Texas at Houston

Texas has lost nine in a row, including 1-0 to the Astros on Monday when Hunter Brown pitched six scoreless innings on three hits in his major league debut. Now Houston has Framber Valdez going tonight and it has won his last five starts and he is 14-4 with a sparkling 2.63 ERA this season and Valdez has allowed only eight runs his last 35 1/3 innings. Valdez has dominated the Rangers this year allowing three earned runs in 28 innings for a 0.96 ERA with a .204 opponent batting average. Glenn Otto has a 4.84 ERA and 1.38 WHIP for Texas, which has lost seven of the last eight meetings and the Rangers are 8-19 their past 27 games versus teams with winning records and 15-37 their past 52 meetings with the Astros, who are 43-16 their past 59 home games and 40-16 overall versus the AL West. Also, Houston has won nine of 10 against teams with losing records. Max Play on the Astros.