hi it's Mitch from piic dogs.com here with your free pick in the Astros versus A's Major League Baseball matchup on Tuesday September 10th 20124 if you like all the free picks we do at pic dogs you'll love our premium picks our Best Bets just go to pic dogs.com click on the premium picks tab also got a link directly below this video in the description if you make bigger bets and you got a bank roll of $110,000 or more looking for VIP style packages we offer those as well they're just not available on the website they're easy to get though you just got to text the number you see on the screen but it's meant for big betters and they are most expensive premium packages but let's get to it got the Astros taking on the a it is uh Spencer arti on the mount for the Astros it is Oswaldo beo on the mound for the A's you know beo has been pretty solid this season coming off of uh a game where he pitched in relief against the Tigers prior to that he allowed four runs against the Mariners but outside of that he's really been pretty strong for an Oakland team that we all know is a team in transition and a team that you know really doesn't have a uh you know firm footing as to where they are as a franchise but beo he has started uh nine prior games we've seen him 16 times this season he's got a 3.41 erra on the year he has struck out 63 batters and walk 26 over 63 and a third Innings of work for that 3.41 ER over his last three starts though it is a 4.05 erra meanwhile for the Astros Spencer arti on on the mound here and he has pitched pretty well for the most part you know over the last 10 games but last time out against the Cincinnati Reds he got absolutely crushed two-thirds of an inning he allowed nine runs including a home run it was six hits three walks nothing went right he only you know retired two batters blew his ER all the way up to 5.26 151 strikeouts though over 125 Innings of work and of course his last three starts the erra only at 5. 65 because he had two shutouts going deep into games in his prior two starts to that one so was arag Getti worn down or uh is it just you know that's what he is because that we did see that same stuff from him earlier this season when we look at uh the way these teams are hitting the baseball two righties on the mound and the Astros hitting 271 versus righties while the a is hitting a very respectable 261 versus righties this is over their last 10 games and when we look at the bullpens for these teams 5.72 over their last 10 games for the A's and the Astros at 3.18 the A's just 7 and 23 in their last 30 against the Houston Astros but arag Getti uh the Astros just three and eight in his last 11 starts Oakland 54 and 113 in their last 167 on the road so we got a lot of negative Trends here but the only real positive one is that the Astros absolutely own the A's winning almost 70% of the time that these teams play I think arag Getti bounces back I'm going to take the 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