The inevitable took place once my Thursday free play went past regulation. You guessed it, yet another extra inning loss, this time with the Yankees as they lost in ten at Baltimore. I’ve got a rare O/U play on the diamond tonight.
MARINERS (Walker) at ASTROS (Fister)
Take: MARINERS/ASTROS OVER 8 -120
Two offenses that have it rolling right now get it on this evening as the Mariners and Astros continue their four-game weekend series.
Seattle came out on top with a 6-3 Thursday win and the Mariners have now scored 23 runs in their past three games. Houston hitters are happy to be home and the Astros have crossed home plate 25 times in their past three outings.
Taijuan Walker is now living up to the vast potential most experts believed he’s eventually flash, and he doesn’t figure to be easy to solve tonight. But the Astros have some lethal bats in their attack and they’re entirely capable of scoring on almost anyone in this ballpark. As for the Mariners, they’re no longer a station to station small ball entry that has to grind out runs. This team has some legit sock and I won’t be remotely surprised if they make life tough on Houston starter Doug Fister tonight.
I think we’re going to see some scoring at The Maid tonight. Both attacks are in superior form, it’s a ballpark that can definitely yield offense and on what projects as a nice, warm evening in Houston, the roof figures to be open and a decent breeze blowing out is in the forecast as well.
I like the idea of this game being reasonably high scoring. Over 8 looks quite playable and that’s the way I’m going to play this one.
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