ASA top play on 10* UNDER 8 Houston Astros @ Los Angeles Angels, 9 PM ET - On the season the Astros are one of the higher scoring teams in baseball with 597 runs on the year in 4397 at bats which ranks 9th best. In their last eleven games though they have managed to score only 41 runs and are hitting .241 as a team. Today the Astros will have a tough time putting up runs against Angels starting pitcher Shohei Ohtani who has a 2.67 ERA and 1.06 WHIP on the season. In Ohtani’s last ten starts he is allowing just 1.60 Earned runs and an average of 5 hits per game. In two games against the Astros this season Ohtani has pitched 12 innings, just 1 earned run on 5 total hits and struck out 12 in each game. The Angels are one of the lowest scoring teams in baseball with 502 total runs in 132 games. In their last 27 games the Angels are averaging just 3.44 runs per game while hitting .223 as a team. The Astros will send Luis Garcia to the mound today and even though he doesn’t have great overall number, he is trending in the right direction with a better XERA and XFIP. Garcia doesn’t have to be great in this game to shutout the poor hitting Angels. The play here is UNDER 8 runs.