This game is the epitome why game matchups mean squat. You read the stats about how Hou is 21 - 6 at home and Yanks struggle last ten, not to mention the keuchel vs Yanks stats. What handicapper I ask you, if comes across all these standard game stats that appear in any standard game matchup, would come away thinking 'Yankees here for sure'....
None. Thousands of people who do the game matchup thing would have come across this game and circled it. But the line opened opened at 155 and went as low as 125 I believe, then it climbed back up to 157 the two hours preceding the game. I read that as someone jumped all over that game and put a lot of money down at +145. That someone probably has the means to know the reason why +145 is and edge for the player. Then the hours beefier the game all the game matchup money was placed on the game and they were loving the -127 that was posted around noon eastern. The public money drove the price back up on Hou and late comers were forced to pay -157.