It’s incredibly rare to see the top two Cy Young candidates matchup this late in the regular season, which means baseball fans are in for a treat on Tuesday night.
When the Houston Astros face the Chicago White Sox, they’ll send Justin Verlander (-150 to win Cy Young at Tipico) to the mound against Dylan Cease (+190) and there’s really no understating what both of them have done this year.
White Sox (+1.5) vs. Astros (-130)
Over/Under 6.5
Named AL pitcher of the month for June and July, Cease has an MLB record streak of 14 starts with no more than one earned run allowed—surpassing Jacob deGrom’s absurd mark of 13 in 2021. Over that stretch the Sox star has a 0.66 ERA which stands as the lowest for any pitcher during a 14-game span in the last 100 years.
Dylan Cease has 55 walks and has allowed 28 earned runs.
The last three MLB pitchers to start 20+ games in a season and have at least twice as many walks as earned runs?
Nolan Ryan, Nolan Ryan, and Nolan Ryan
— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) August 12, 2022
Here’s a quick glance at how the stats for Cease and Verlander stack up in the AL:
| Category |
Dylan Cease AL Rank |
Justin Verlander AL Rank |
|
WAR |
1 (4.4) |
2 (4.4) |
|
ERA |
2 (1.96) |
1 (1.85) |
|
Strikeouts |
2 (174) |
9 (134) |
|
Home Runs Per 9 IP |
5 (0.699) |
8 (0.794) |
|
Win Probability Added |
5 (3.0) |
1 (3.5) |
|
Hits Per 9 IP |
4 (6.435) |
2 (6.154) |
Justin Verlander's earned runs per start in 2022:
1, 0, 3, 1, 2, 0, 0, 0, 6, 3, 1, 0, 4, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 3Dylan Cease's earned runs per start in 2022:
1, 1, 4, 2, 0, 1, 6, 0, 7, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1 pic.twitter.com/G1rj80wOGx— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) August 16, 2022
So, yeah, these guys are for real.
The White Sox have won four straight. The Astros have won four of their last five after dropping the series opener in Chicago on Monday.
Let’s figure out how to bet on them.
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