The upcoming game between Yordan Alvarez’s Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox (with Kutter Crawford getting the start) is scheduled for Wednesday, August 30 at 4:10 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Alvarez
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -146 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -123 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -135 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -145 |
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Stats and Trends for the Boston Red Sox
- Crawford (6-6) will take to the mound for the Red Sox and make his 18th start of the season.
- The right-hander’s last appearance was on Friday, when he threw five innings against the Los Angeles Dodgers, giving up two earned runs while allowing four hits.
- The 27-year-old has an ERA of 3.65, a 4.04 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.089 in 25 games this season.
- The Red Sox average the 15th-most strikeouts per nine innings (8.8) in the league this season.
- Red Sox pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.46 this year, which ranks 18th in MLB.
- The Red Sox have a combined WHIP of 1.341 as a pitching staff, which ranks 20th in MLB.
- The Red Sox have allowed 176 home runs this season, or 1.3 per game. That ranks 25th in MLB.
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Yordan Alvarez Stats vs. the Red Sox
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/29/2023 | Brayan Bello | 3-for-5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/28/2023 | Chris Sale | 4-for-4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0/2 | 0 |
| 8/24/2023 | Brayan Bello | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 8/21/2023 | James Paxton | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/3/2022 | Rich Hill | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 8/2/2022 | Kutter Crawford | 1-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 8/1/2022 | Nathan Eovaldi | 0-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 5/18/2022 | Nick Pivetta | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 5/17/2022 | Nathan Eovaldi | 2-for-4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 5/16/2022 | Garrett Whitlock | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/1 | 0 |
Alvarez Stats and Trends
- Alvarez has a hit in 73.3% of his games this season (63 of 86), and he posted multiple base hits in 21 of those games (24.4%).
- Out of the 86 games he has gone to the plate in this season, he’s gone yard in 21 contests (24.4%), hitting a home run in 6.2% of his plate appearances.
- He has touched home plate at least one time 49 times this year in 86 games played (57.0%), including 10 times when he tallied multiple runs (11.6%).
- In 46.5% of his contests this year (40 of 86), Alvarez has driven in at least one run. In 23 of those games (26.7%) he recorded more than one RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team’s runs in nine games.
- He has gone down on strikes in 61.6% of his 86 games this season, while fanning more than once in 17.4% of them (15).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 44 | GP | 42 |
| 33 (75.0%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 30 (71.4%) |
| 8 (18.2%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 13 (31.0%) |
| 23 (52.3%) | Games w/1+ Run | 26 (61.9%) |
| 7 (15.9%) | Games w/1+ HR | 14 (33.3%) |
| 18 (40.9%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 22 (52.4%) |
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