Maikel Garcia Player Props: May 21, Royals vs. Tigers
Maikel Garcia, coming off a one-hit showing in his previous game (1-for-4), will take the field for the Kansas City Royals versus Casey Mize and the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday. First pitch is at 7:40 PM ET on BSKC.
Find odds, stats, and more below to make your Maikel Garcia player prop bets.
Garcia is hitting .249 with 12 doubles, a triple, five home runs and 14 walks. In baseball, Garcia ranks 86th in homers and 19th in RBI. Garcia enters this game on an eight-game hitting streak. During his last games he is batting .295 with five doubles, a home run, a walk and nine RBI.
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- Matchup: Kansas City Royals vs. Detroit Tigers
- Time: 7:40 PM ET
- Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- TV Channel: BSKC
- Live Stream: Fubo (Watch now!)
- Hits Prop: 1.5 hits (Over odds: +145)
- Home Runs Prop: 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +750)
- RBI Prop: 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: 0.5 runs (Over odds: -135)
- Total Bases Prop: 1.5 total bases (Over odds: -105)
- Stolen Bases Prop: 0.5 stolen bases (Over odds: +320)
Maikel Garcia prop bet insights
- In 68.1% of his 47 games this season, Garcia has notched a base hit (32 times). He’s also notched 15 multi-hit games in 2024 (31.9%).
- Out of the 47 games he has appeared in this season, he’s gone yard in five contests (10.6%), hitting a home run in 2.4% of his trips to the plate.
- Garcia has scored in 42.6% of his 47 games this year, with more than one run scored in 10.6% of those games (five).
- In 20 of 47 games this season (42.6%), he has picked up an RBI, and nine of those games (19.1%) included a performance that produced . He has also been responsible for three or more of his team’s runs in two contests.
- Garcia has been set down on strikes at least once 28 times this season in 47 tries (59.6%), including punching out on multiple occasions in 14.9% of games (seven times).
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Maikel Garcia stats against the Tigers
| Date | Opp. SP | H/AB | XBH | HR | RBI | R | K/BB | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/20/2024 | Reese Olson | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 4/28/2024 | Tarik Skubal | 1-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 4/27/2024 | Casey Mize | 2-for-5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0/0 | 1 |
| 4/26/2024 | Reese Olson | 2-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0/1 | 0 |
| 9/28/2023 | Tarik Skubal | 0-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3/0 | 0 |
| 9/26/2023 | Reese Olson | 1-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 7/20/2023 | Michael Lorenzen | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0 |
| 7/19/2023 | Eduardo Rodríguez | 0-for-3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/1 | 0 |
| 7/18/2023 | Tarik Skubal | 2-for-4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1/0 | 0 |
| 6/21/2023 | Matthew Boyd | 1-for-4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0/0 | 0 |
Tigers starter: Casey Mize
- Mize (1-2 with a 3.50 ERA and 32 strikeouts in 43 2/3 innings pitched) gets the nod for the Tigers in his ninth start of the season.
- His last outing came on Wednesday versus the Miami Marlins, when the right-hander tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up two hits.
- The 27-year-old has put up an ERA of 3.50, with 6.6 strikeouts per nine innings, in eight games this season. Opponents are batting .244 against him.
- In this matchup, Mize will look to secure his third quality start in a row.