Astros @ Athletics

The read

• Hunter Brown is dealing and Jacob Lopez is getting shelled — this is the cleanest arm gap on the board, lay it with Houston.
• Brown: 3.26 ERA, 1.27 WHIP, 44 K in his last 27.2 IP and seven scoreless on these same A's last Sunday; Lopez: 5.68 ERA, 1.53 WHIP, 8.49 ERA over his last five and no start past five innings.
• 182 is 64.5% implied and Sacramento plays small (total 9), so one bad Brown inning keeps it close — but the A's have to beat the better starter and the better lineup.