8* RUNLINE PIRATES (SPECIAL)

The Pirates are off an 8-7 win over Washington last night and I think it can keep the good times rolling here on Thursday in the opener of this 3 game set vs. the Brewers, who enter off a 5-3 win at Tampa. Adrian Houser is just 4-8 with a 4.54 ERA for Milwaukee, while, despite a 1-7 record, JT Brubaker of the Pirates enters with a very respectable 4.14 ERA (note that Houser is in fact just 1-4 with a 6.54 ERA and 1.67 WHIP over his last 6 starts.) In a contest that I see being decided late, or even in extras, I'm going to lay what I deem to be a very reasonable mid-sized price for the extra 1.5 runs in my back pocket; the play is Pittsburgh on the runline option!

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