Tampa Bay Rays at Houston Astros Free Pick and Betting Lines. The 64-55 Houston Astros play host to the 59-59 Tampa Bay Rays tonight in MLB action on the grass of Minute Maid Park, August 18, 2015. The first pitch is scheduled for 8:10PM ET.
Betting Lines
Moneyline: Rays +110/Astros -120
O/U Total: 8
Pitching Matchup
Jake Odorizzi (R) W/L 6-6 WHIP 1.13 ERA
Scott Feldman (R) W/L 5-5 WHIP 1.29 ERA 4.17
Tampa Bay routed Houston 9-2 on Monday. They are 1-3 on their road trip and 5-3 in their last 8 games. The Astros are 2-2 on their homestand and 3-6 in their past 9 games. Houston is 40-20 at home in 2015.
The Rays lead the season series 4-0 and have a commanding 8-1 advantage in the last 9 encounters between these two clubs.
Odorizzi received his 3rd-straight no decision in his last start, a 9-6 win over Atlanta. He surrendered all 6 runs over 6 innings and struck out 6. He has 12 Q starts on the season.
Feldman was a 2-0 winner at San Francisco in his last outing. He went 6 innings and struck out 4 for his 10th Q start of the year.
TB OF Grady Sizemore is 4-8 (.500) against Feldman with a HR, 3 RBIs and a SB while OF Daniel Nava is 5-10 (.500) with a HR and 3 RBIs. SS Asdrubal Cabrera is 4-7 (.571) with an RBI vs. the right-hander while DH John Jaso is 3-11 (.273) with a HR and 2 RBIs. As a team, the Rays are hitting .355 against Feldman.
No one on Houston has more than 8 ABs against Odorizzi. SS Carlos Correa is 1-2 (.500) while OF Preston Tucker and C Hank Conger are both 1-3 (.333). The 7 other hitters to have faced the right-hander before are a combined 2-26 (.077) with 1 SB.
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Tampa Bay at Houston Astros Betting Trends
Tampa Bay is 1-4 straight up in their last 5 road games.
The Rays are 5-0 straight up in their last 5 games against Houston
The game total has gone under in 10 of Tampa Bay’s last 14 games against Houston.
The Astros are 4-9 straight up in their last 13 games overall.
Houston is 16-4 straight up in their last 20 home games.
Injury Report
TAMPA BAY RAYS
Jeff Beliveau P 60-Day Disabled List
Alex Cobb P 60-Day Disabled List
Burch Smith P 60-Day Disabled List
Steven Souza OF 15-Day Disabled List
HOUSTON ASTROS
Samuel Deduno P 60-Day Disabled List
Brad Peacock P 60-Day Disabled List
George Springer OF 15-Day Disabled List
Consensus Picks Moneyline
Tampa Bay: 34%
Houston: 66%
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The Rays’ starter Jake Odorizzi was lit up for six runs in on nine hits over six innings in his latest, but had pitched well before that getting the Q start in three straight games. He has owned the Astros batters holding the active roster to a lifetime .147 batting average in 38 plate appearances. Houston starter Scott Feldman has been well as of late with an impressive earned run average of 2.60 in his last three outings. He has however not had his best stuff at home with an embarrassing 5.56 ERA in eight starts this season. Feldman has not fared well against the Tampa Bay hitters with the active roster hitting .355 in 72 plate appearances!
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