The San Francisco Giants host the Cincinnati Reds on August 24, 2026. First pitch from Oracle Park is scheduled for 9:45 p.m. EDT. The game will be broadcast on CINR.
The Reds are favored by -154 on the moneyline and by -1.5 on the run line. The Giants are +142 on the moneyline and +1.5 on the run line. The total is set at 7.5 runs.
Find my MLB picks and Reds vs Giants prediction below, as well as probable pitchers, weather report, and more.
Reds vs Giants Prediction
- Reds vs Giants Pick: Reds -1.5 (+106)
My Reds vs Giants best bet is for the Reds to cover the run line. Make sure to find the best odds by checking our live MLB odds page.
Reds vs Giants Odds
| Reds Odds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spread | Total | Moneyline |
-1.5 +106 | 7.5 102o / -124u | -154 |
| Giants Odds | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spread | Total | Moneyline |
+1.5 -128 | 7.5 102o / -124u | +142 |
- Reds vs Giants moneyline: Reds -154, Giants +142
- Reds vs Giants over/under: 7.5 (+102o / -124u)
- Reds vs Giants spread: Reds -1.5 (+106), Giants +1.5 (-128)
Reds vs Giants Probable Pitchers
| Chase Burns (RHP, CIN) | Stat | Carson Whisenhunt (LHP, SF) |
|---|---|---|
| 14-2 | W-L | 3-4 |
| 4.1 | fWAR (FanGraphs) | -0.1 |
| 2.51 / 3.01 | ERA / xERA | 7.03 / 6.34 |
| 3.07 / 3.46 | FIP / xFIP | 5.65 / 5.79 |
| 20.3% | K-BB% | 2.0% |
| 37.1% | GB% | 35.2% |
| .275 | BABIP | .327 |
| 116 | Stuff+ | 94 |
| 112 | Location+ | 90 |
Reds vs Giants MLB Betting Preview
Cincinnati Reds Betting Preview
The Reds have just a fraction of a chance to make the postseason, but they'll deploy one of their bright young hopes for the future on Monday in Chase Burns.
The flamethrowing right-hander has been phenomenal in his first full season at this level, pitching to a 2.51 ERA and 1.11 WHIP — successfully growing out of his shell after something of a mixed bag in 2025.
Burns, like many high-strikeout arms, has had his issues with walks. He's now issued one to 8.7% of the batters he's faced in the big leagues, which puts him just higher than the league average, and he posted an unsightly 13.6% walk rate in July. That's since come down to 7.5% in August, and just about every one of his numbers has plummeted.
Burns is in the midst of his best month when it comes to Expected Batting Average and Expected Slugging, and he hasn't allowed a home run in any of his four starts.
He did surrender five runs to the Nationals in early August, inflating his ERA to 3.09 in the four outings, but under the hood everything looks just fine. His ability to pitch to fly balls in Cincinnati is admirable, and now he'll step into an even-friendlier environment when he pitches in San Francisco.
San Francisco Giants Betting Preview
Just about everything is going wrong for the Giants, who put up a great fight over the weekend in Boston but have still lost six of their last seven. They are in a hole that's even deeper than Cincinnati's, effectively eliminated from the playoffs already, and the young arm they'll send to the bump on Monday lacks the talent that Burns has.
Carson Whisenhunt hasn't pitched all that well at any one of his stops throughout his career. His WHIP in the minor leagues is a cumulative 1.37, a testament to his sky-high walk rates and his enormous strikeout potential.
He was a second-round pick and a semi-touted prospect because of this big strikeout potential, and of course prospects are all about which kind of player they could become.
Well, Whisenhunt could very well deliver on that potential one day, but the 25-year-old has some work to do.
In 12 outings across portions of the last two seasons, the left-hander has struck out just 15.3% of the batters he's faced. That's a very poor mark, sitting seven points below the league average, and unfortunately he's walked 12.5% of the batters he's faced — so he's lost his carrying tool (for now) while retaining his glaring issues.
Whisenhunt is an extreme fly ball pitcher, which can be useful in San Francisco, but with a dastardly 47.7% hard-hit rate, it hasn't really worked out in his favor. In fact, despite allowing a fair 8.3% barrel rate, Whisenhunt owns a .279 xBA and .485 xSLG — for reference, the league averages are .243 and .407, respectively.
Batters are just clubbing the ball into the outfield and finding grass, and it doesn't really look like they're having issues with the high whiff and chase rates that made Whisenhunt a strikeout machine at the lower levels.
There seems to be no real upward trajectory here for the young southpaw, either. He's struck out just three in his last two starts, spanning 9 2/3 innings, to five walks.
While he allowed just one run against the Astros, pitching to a nice .267 xwOBA, he went in the opposite direction against the Guardians when he surrendered seven runs, six of which were earned, in just four innings. He now has seven strikeouts and eight walks in 13 frames this month.
Reds vs Giants Pick, Betting Analysis
While the Reds haven't exactly been hitting the ball well of late, one thing they do is hit lefties.
They rank 10th in wRC+ in the split, despite posting a 25% strikeout rate, and they do this on account of an 11% walk rate against southpaws whi,ch ranks first in the league. Combined with a beefy .170 Isolated Power, you can see why the strikeouts don't really affect them all that much.
The Reds are still striking out a whole lot, doing so in 26.1% of plate appearances over the past two weeks, so perhaps Whisenhunt could discover that strikeout touch again here, just as he did against the Padres earlier this year, but my question is whether or not it will matter.
He still has absolutely no control over his arsenal, and the Reds — for all the bad we've seen at the plate over the last two weeks — are still walking in 9.1% of plate appearances.
The Giants' offense, meanwhile, has hit just .224 with a 24.1% strikeout rate and 8% walk rate in the last two weeks and ranks second-worst in baseball with a .596 OPS versus power pitchers.
I foresee plenty of strikeouts for Burns, and perhaps some from Whisenhunt, but overall a matchup where the more polished young arm asserts his dominance.
Pick: Reds -1.5 (+106, FanDuel) | Play to -110
