Buddy Kennedy and the Arizona Diamondbacks take on starter Rich Hill and the San Diego Padres at 9:40 PM ET on Thursday, August 17 at PETCO Park.
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Player Prop Odds for Kennedy
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -149 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -117 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -105 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -145 |
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Stats and Trends for the San Diego Padres
- Hill (7-12) will take to the mound for the Padres and make his 25th start of the season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Sunday, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed seven hits in 3 1/3 innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
- Among qualified major league pitchers this season, the 43-year-old’s 5.24 ERA ranks 59th, 1.508 WHIP ranks 62nd, and 8 K/9 ranks 44th.
- The Padres had a 9.1 K/9 last season as a pitching staff, fifth-best in baseball.
- Padres pitchers had a combined ERA of 3.82 last year, which ranked 11th in MLB.
- The Padres had a combined WHIP of just 1.201 as a pitching staff, which was the ninth-best in baseball last season.
- The Padres ranked 17th in long balls allowed last season with 173 home runs against them.
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Buddy Kennedy Stats vs. the Padres
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/12/2023 | Rich Hill | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 7/16/2022 | Sean Manaea | 2-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 7/15/2022 | Yu Darvish | 0-for-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 6/29/2022 | Mike Clevinger | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 6/28/2022 | Sean Manaea | 1-for-3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 6/21/2022 | Sean Manaea | 0-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 6/20/2022 | Yu Darvish | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
Kennedy Stats and Trends
- In 48.3% of his 29 games last season, Kennedy had a hit. He also had four multi-hit games in 2022.
- Logging a trip to the plate in 29 games last season, he hit just one home run.
- He touched home plate 10 times last season in 29 games (34.5%), but did not have a multi-run game.
- Kennedy picked up an RBI in six of 29 games last season, with multiple RBIs in three of them. He drove in three or more runs in two games.
- In 69.0% of his games last season (20 of 29), he went down on strikes one or more times, and in three of those games (10.3%) he went down on strikes multiple times.
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | GP | 14 |
| 11 (73.3%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 3 (21.4%) |
| 3 (20.0%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 1 (7.1%) |
| 8 (53.3%) | Games w/1+ Run | 2 (14.3%) |
| 1 (6.7%) | Games w/1+ HR | 0 (0.0%) |
| 5 (33.3%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 1 (7.1%) |
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