New York Yankees at Houston Astros 7/21/22 - MLB Picks & Predictions

The New York Yankees will travel on the road to the state of Texas to face off against the Houston Astros on Thursday for the second game of a doubleheader with a scheduled first pitch time of 6:40 PM Eastern. This game will be available on MLB extra innings. New York comes into this game of the record on the season of 64–28, and they played phenomenal beating the Boston Red Sox in a three game series scoring 34 total runs.

Houston Astros come into this game losing three out of their last five games against Oakland twice, and against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The two victories came on the road against Los Angeles in extra innings by the score of 3–2, and a shut out at home against Oakland by five runs.

New York is led by Aaron Judge and almost every offensive statistical category including home runs with 33, batting average at pointe to 84, and RBIs currently at 70.

Yordan Álvarez is the Houston Astros team leader in home runs with 26, the team leader in batting average at 3.06, and the team leader in RBIs with 62 on the season. Kyle Tucker also has added 18 home runs with the batting average of .252.