ACTION on pitchers. ASA PLAY ON Houston Astros -135 over Atlanta Braves, Tuesday at 8:09 PM ET – The Astros have been very strong at home.  Houston finished 21 games over .500 in home games in the regular season and are 4-1 in home games thus far in the post-season.  Note that the Braves have lost 3 of 5 road games in this post-season and just playing the home team in all Atlanta games in these playoffs would have netted you an 8-2 betting record to date.  Framber Valdez is off a fantastic outing versus the Red Sox last week and holds an edge here in that he has always pitched in the NL and the Braves just don't have hitters with a lot of experience against him.  Charlie Morton, on the other hand, is a former Astro who also was with the Rays in recent seasons.  While in the starting rotation for TB he did end up facing his former team a few times.  The last start he made at Houston was a disaster as he was charged with 6 earned runs in just 4 innings.  Morton is a solid veteran pitcher but coming off B2B shaky post-season outings too.  He walked 6 in 5 innings in most recent start against Dodgers and allowed 6 baserunners (4 hits, 1 walk, 1 hit batter) in just 3 and 1 / 3 innings in the start that preceded that when he faced the Brewers.  No matter who the starting pitchers are here, we are riding the more experienced post-season team in Game 1 and we will grab the home team at a very fair price (rather small favorite) on the money line in this one and bet Houston Astros -135