBI.
Naylor’s nine home runs are most among Cleveland batters. He’s driven in 28 runs this season while slugging .553.
Andres Gimenez is slashing .263/.333/.353 this season for the Guardians.
Will Brennan has 24 hits and an OBP of .288 to go with a slugging percentage of .423 this season.
Tigers Key Players to Watch
The Tigers will send Olson (0-4) to the mound for his seventh start this season.
Greene paces the Tigers in home runs (nine), runs batted in (17) and has racked up a team-best batting average of .264.
Mark Canha is hitting .248 with eight doubles, five home runs and 17 walks.
Matthew Vierling is batting .282 with three doubles, two triples, three home runs and three walks.
Kerry Carpenter has six doubles, two triples, three home runs and seven walks while hitting .260.
Guardians and Tigers Injuries
Guardians: Steven Kwan: 10 Day IL (Hamstring), Eli Morgan: 15 Day IL (Shoulder), Gavin Williams: 15 Day IL (Elbow), James Karinchak: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Angel Martinez: 60 Day IL (Foot), Shane Bieber: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Trevor Stephan: 60 Day IL (Elbow)
Tigers: Gio Urshela: 10 Day IL (Hamstring), Sawyer Gipson-Long: 60 Day IL (Groin)
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