Dinelson Lamet and Framber Valdez are promising young pitchers, who are coming back from injuries. Lamet has shown more upside and is further along than southpaw Valdez. I think it's wrong that Lamet and the Padres opened as underdogs.

Lamet finished fourth in the NL Cy Young Award voting last season. He's 1-0 with a 1.64 in five appearances this season. He's yet to pitch more than three innings because the Padres are being extremely careful with him. Lamet could start to get stretched out beginning with this game. 

Valdez is making his first start of 2021. He's probably going to be on a pitch count. Valdez was 5-3 with a 3.57 ERA last season. San Diego has won the last four times it has faced a lefty starter. 

The Padres have been red-hot winning 11 of their last 13 games. Houston is 1-4 in its last five games. 

This is just the second series of the season where the Padres get to use a DH. They swept the Rangers three games in their first road series against an AL opponent.