This is a 10* ASSASSIN on the Seattle Mariners.

The Giants hand the ball to ace Madison Bumgarner (7-3, 3.16 ERA) who went eight frames, giving up just one run on nine hits, walking three and striking out seven, but was a hard luck loser in a 1-0 setback to the Diamondbacks on Friday. Bumgarner has been razor sharp so far this year, the same though can't be said of his counterpart today and the guy we're backing as Felix Hernandez (9-3, 3.38 ERA) is coming off a couple of sub-par efforts, including his worst start of his career after giving up eight runs in a 1/3 of an inning to the Astros on Friday. So is it time hit the panic button if you're a Hernandez fan? Obviously not, while the last little stretch of ineptitude is disturbing, "The King" has all of the tools in place to make a bounce back and that's what I'm fully expecting here. As good as Bumgarner has been of late, I think the focus in which Hernandez comes in with will prove to be the difference here, in my opinion, this is the very definition of "great line value." Play on the MARINERS.

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