Two of baseball’s best sluggers square off when the Los Angeles Dodgers (46-30) and the Washington Nationals (31-44) play at 10:10 p.m. ET on Saturday at Dodger Stadium. Shohei Ohtani has 25 home runs (third in the majors) for the favored Dodgers (-279), and James Wood ranks sixth in MLB play with 20 round-trippers this season for the Nationals (+226). Dustin May starts for Los Angeles, and Jake Irvin is Washington’s choice to start.

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Dodgers vs. Nationals betting lines

• Favorite: Dodgers (-279)
• Underdog: Nationals (+226)
• Over/under: 9

Dodgers betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Dodgers betting info

• The Dodgers have won 63.5% of the games this season when they were the moneyline favorite (40-23).
• When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -279 or shorter, Los Angeles has an 8-1 record (winning 88.9% of its games).
• The Dodgers have an implied moneyline win probability of 73.6% in this game.
• In the 76 games in which oddsmakers have set an over/under for Los Angeles, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 43 times (43-31-2).
• The Dodgers have collected a 34-42-0 record against the spread this season.

Dodgers hitting info

• Ohtani paces the Dodgers with 25 home runs.
• Ohtani ranks third in home runs and 33rd in RBI among all hitters in MLB play.
• Mookie Betts is hitting .256 with eight doubles, a triple, nine home runs and 35 walks.
• Betts ranks 83rd in home runs among hitters in baseball and 72nd in RBI.
• Andy Pages has put up a team-high 50 runs batted in.
• Freddie Freeman is batting .332 to pace his team.

Dodgers pitching rankings

• The Dodgers pitching staff ranks sixth in the majors with a collective 8.9 strikeouts per nine innings.
• Los Angeles has the 21st-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.18).
• Pitchers for the Dodgers combine for the 20th-ranked WHIP in MLB (1.309).
• Dodgers pitchers combine to give up 94 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (23rd-fewest in baseball).
• Los Angeles lost to the Padres 5-3 in its last game with six strikeouts while allowing 11 hits.

Nationals betting info, hitting leaders, & pitching

Nationals betting info

• The Nationals have entered the game as underdogs 60 times this season and won 28, or 46.7%, of those games.
• Washington has not entered a game this season with longer moneyline odds than +226.
• The moneyline for this contest implies a 30.7% chance of a victory for the Nationals.
• Washington and its opponents have gone over the total this season in 33 of its 74 opportunities.
• The Nationals are 37-37-0 ATS in their 74 games with a spread this season.

Nationals hitting info

• Wood is batting .284 with 20 home runs and 56 RBI. All three of those stats are best among Washington hitters this season.
• Wood’s home run total ranks sixth in the big leagues, and he is ninth in RBI.
• C.J. Abrams has collected 67 hits this season and has an OBP of .349. He’s slugging .465 on the year.
• Abrams is 83rd in homers and 175th in RBI among all hitters in MLB.
• Luis Garcia has collected 63 base hits, an OBP of .310 and a slugging percentage of .415 this season.
• Garcia has safely hit in three straight games. In his last five games he is batting .353 with a double, a home run, a walk and three RBIs.
• Nathaniel Lowe is batting .227 with an OBP of .294 and a slugging percentage of .376 this season.

Nationals pitching rankings

• The Nationals have an 8.1 K/9 this season as a pitching staff, which ranks 19th in the big leagues.
• Washington has pitched to a 4.93 ERA this season, which ranks 28th in baseball.
• The Nationals rank 24th in MLB with a combined 1.381 WHIP this season.
• The Nationals have given up the 19th-fewest long balls so far this season with 85 home runs allowed.
• Last time out, Washington defeated the Rockies, 4-3, with 13 strikeouts and 11 hits allowed.