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Posted at 1:00 PM EST. Odds subject to change.

Washington over San Francisco

6:45 PM EST. MacKenzie Gore (RHP - WAS) was enjoying a breakout season, but he’s fallen on hard times of late, and we’re not going to try and spin it any other way. That said, he still brings a 10.3 K/9 strikeout rate into this game with a swing-and-miss rate of 12.5%. However, Gore is not the reason we are here, as we are here to fade the Giants’ Hayden Birdsong (RHP - SF), who cannot be road chalk in D.C. at this point in his career.

The Giants made room for Birdsong by trading Alex Cobb, as the former is 3-0 through six big starts. Birdsong was down at Single-A San Jose waiting to get back to the big club, as he last started on July 27. Birdsong has a surface ERA of 2.97, but that is supported by an xERA of 4.06 while also sporting a high strand rate of 83.8%. Perhaps Birdsong is legit, but he is overpriced here, and the team behind him is weak v LHP, as the Giants have the fourth most Ks in the majors against lefties. That makes the Nationals a bet and we hope to see you at the pay window.

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