With three and a half weeks left in the regular season, the Houston Astros are following the best record in the AL.. Do they draw closer on Thursday night?
Seattle (58-82, -14.7 components ) in Houston (90-50, +0.6 units)
Thursday, Sept. 5, ET – at Minute Maid Park
Because -245 house favorites and this figure is only expected to rise, on the surface that does not appear to be having Houston.
Realistically, the only question is do you back Houston on the jog line or the money line? However, is it? When these Astros dropped to Detroit 2-1 to -550 favorites as -520 lest we forget , it was just 15 days past. Should this be a concern? If we delve deeper news about this matchup? Definitely.
Season Oddities About Each Club
We have mentioned this before in the Mariners but it needs to be replicated. Seattle started the season 13-2, ripping the cover off the ball on offense, averaging 7.9 runs a game. Needless to say, the crime has cooled considerably into a season mark of 4.9 RPG.
Because that streak ended the M’s would be 45-80. That’s a .360 percentage win percentage, that is still better than Detroit (.294) and Baltimore (.331), however on par with Kansas City (.360).
Houston gets the second-fewest declines in the majors at 50, which joins them together with the Dodgers and leaves them one behind the New York Yankees who have 49. (as of 9/4). Where this gets is the numbers for those betting baseball.
The Astros despite being 40 games over .500 have less than one unit of profit to show for their own winning. The Yankees would be the best bet at the game at +21.3 units and the Dodgers are 4th in +15.3. Where the clean up on Aisle 4 comes into play is on the road and within an area.
Houston’s 37-33 away mark leaves them -12.3 units and they’re -11.5 units contrary to the AL Central with its own three god-awful clubs.
Starting Pitching Matchup Does Not Suck
The title of this section is made from Cubs director Joe Madden, whose large message will be»Try not to suck».
That could be the case for both of tonight’s starting pitchers, the Mariners’ Marco Gonzales (14-11, 4.30 ERA) along with the Astros’ Wade Miley (13-6, 3.06 ERA).
Take the lefty Gonzales off the Seattle staff and their album would be much more miserable. The one facet that Gonzales brings to the Mariners is that helps them perform better and that they understand they have a chance to win.
Miley proceeds to amaze, moving out of a washed-up hurler nearly 14 months ago to a successful No. 3 starter on a World Series competition.
The Outcome
Before, we raised the question if you’d choose to back them, ML or RL for MLB selections? From a value betting standpoint, one has to take the Astros at. Seattle is a versus Houston and they’ve only covered the streak line four occasions.
Gonzales has not conquered at his rival and is now 1-4 on the RL. Miley is 6-1 when handing out 1.5 runs to Seattle and can be 18-5 against the RL vs. teams averaging 1.25 or more home runs a game this year.
Free MLB Select: Astros RL -130 at BetOnline
Writer/handicapper Doug Upstone can be 115-82 since June 1st at MLB at sports courses and is currently 18-9 of late at baseball SBR.
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