Twins Vs Tigers: MLB Betting Odds, Trends & Stats – August 3, 2022

The Minnesota Twins (54-49) and Detroit Tigers (42-63) meet at Target Field on Wednesday at 1:10 PM ET to break a 1-1 series tie. Joe Ryan starts for Minnesota (-222 to win), and Tyler Alexander is Detroit’s (+185) pick to start.

The insights in this article reference odds valid as of August 3, 2022 at 11:35 AM ET.

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Twins vs Tigers Betting Odds

Pitching Matchup

Twins Probable Starter Joe Ryan

• Ryan makes the start for the Twins, his 17th of the season. He is 7-4 with a 3.78 ERA and 80 strikeouts in 85 2/3 innings pitched.
• In his last outing on Saturday against the San Diego Padres, the righty threw 4 2/3 innings, allowing 10 earned runs while surrendering eight hits.
• The 26-year-old has a 3.78 ERA and 8.4 strikeouts per nine innings in 16 games this season, while allowing a batting average of .218 to opposing hitters.
• Ryan is looking to pick up his seventh quality start of the season.
• He will face a Tigers offense that ranks last in the league with 339 runs while batting .227 as a squad. It has a collective .335 slugging percentage (30th in MLB action) and has hit a total of 63 home runs (30th in MLB).

Starting pitcher projections reflect team information as of August 3, 2022 at 11:35 AM ET and may change up to the start of game.

Tigers Stats vs Ryan

Tigers Probable Starter Tyler Alexander

• The Tigers will send Alexander (1-4) to the mound for his sixth start this season.
• The left-hander’s last appearance was on Thursday, when he threw 4 2/3 innings against the Toronto Blue Jays, giving up two earned runs while allowing five hits.
• The 28-year-old has pitched in 15 games this season with an ERA of 4.10 and 4.6 strikeouts per nine innings, with an opponent batting average of .272.
• Alexander has not earned a quality start in five starts this season.
• The Twins are batting .251 this season, ninth in MLB. They have a team slugging percentage of .419 (sixth in the league) with 129 home runs.

Starting pitcher projections reflect team information as of August 3, 2022 at 11:35 AM ET and may change up to the start of game.

Twins Stats vs Alexander

Twins Betting Trends

• The Twins have won 38 of the 62 games they were favored on the moneyline this season (61.3%).
• Minnesota has won all four games it has played as a moneyline favorite with odds of -222 or shorter.
• Based on this contest’s moneyline, the Twins have an implied win probability of 68.9%.
• In the 103 games oddsmakers have set an over/under for Minnesota, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 50 times (50-47-6).
• The Twins have covered 42.7% of their games this season, going 44-59-0 ATS.

Tigers Betting Trends

• This season, the Tigers have been the underdog 85 times and won 33, or 38.8%, of those games.
• Detroit has a record of 4-14 in games where bookmakers have them as underogs of at least +185 on the moneyline.
• Sportsbooks have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the Tigers have a 35.1% chance to win.
• Detroit’s games have gone over the total in 40 of their 105 chances.
• The Tigers are 49-56-0 ATS in their 105 games with a spread this season.

Twins Players to Watch

• Luis Arraez has put up a team-best OBP (.398) and slugging percentage (.434), while batting .329 with 16 doubles, a triple, six home runs and 38 walks.
• Among qualifying batters in MLB action, Arraez’s batting average ranks second, his on-base percentage ranks fifth, and he is 65th in the league in slugging.
• Arraez enters this game on a five-game hitting streak. During his last five outings he is batting .273 with a home run and an RBI.
• Jorge Polanco is hitting .239 with 13 doubles, 14 home runs and 54 walks.
• Polanco ranks 112th in batting average, 43rd in on base percentage, and 80th in slugging in MLB action.
• Polanco takes a two-game hitting streak into this game. In his last five games he is hitting .176 with a double and four walks.
• Byron Buxton is hitting .220 with 12 doubles, three triples, 26 home runs and 26 walks. He paces the Twins with 64 hits.
• Gio Urshela has 17 doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 22 walks while batting .264.

Twins Batting Stats (2022)

Tigers Players to Watch

• Javier Baez leads Detroit with 78 hits, batting .227 this season with 33 extra-base hits.
• Among all the qualified hitters in the big leagues, Baez is 127th in batting average, 144th in on-base percentage, and 113th in slugging percentage.
• Jonathan Schoop has collected 78 hits this season to earn an on-base percentage of .246.
• Schoop is 145th in batting average, 152nd in on-base percentage and 147th in slugging percentage in MLB.
• Jeimer Candelario is batting .206 with a .362 slugging percentage and 32 RBI this year.
• Miguel Cabrera has a slash line of .271/.321/.336 this season and a team-best OPS of .657.

Tigers Batting Stats (2022)

Twins vs Tigers Player Props

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