#961 ASA PLAY ON Houston Astros -125 over Tampa Bay Rays, Monday at 6:50 PM ET - Houston has won 5 straight games and the Rays are off a tight win over Baltimore yesterday. Before the win yesterday Tampa Bay had lost 6 of 9 games and they have scored an average of only 3 runs per game in their 10 games since the end of July. TB is going to struggle against Framber Valdez here in this one. Valdez has allowed 9 earned runs on 20 hits in his last 5 starts and this is spanning 33.2 innings for him. He is in strong current form and certainly gives the Astros the edge on the mound over the Rays and Taj Bradley. The Tampa Bay right-hander has good numbers on the season but has allowed 9 earned runs in 9.2 innings over his last two starts. Remember that last season Bradley also faded as the season went on. We are seeing signs of that again from this season and the Astros are heating up again. Houston has won 5 straight games and 6 of last 7 road games. In those 7 games away from home, the Astros have scored an average of 6.3 runs per game. The road team is the bet in this one.