Oakland Athletics infielder Nick Allen is not in the lineup for Wednesday's series finale against right-hander Hunter Brown and the Houston Astros.
Allen will take a seat after he went 3-for-7 with an RBI and a strikeout in the first two games of the series. Kevin Smith will cover shortstop and hit ninth for Oakland.
numberFire’s models project Smith ($2,200) for 5.4 FanDuel points on Wednesday. Per our MLB Heat Map, the Athletics' implied total is 3.56, third-lowest on the board, and the game total is 8.0. Brown has a 4.78 ERA and 4.06 xERA this season. He gives up a lot of hard hits (44.0%) and Brown's strikeout percentage has fallen to 24.6% since the break. However, in 19 innings against the Athletics this season, Brown has gone 3-for-3 in quality starts while allowing just 5 runs on 15 hits and striking out 23.
Source: MLB.com