{"id":2853,"date":"2018-05-26T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T12:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.offshoresportsbooks.com\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2024-07-17T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T13:09:21","slug":"american-league-battle-houston-astros-at-cleveland-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.offshoresportsbooks.com\/news\/american-league-battle-houston-astros-at-cleveland-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"American League Battle: Houston Astros at Cleveland Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After meeting last weekend in <strong>Houston<\/strong>, the <strong>Astros<\/strong> and Indians are getting together again this weekend in Cleveland. The Astros won two of three games last weekend and have now won the first two games of this four-game series.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoresportsbooks.com\/review\/mybookie\/\">The Houston Astros are -115 over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the <strong>Astros<\/strong> are one of the hottest teams in baseball. They have won five in a row and 13 of their last 16 games. At 34-18 on the season, only the <strong>Red<\/strong> <strong>Sox<\/strong> have won more games this season. Nevertheless, Houston\u2019s lead atop the AL West is only three games over the Mariners.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cleveland<\/strong>, meanwhile, remains atop the AL Central despite a losing record. Despite sweeping a two-game set against the Cubs midweek, the Indians have only won four of their last 10 games. They looked poised to take Friday\u2019s game against the Astros after getting 6.1 scoreless innings from Corey Kluber. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/astros\/article\/Astros-rally-to-bludgeon-Indians-bullpen-12945522.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">But the <strong>Cleveland<\/strong> bullpen gave up 11 runs over the final two innings, as the Indians loss to the Indians 11-2.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"rinse-and-repeat\">Rinse and Repeat<\/h2>\n<p>After throwing seven shutout innings against the Indians last Sunday, <strong>Lance<\/strong> <strong>McCullers<\/strong> <strong>Jr<\/strong>. will be looking to repeat that good fortune on Saturday. McCullers had easily his best performance of the season in that game, allowing just one hit and two walks while striking out eight. He\u2019ll undoubtedly have confidence that he can shut down <strong>Cleveland\u2019s<\/strong> lineup again.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it\u2019ll be up to the <strong>Indians<\/strong> to make some adjustments and get some redemption for their pitiful showing against McCullers last weekend. On the season, <strong>Cleveland\u2019s<\/strong> lineup has produced plenty of runs, but outside of a 10-run outburst against the Cubs on Tuesday, they\u2019ve struggled over the past week. Outside of Michael Brantley and Jose Ramirez, no one in Cleveland\u2019s lineup has produced much lately, and those two may not be enough to get anything done against McCullers.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"another-chance\"><strong>Another Chance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/tribe\/index.ssf\/2018\/05\/cleveland_indians_houston_astr_49.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carlos Carrasco opposed <strong>McCullers<\/strong> last <strong>Sunday<\/strong> and he\u2019ll do so again Saturday night.<\/a> He matched 0\u2019s with McCullers for six innings that game, but Carrasco was eventually charged with three runs over 7.2 innings. It was a fine performance, but he may need to be even better on Saturday to out-duel McCullers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a solid performance against the <strong>Astros<\/strong> last weekend, most of Houston\u2019s hitters have good career numbers against Carrasco. The Indians will also avoid having to face Josh Reddick. However, Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman, George Springer, and Yuli Gurriel are all hitting over .300 over the past week. The <strong>Astros<\/strong> are also riding high after scoring 11 runs in the last two innings Friday, so they\u2019ll enter Saturday\u2019s game with plenty of momentum and confidence.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"keep-streaking\"><strong>Keep Streaking<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>Astros<\/strong> are heating up, and it\u2019s going to be tough for the Indians to stop them in their tracks. Even if McCullers hadn\u2019t pitched a gem against Cleveland last weekend, there are plenty of reasons to believe he\u2019ll have a good outing on Saturday. More importantly, Cleveland\u2019s bullpen has been dreadful this season, and they struggled again on Friday. Unless <strong>Carrasco<\/strong> can throw a complete game, it\u2019s hard to imagine Houston\u2019s bats being contained following their 11-run outburst Friday night.\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoresportsbooks.com\/review\/mybookie\/\">Take the Houston Astros -115 over Cleveland Indians on Saturday.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/offshoresportsbooks.com\/review\/mybookie\/\">Bet the NBA Playoffs at MyBookie<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cleveland Indians will take on the Houston Astros on Saturday in Major League Baseball action.","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.0 - 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