Cajun Sports

The Toronto Blue Jays are in Texas Houston to be exact taking on the host Astros. The Jays lost Game One on Friday by a score of 10 to 4 and look to rebound on Saturday night. While the resurgent Astros appear to be finding their way and have played with some momentum of late winners of eight in their last eleven when installed as chalk. The Blue Jays will send left-hander Steven Matz to the bump with his 4-2 SU record and his ERA of 4.78. The Astros will counter with Cristian Javier and his 3-0 SU record and an ERA of just 1.75 on the season. Javier has a WHIP of only 0.896 on the year. Our TPR Index projects a run advantage of 1.52 runs. The SPMatrix has Cristian Javier with an average of 8.06 compared to Steven Matz who has an average of 7.45. Our next set of metrics look at the overall Pitchers Power Rating of 120 for Javier and 108 for Matz with 100 as the league average. The overall Offensive Power numbers have the Astros with the advantage in this category with a 113 to 102 edge over the Birds. Play AGAINST MLB +100 to +150 underdogs revenging a road blowout loss of six or more runs, winning between fifty-one to fifty-four percent of their games on the season, 32-80 SU (28.6%) (+3899 against). Play ON MLB home favorites of more than -130 when they are coming off a home game in which they struck out fewer than fifteen times, 1957-1055 SU (65%) (+9720). Play ON MLB home favorite during the regular season coming off a win in which they allowed six or fewer hits and it did not end a three or more games losing streak, 3241-2081 SU (60.9%) (+7903). Lay the chalk with the home team on Saturday night as the Astros secure the series victory with a win in Game Two.