Washington starter Josiah Gray has excelled in two areas this season - pitching on the road and in day games. The righthander is 4-0 with a 1.89 ERA in away matchups and 4-0 with a 0.89 ERA during day action. Both situations occur today. The Rangers are 26th in on-base percentage. They are 18-26 versus righthanded starters. Texas is 24th in slugging percentage against righties.

Gray has been in good form, too, permitting only one earned run during his three June starts spanning 17 innings.

Righthander Paolo Espino just held the Rangers to one run in 5 1/3 innings in last night's game won by the Nationals.

The Rangers have decided to start reliever Matt Bush. So this is going to be a bullpen game for Texas as Bush hasn't pitched more than one inning in a game all year. That means the Nationals could get a crack at Taylor Hearn, who has been pulled from the Rangers' starting rotation having already surrendered 17 runs in 18 2/3 innings this month.

The Nationals have the eighth-highest batting average in baseball. They have three legitimate dangerous power-hitters in Juan Soto, Josh Bell and Nelson Cruz.

(Editor's note: Stephen Nover has Max Unit plays today in both the WNBA and CFL. Stephen has won 66 percent of his CFL plays going back to the start of last season and has won 60 percent of his last 20 WNBA plays. These are Stephen's strongest plays these months in these beatable niche sports.)