Houston Astros vs Texas Rangers Prediction: Expect a close matchup

Monday's baseball game will take place in Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas, and will feature a matchup between the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros. In the following, you will find a comprehensive review of the match along with betting possibilities.

Following Saturday's 8-2 victory for Houston, this head-to-head competition has now gone five straight meetings without producing back-to-back victors. Despite this, they have won three of their previous five matches, which is not a terrible record to have at this point. In spite of this, there are higher expectations placed on the Astros, as they are required to play better in this location. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, all eyes are going to be on the home club, which is the clear favorite in this matchup.

Texas has a record of 1-6 in their previous seven games within their division and a record of 0-5 in their last five road games versus teams that start a left-handed batter, while the over is 6-1 in their past seven games overall. In their past 62 games played overall, Houston has a record of 43-19; in their last 92 games played at home, they have a record of 64-28; and the over is 7-1 in their last 8 games played at home.

The Astros have my support in this contest. It's simply hard for me to believe in the Rangers when they have Andrew Heaney starting for them because I think a team would have to be in a very bad spot to bring this guy in as a starter for the middle spot in their starting rotation. The Houston Astros should be able to pull off the victory at home in primetime thanks to the dominant performance of Framber Valdez, who is widely considered to be the ace for the Astros.