Taylor Walls’ Tampa Bay Rays and the Toronto Blue Jays, who will be sending Yusei Kikuchi to the mound, face off at Rogers Centre on Friday, September 29. The first pitch will be thrown at 7:07 PM ET.
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Player Prop Odds for Walls
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -129 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -110 |
| RBI | 0.5 | +100 |
| Strikeouts | 0.5 | -149 |
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Stats and Trends for the Toronto Blue Jays
- Kikuchi (10-6) will take the mound for the Blue Jays, his 32nd start of the season.
- The left-hander last pitched on Sunday, when he gave up three earned runs and allowed nine hits in four innings against the Tampa Bay Rays.
- The 32-year-old’s 3.82 ERA ranks 27th, 1.266 WHIP ranks 32nd, and 9.8 K/9 ranks 13th among qualified pitchers in the majors this year.
- The Blue Jays strike out 9.5 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, second-best in MLB.
- Blue Jays pitchers have a combined ERA of 3.77 this year, second-best in baseball.
- The Blue Jays have a combined WHIP of just 1.243 as a pitching staff, which is the seventh-best in baseball this season.
- The Blue Jays have given up 193 home runs so far this season (the 17th-ranked total in MLB play).
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Taylor Walls Stats vs. the Blue Jays
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9/24/2023 | Yusei Kikuchi | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 9/23/2023 | Hyun-Jin Ryu | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 5/25/2023 | Alek Manoah | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2/1 | 2 |
| 5/24/2023 | Yusei Kikuchi | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 5/23/2023 | José Berríos | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 4/16/2023 | Alek Manoah | 1-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1/1 | 1 |
| 4/15/2023 | Yusei Kikuchi | 1-for-3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 9/25/2022 | Ross Stripling | 1-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 9/22/2022 | José Berríos | 0-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/2 | 0 |
| 9/15/2022 | Kevin Gausman | 0-for-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0/1 | 1 |
Walls Stats and Trends
- Walls has collected a hit in 46 of 92 games this season (50.0%), with multiple hits in nine of those contests (9.8%).
- He has hit a long ball in 7.6% of his games in 2023 (seven of 92), which amounts to 2.3% of his trips to the plate.
- In 40.2% of his 92 games this season, he has scored a run (37 times). Also, he’s put up 10 games with multiple runs in 2023 (10.9%).
- Walls has tallied an RBI in 26.1% of his 92 games this season, with two or more RBI in 5.4% of those contests (five). He has also knocked in three or more runs in three contests.
- He has gone down on strikes one or more times 59 times this season in 92 games (64.1%), including 28 games with more than one strikeout (30.4%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 46 | GP | 46 |
| 22 (47.8%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 24 (52.2%) |
| 3 (6.5%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 6 (13.0%) |
| 17 (37.0%) | Games w/1+ Run | 20 (43.5%) |
| 1 (2.2%) | Games w/1+ HR | 6 (13.0%) |
| 9 (19.6%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 15 (32.6%) |
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