#901/902 ASA TOP PLAY ON 10* Under 9 Runs – Texas Rangers vs Houston Astros, Wednesday at 8:03 PM ET - The Astros Cristian Javier has great stuff when he is on and, though he issued some walks, his stuff looked great in his first start of this post-season against the Twins. This followed him finishing up the regular season with allowing just 4 earned runs in 15.2 innings.over his last 3 starts. Overall, Javier has now allowed only 10 hits in his last 20.2 innings on the mound! We also are looking for a strong start from Max Scherzer. Here you have a veteran hurler pitching at home and looking for redemption for his lone post-season start with the Mets last season being an ugly one. Also looking to redeem himself after his most recent appearance against the Astros was an ugly one after Scherzer had a stellar outing in his start against Houston that preceded that one. Scherzer is coming back from a minor shoulder injury here so he may not work deep but we like this Rangers bullpen to also shut the door at home after a little bit of shakiness in hanging on in the Rangers 5-4 win at Houston in Game 2 of this series. That game did reach 9 runs (which is also the posted total on this game) but 6 of the Astros last 9 road games have totaled 8 or less runs. Those 9 road games have actually averaged only 6.8 runs per game! The Rangers 10 of last 12 games have totaled 8 or less runs and those 10 games averaged only 5.5 runs per game. We feel we have some excellent line value here as this total is inflated due to the big runs that were scored in the last regular season series here between these teams which was last month and saw the Astros sweep with huge run totals. This is playoff baseball now and per all of the above this one will, in all likelihood, be a tight low-scoring battle! Our computer math model projecting 6 to 7 runs here and even if it gets to 8 that is still a winning ticket for us. We are going with the Under in this one.