At 7:05 PM ET on Friday, August 4, MJ Melendez and the Kansas City Royals will take the field against the Philadelphia Phillies and starting pitcher Aaron Nola at Citizens Bank Park, airing on MLBN.
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Player Prop Odds for Melendez
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -143 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -117 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -117 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +101 |
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Stats and Trends for the Philadelphia Phillies
- The Phillies will hand the ball to Nola (9-7) for his 23rd start of the season.
- The right-hander last pitched on Saturday, when he gave up five earned runs and allowed nine hits in 4 2/3 innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
- Among qualified major league pitchers this season, the 30-year-old’s 4.43 ERA ranks 50th, 1.123 WHIP ranks 19th, and 9.1 K/9 ranks 27th.
- The Phillies strike out 9.1 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 11th in MLB.
- The Phillies have pitched to a 3.95 this season, which ranks 11th in baseball.
- Phillies pitchers have a 1.241 WHIP this season, seventh-best in the majors.
- The Phillies have given up the 10th-fewest long balls so far this season with only 120 home runs allowed.
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Melendez Stats and Trends
- Melendez has picked up a hit in 63 of 102 games this season, with multiple hits in 15 of them.
- He has homered in 7.8% of his games this season (102 contests), going yard in 1.9% of his trips to the dish.
- He has scored at least one run 34 times this year in 102 contests (33.3%), including scoring multiple runs in 7.8% of games (eight times).
- Melendez has tallied an RBI in 23 of 102 games this year, including multiple RBI in 10 of them. He has also produced three or more of his team’s runs in two contests.
- In 76.5% of his contests this season (78 of 102), he has gone down on strikes one or more times. In 35 of those games (34.3%), he registered more than one punchout.
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 55 | GP | 47 |
| 35 (63.6%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 28 (59.6%) |
| 6 (10.9%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 9 (19.1%) |
| 19 (34.5%) | Games w/1+ Run | 15 (31.9%) |
| 6 (10.9%) | Games w/1+ HR | 2 (4.3%) |
| 13 (23.6%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 10 (21.3%) |
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