Padres vs. White Sox odds, tips and betting trends

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01 October 2023

Padres vs. White Sox odds, tips and betting trends

The San Diego Padres (81-80) will attempt to build on a four-game winning streak on Sunday against the Chicago White Sox (61-100), with first pitch at 3:10 PM ET at Guaranteed Rate Field.

The White Sox are an underdog (+154 moneyline odds to win) when they host the Padres (-183). The San Diego Padres will give the start to Pedro Avila (2-2, 3.57 ERA), who is looking for win No. 3 on the season, and the White Sox will turn to Jose Urena (0-7, 7.45 ERA).

These teams meet again after the Padres defeated the White Sox 6-1 yesterday. Michael Wacha earned the win for the Padres (7.0 IP, 0 R, 3 H, 7 K), and Ha-Seong Kim led the way offensively (4-for-5 with a double). Mike Clevinger (1.2 IP, 6 R, 7 H, 2 K) took the loss for the White Sox.

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San Diego Padres vs. Chicago White Sox odds and betting lines

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Favorite: Padres (-183, bet $183 to win $100)
Underdog: White Sox (+154, bet $100 to win $154)
Over/under: 9

This season, the Padres have won 67 out of the 120 games, or 55.8%, in which they’ve been favored.
This season San Diego has won 22 of its 37 games, or 59.5%, when favored by at least -183 on the moneyline.
The bookmakers’ moneyline implies a 64.7% chance of a victory for the Padres.
Games involving San Diego has gone over the total set by oddsmakers in 67 of 161 chances this season.
The Padres have an ATS record of 81-80-0 in 161 games with a spread this season.

The Padres are sending Avila (2-2) out to make his sixth start of the season. He is 2-2 with a 3.57 ERA and 47 strikeouts in 45 1/3 innings pitched.
In his last appearance — out of the bullpen on Sunday, Sept. 24 — the right-hander tossed 2 2/3 innings against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving up two earned runs while surrendering two hits.
The 26-year-old has a 3.57 ERA and 9.3 strikeouts per nine innings across 13 games this season, while giving up a batting average of .238 to opposing hitters.
Avila has one quality start under his belt this season.
Avila is looking to pick up his second start of five or more innings this year in this outing.
He has had six appearances this season in which he held his opponents to zero earned runs.
He will match up with a White Sox team that is batting .238 as a unit (26th in MLB). It is also slugging a collective .385 (26th in MLB) with 171 total home runs (20th in MLB).

The Padres have hit 205 homers this season, which ranks 13th in the league.
The offense for San Diego has a slugging percentage of .415 this season, 14th in MLB.
The Padres have a team batting average of .244 this season, which ranks 19th among MLB teams.
San Diego has scored the 13th-most runs in the majors this season with 750 (4.7 per game).
The Padres have an OBP of .329 this season, which ranks seventh in MLB.
San Diego has shown patience at the plate this season with the eighth-best rate of strikeouts per game (8.1) among MLB offenses.

The White Sox have come away with 37 wins in the 114 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
Chicago has a win-loss record of 6-18 when favored by +154 or worse by sportsbooks this year.
Oddsmakers have implied with the moneyline set for this matchup that the White Sox have a 39.4% chance of pulling out a win.
Chicago and its opponents have gone over the total this season in 70 of its 159 opportunities.
The White Sox have an against the spread record of 78-81-0 in 159 games with a line this season.

Urena (0-7) takes the mound first for the White Sox in his 10th start of the season. He’s put together a 7.45 ERA in 38 2/3 innings pitched, with 26 strikeouts.
In his most recent time out on Tuesday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the righty tossed four innings, giving up four earned runs while surrendering four hits.
In nine games this season, the 32-year-old has an ERA of 7.45, with 6.1 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are batting .295 against him.
Urena is trying to collect his second quality start of the season in this outing.
Urena will try to record his fourth outing of five or more innings pitched this season. He’s averaging 4.2 innings per appearance.
He has not had an outing yet in 2023 where he did not give up at least one earned run.
The opposing Padres offense has the 14th-ranked slugging percentage (.415) and ranks 13th in home runs hit (205) in all of MLB. They have a collective .244 batting average, and are 22nd in the league with 1309 total hits and 13th in MLB play scoring 750 runs.
Urena has pitched 2 1/3 innings, giving up four earned runs on five hits against the Padres this season.

The White Sox rank 20th in MLB action with 171 home runs. They average 1.1 per game.
So far this year, Chicago is slugging .385, the fifth-lowest percentage in the majors.
The White Sox have the fifth-worst batting average in the league (.238).
The offense for Chicago is No. 29 in MLB action scoring four runs per game (640 total runs).
The White Sox are last in the majors with a .292 on-base percentage.