Jumping on the Padres in Petco Tuesday night at the near pick'em price tag. Both the Astros and Padres come into the series playing solid baseball. The Astros have won four straight and the Padres swept the Giants over the weekend in blowout fashion with a run differential of (17-3) in the series. Possible World Series preview if things break right for each of these teams. Edge pointing to the Friars in Tuesday's matchup due to the starting pitching angle. 

The slated starters are Hunter Brown vs Mike King. Houston starter Brown is off a flop, giving up 9 hits and 5 earned runs to the Athletics. Now, he is tasked with working against the number two lineup across MLB against righties in San Diego's powerful bats (ranking by the wRC+ metric). Padres starter King is off six straight starts giving up no more than 2 earned runs in any of them. Even better, back to back 1 earned run starts and has compiled 191 strikeouts on the season. We get the edge with King over Brown and are firing away with the home Friars at the short price. Bet Padres.