Houston Astros vs Minnesota Twins Prediction: Bet on over in this one

On Saturday, the first game of the American League Division Series (ALDS) will take place at Minute Maid Park, featuring a matchup between the Houston Astros and the Minnesota Twins.

The Houston Astros came out on top of the American League West division on the very last day of the regular season to claim the division title and advance to the playoffs as champions. The Houston Astros concluded the season with a record of 90-72, which gave them the edge over the Texas Rangers in the head-to-head tiebreaker. Alex Bregman has 25 home runs, 98 RBIs, and a team-high 163 hits, while Kyle Tucker leads the Astros with a batting average of.284, 112 runs batted in, an on-base percentage of .369, 37 doubles, and 29 home runs. This season, Yordan Alvarez leads the team in home runs with 31, and he also leads the team in RBIs with 97, while Tucker leads the team in stolen bases with 30. This game will be started for the Houston Astros by Justin Verlander, who finished the regular season with a record of 13-8, a 3.22 earned run average, and 144 strikeouts.

Following a game-two victory by a score of 2-0 in their most recent contest, the Minnesota Twins are now ready to compete in the American League Division Series after having just completed a two-game sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League Wild Card series. In the game that the Minnesota Twins won, they had a total of seven hits, none of which were for extra bases. Carlos Correa and Jorge Polanco each had two hits out of three, with Correa contributing one run batted in. Edouard Julien, Max Kepler, and Willi Castro each got one hit for the Minnesota Twins. Sonny Gray pitched well enough to get the victory on the mound, allowing only five hits and striking out six batters over the course of five innings. Jhoan Duran earned his second save in as many postseason contests by finishing off the ninth inning. The Minnesota Twins will send out Bailey Ober to start this game. Ober finished the regular season with a record of 8-6, a 3.43 earned run average, and 146 strikeouts.

I am presently focusing on this over here. While wearing the uniform of the Astros, Justin Verlander had both highs and lows, and he finished the season by allowing a large number of runs in each of his final three home starts. Bailey Ober has been good for the most part, but he has a tendency to miss out over the plate, and I believe that despite the fact that this appears to be a good pitching matchup on paper, this matchup is going to result in some runs being scored. Give me the over in this match because I anticipate a significant amount of offensive play from both teams.