Houston Astros - Pittsburgh Pirates

Houston Astros are in rather poor form latealy, with 46-54 balance, mainly because os pathetic pitching stuff and I don't expect a better play today from them, even with a situation when they're trying to avoid a sweep at home. They have lost both previews games against Pirates, with overal 22 runs in both games, allowing 17 opponents! Today they'll start with mediocre Brian Moehrle (4.03 ERA) and I doubt he can be a tough nut to crack for guests, especially that his form is rather bad. Still Houston can win this game, because their batters aren't as bad and I expect a few runs from them also.

Pittsburgh Pirates are also rather weak in overal look, with the same 46-54 balance, but they're in better form, scorig a lot of runs in last days. They were solid against Astros in this series and also in a series against Rockies (they lost all four games), they had nine runs, allowing 28 runs opponents! Today they'll start with pathetic Ian Snell (5.83 ERA), who's 3-8 this year and I really doubt they ought to be favourites, even against such poor Houston. It's a typical over-ish game, without any favourite, where both pitchers will have a lot of problems. I prefer over 9 runs in here, with nice @ 1.80 at 5Dimes.

4 units* over 9 runs @ 1.80 at 5Dimes 

PICK WON

+3.2