Maikel Garcia Preview, Player Props: Royals vs. Blue Jays
The Kansas City Royals, including Maikel Garcia and his .500 slugging percentage in past 10 games, including five extra-base hits but no homers), take on starter Yusei Kikuchi and the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, Friday at 7:07 PM ET.
In his most recent game he had a hitless showing (0-for-1) against the White Sox.
Maikel Garcia Game Info & Props vs. the Blue Jays
- Game Day: Friday, September 8, 2023
- Game Time: 7:07 PM ET
- Stadium: Rogers Centre
- Blue Jays Starter: Yusei Kikuchi
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +900)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +230)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Maikel Garcia At The Plate
- Garcia is batting .283 with 19 doubles, four triples, four home runs and 29 walks.
- Garcia has gotten at least one hit in 70.2% of his games this season (73 of 104), with more than one hit 28 times (26.9%).
- Looking at the 104 games he has played this season, he's went deep in four of them (3.8%), and in 0.9% of his trips to the plate.
- In 39 games this year (37.5%), Garcia has picked up an RBI, and in seven of those games (6.7%) he had two or more. He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored at least once 41 times this season (39.4%), including eight games with multiple runs (7.7%).
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Blue Jays Pitching Rankings
- The Blue Jays pitching staff ranks second in the league with a collective 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Blue Jays have the second-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (3.74).
- Blue Jays pitchers combine to rank 17th in baseball in home runs given up (171 total, 1.2 per game).
- Kikuchi (9-5) is looking for his 10th victory when he gets the starting nod for the Blue Jays in his 28th start of the season. He's put together a 3.63 ERA in 143 2/3 innings pitched, with 152 strikeouts.
- In his most recent time out on Sunday, the left-hander went 4 2/3 innings against the Colorado Rockies, giving up two earned runs while surrendering six hits.
- The 32-year-old ranks 19th in ERA (3.63), 35th in WHIP (1.260), and 19th in K/9 (9.5) among qualifying pitchers in MLB play this season.
