Chicago Cubs at Washington 7:30 ET
Nationals over Cubs- It was been 17 years since Major League baseball has had a repeat winner as the Cubs open defense of their World Championship. Both of tonight's starters in Washington have been outstanding the second half of the season as Chicago starter Kyle Hendricks (7-5, 3.03 ERA) who has an NL best 2.19 ERA after returning from his hand injury on July 24th. Nationals starter Steve Strasburg (15-4, 2.52) was 6-1 after the All-Star break with an ERA of 0.86 and 76 strikeouts in his last 63 innings. Take WASHINGTON!