Pittsburgh @ HOUSTON
Pittsburgh +184 over HOUSTON

Pinnacle +184 BET365 +180 SportsInteraction +180 5DIMES +180

Posted at 12:30 PM EST.

2:10 PM EST. We make mistakes and personally, I take responsibility for it. We have been touting the Pirates for weeks, suggesting there is nothing but profits awaiting and then we proceeded to play them in two out of the three games against the Brew Crew at that time and two of three against Atlanta. We lost all four bets and then came off them. Pittsburgh subsequently won seven of its next 10 games and were a dog in five of those. We had them just once so we failed to capitalize on what we knew --- that this is a live dog because its offense is scary good. Last night, as a +220 dog, Pittsburgh scored 14 runs. The Pirates are on pace to shatter the record for pinch-hitting production and batting average. Its bench is deep. Since the beginning of June, the Pirates rank top-5 in so many offensive categories, including OPS (4th), least amount of strikeouts (2nd) and batting average (1st). This is the most underrated offense in baseball and that makes them a serious threat to win every single day. More importantly, the Pirates are taking back ridiculous prices because they have very little market credibility.

We could get into the pitching matchup here but this wager is not based on that. As long as it’s not Gerritt Cole, no starter on the Astronauts is worthy of being this price against the Pirates great offense and that includes Brad Peacock, a career starter/reliever (171 games, 82 starts in his career), that has a 39%/42% groundball/fly-ball split and that has six wins in 14 starts this year. The Pirates have not had an offense like this since the “We are Family” days and must be played at these prices. If we lose, we’re not backing down, as we’ll reiterate that there is nothing but profits awaiting from now until the market catches up to just how good this offense/team is.

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Our Pick

Pittsburgh +184 (Risking 2 units - To Win: 3.68)

San Diego under 83½ -105
Boston under 79½ -110