Dylan Rockford preferred attacking Colorado’s offense directly, recommending the Rockies team-total under (4.5 or lower). Brandon Walter has surrendered more than two earned runs only once all year and now draws a Colorado lineup averaging barely four runs per game at Coors versus lefties. The Astros bullpen sits top-three in ERA, giving Colorado little relief once Walter exits. Given Freeland’s struggles, Dylan expects Houston to lead comfortably, limiting pinch-hit leverage for Colorado and keeping their scoring ceiling muted.

Scott Reichel labeled the Astros –1.5 at roughly –122 a bet-or-pass spot. Colorado is a league-worst 8-33 at Coors, and Kyle Freeland is 1-9 with a 5.56 ERA, creating a massive starting-pitching gap versus Houston rookie Brandon Walter. Although the Astros are sub-.500 on the road, Scott stressed that anything under –150 on the run line is actionable because Houston’s superior lineup faces the worst home team in baseball and a bullpen that ranks bottom-five in ERA.

Cash Out Sports Picks recommended laying the juice with Houston. The Astros are 52-34, winners in eight of their last ten and sitting atop the AL West, while Colorado drags the worst record in baseball at 19-67 with only two victories in the last ten. Hunter Brown has been "dealing all season" and draws a Rockies lineup that strikes out at a top-of-the-board clip. Offensively, Houston ranks top-10 in batting average and excels with runners in scoring position, a bad recipe for Austin Gomber, who rarely misses bats. With talent edges on the mound and at the plate, the tout labeled the Astros money line his preferred side.

It’s The Final Round identified Jake Meyers as a plus matchup against Rockies southpaw Kyle Freeland. Meyers is 2-for-3 (.667) off Freeland and has notched a hit in 15 of his last 17 games. With Freeland’s diminishing velocity and Coors-field-boosted run environment, the tout likes Meyers to go over 0.5 hits and serve as a low-salary DFS salary-saver in Houston stacks.

Eric Lindquist advised betting Isaac Paredes’ home-run prop if books post anything better than +295 for Thursday’s game at Coors. Lindquist dug into Statcast’s Pull-Air leaderboard, noting that Paredes ranks top-5 in MLB for percentage of balls pulled in the air—a trait Houston specifically targeted because it plays perfectly to their Minute Maid short porch. That profile becomes even more dangerous at Coors, where the forecast again calls for a double-digit wind blowing straight out to left. Lindquist added that Rockies lefty Kyle Freeland owns a 302 expected batting average, a 10-degree average launch angle, and very little swing-and-miss, meaning lots of elevated contact in the jet stream. He personally grabbed +350 earlier in the day and would still play it down to +295, calling anything above that “pure value.”

Malcom Bamford kept it simple: Astros –1.5. Hunter Brown has been lights-out, tossing seven scoreless with nine strikeouts against Philadelphia last week and logging a 1.71 ERA over his past five. On the flip side, Austin Gomber served up nine earned in his last Coors appearance and carries a 5.55 career ERA versus Houston. Bamford added that the Rockies are 11-23 on the run line as home underdogs and own MLB’s worst bullpen by WAR. He expects Brown to hand a multi-run lead to a top-10 Houston pen and called the run line "an easy, if boring, ticket."

Dylan Rockford recommended isolating Houston’s offense with an over 5.5 team total at –115. Austin Gomber’s boom-bust pattern (one good, one bad) has him "due for a blow-up," and Coors’ thin air amplifies every mistake. The Astros own a .793 OPS versus lefties—virtually identical to their righty split—and have averaged 5.4 runs in their last 10. Even if Gomber survives, Colorado’s bullpen sports a 5.33 ERA and league-worst 1.63 WHIP at home. Rockford projected Houston for 6.2 runs and sees little reason to mess with the inflated –250 money line or a 10.5 total he considers fair.

Jake Meyers is 4-for-6 (.667) in the limited but perfect BvP sample against Austin Gomber and has recorded a hit in 15 of his last 16 games. The tout flagged him as a sneaky leg in hit parlays.