Wrigley Field is where Drew Waters and the Kansas City Royals will take on starter Justin Steele and the Chicago Cubs on Saturday, August 19 at 2:20 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Waters
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -144 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -111 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -115 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | -106 |
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Stats and Trends for the Chicago Cubs
- The Cubs will hand the ball to Steele (13-3) for his 23rd start of the season.
- The left-hander’s last start was on Saturday, when he tossed five innings while giving up three earned runs on six hits in a matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays.
- Among qualified pitchers this season, the 28-year-old’s 3.21 ERA ranks eighth, 1.190 WHIP ranks 26th, and 8.6 K/9 ranks 32nd.
- The Cubs strike out 8.4 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, 22nd in MLB.
- Cubs pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.29 this year, which ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Cubs rank 16th in MLB with a combined 1.283 WHIP this season.
- The Cubs have given up the eighth-fewest long balls so far this season with only 136 home runs allowed.
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Drew Waters Stats vs. the Cubs
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/18/2023 | Jameson Taillon | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/0 | 1 |
Waters Stats and Trends
- In 36 of 61 games this season (59.0%), Waters has gotten a hit, and he collected two or more knocks in 12 of those contests (19.7%).
- He has hit a long ball in 11.5% of his games this season (61 contests), going yard in 3.1% of his trips to the plate.
- In 34.4% of his 61 games this season, he has scored (21 times). Also, he’s put up seven games with multiple runs in 2023 (11.5%).
- Waters has driven in at least one run 16 times this season in 61 tries (26.2%), including plating more than one run in 8.2% of games (five times) and producing three or more of his team’s runs on two occasions.
- He has gone down on strikes one or more times in 75.4% of his games this season (46 of 61), striking out multiple times in 25 of those contests (41.0%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | GP | 29 |
| 22 (68.8%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 14 (48.3%) |
| 7 (21.9%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 5 (17.2%) |
| 16 (50.0%) | Games w/1+ Run | 5 (17.2%) |
| 4 (12.5%) | Games w/1+ HR | 3 (10.3%) |
| 10 (31.3%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 6 (20.7%) |
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