Martin Maldonado and the Houston Astros face off against starter Pablo Lopez and the Minnesota Twins at 8:03 PM ET on Sunday, October 8 at Minute Maid Park.
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Player Prop Odds for Maldonado
| Prop | O/U | Over Odds |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 0.5 | -127 |
| Runs | 0.5 | -104 |
| RBI | 0.5 | -103 |
| Strikeouts | 1.5 | +102 |
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Stats and Trends for the Minnesota Twins
- The Twins’ Lopez (11-8) will make his 33rd start of the season.
- The right-hander’s last start was on Tuesday, when he tossed 5 2/3 innings while giving up one earned run on five hits in a matchup with the Toronto Blue Jays.
- Among qualified pitchers this season, the 27-year-old’s 3.71 ERA ranks 23rd, 1.155 WHIP ranks 16th, and 10.9 K/9 ranks fifth.
- The Twins strike out 9.7 batters per nine innings as a pitching staff, first-best in MLB.
- The Twins have pitched to a 3.87 this season, which ranks fifth in baseball.
- The Twins have a combined 1.198 WHIP as a pitching staff, fourth-lowest in MLB.
- With 194 homers allowed, the Twins rank 15th in the league at preventing long balls.
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Martín Maldonado Stats vs. the Twins
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/7/2023 | Bailey Ober | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 5/31/2023 | Louie Varland | 0-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 5/29/2023 | Sonny Gray | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 4/8/2023 | Joe Ryan | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 4/7/2023 | Sonny Gray | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/24/2022 | Dylan Bundy | 1-for-3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/23/2022 | Aarón Sánchez | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/0 | 0 |
| 5/11/2022 | Chris Archer | 1-for-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 5/10/2022 | Joe Ryan | 0-for-5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 8/8/2021 | Kenta Maeda | 1-for-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0/1 | 0 |
Maldonado Stats and Trends
- Maldonado has recorded a hit in 52 of 118 games this season, with multiple hits in 15 of them.
- Out of the 118 games he has had a plate appearance in this season, he’s hit a home run in 14 contests (11.9%), leaving the ballpark in 3.8% of his plate appearances.
- He has touched home plate at least one time in 25.4% of his contests this year (30 of 118), with more than one run scored in three of those games (2.5%).
- In 23.7% of his 118 games this season, Maldonado has notched an RBI (28 times). Also, he’s put up six games with multiple RBI in 2023 (5.1%) and produced three or more of his team’s runs in one contest.
- He has gone down on strikes at least once in 91 out of 118 games this season (77.1%), while fanning multiple times in 40 of them (33.9%).
| Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|
| 61 | GP | 57 |
| 29 (47.5%) | Games w/1+ Hit | 23 (40.4%) |
| 8 (13.1%) | Games w/2+ Hits | 7 (12.3%) |
| 13 (21.3%) | Games w/1+ Run | 17 (29.8%) |
| 7 (11.5%) | Games w/1+ HR | 7 (12.3%) |
| 14 (23.0%) | Games w/1+ RBI | 14 (24.6%) |
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