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hi it's Mitch from piic dogs.com here with your free pick in the Orioles versus Astros Major League Baseball matchup on Sunday August 25th 2024 if you like all the free picks we do at pick dogs you'll love our premium picks our Best Bets you just go to piic dogs.com you click on the premium picks tab or I've put a link directly below this video in the description if you make bigger bets like a ,000 or more per game looking for that VIP coner style service we offer that as well you just got to text the number you see on this on the screen it's not for everyone but if you make those big bets text the number but let's get to it we've got the Orioles taking on the Astros and of course these are two teams thinking playoffs this season the Astros getting it done in the American League West while the Orioles battling it out with the Yankees in the American League East they look good in the Wild Card race but even that it that is a little bit dicey at this point with the way the Royals and twins are playing and the Orioles could end up as much as third in the wild card while you know or they could be the American League East Champs but you know it they haven't played their best baseball over the last month it's been choppy and while you know five and five or you know over the last 10 or anything like that it sounds okay but it's not division winning type stuff down the stretch here you know when the dog days of summer are over we're in What's called the pennant drive at this point right and the Orioles not really pennet driving kind a little bit penet diving I think um is is more like it when we look at um the Astros they go with Kikuchi in this game of course they traded for him to the Blue Jays I thought that um you know Kikuchi last year was going to have a big bounceback season he had it this year we didn't really see that type of stuff from him in uh in in Toronto but since being traded to the Astros he's been pretty good last time out he they won the game um you know he only gave up one run but it was kind of a head scratcher right it was the first pitch of the game got knocked out of the park on him and uh you know you're always a little bit worried but you know they have won his last five starts so you know the Astros generally know what they're doing when it comes to acquiring pitchers at the trade deadline you can look at their history of doing that throughout the years they have had some major success doing that look at the way these teams are hitting the baseball coming into this particular game the Orioles against left-handed pitching over their last 10 games hitting 234 and just 208 versus righties over their last 10 games so the bats just haven't really been there it's a 218 team batting average over their last 10 their Bullpen has a 3.93 erra over the last 10 games as well the Astros hitting significantly better as a team 246 versus that 218 for the Orioles over the last 10 you look at them versus righties 243 lefties 256 that's what you call pretty even so there's nowhere to hide against this batting order and the bullpen are very respectable three-point 3.34 erra you know it's August almost into September this is where the Astros have really proved it out throughout the years 18- seven in their last 25 in Baltimore as well 37 and 17 in their last 54 against the Orioles I think they pad those numbers here I'm going to take the Houston Astros and that's going to be my free pick of course while you're doing your picks putting your bets in use our free betting tools at sportschatplace.com they're 100% free and they'll help put you on the most favorable bets on the board today