Welcome to MLB DraftKings Saturday!

If you’ve played MLB DFS before, you probably already know the strategy to take down a tourney-select the top two pitching plays and stack two teams in hopes that they score a whole bunch of runs. Much easier said than done.

We have a nine-game main slate tonight with Chris Sale, Stephen Strasburg, and Jacob DeGrom leading the way as pitching plays priced above $10,000. We also have a nice low-price, high-price stack mix (that kind of sounds like snack mix so I’m going to use that) set up for tonight. Let’s first take a look at the pitching plays:

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Pitchers

Chris Sale (BOS): $12,000 @ OAK

He’s most certainly pricey, but Chris Sale is the only pitcher on tonight’s slate with an opponent’s projected team run total below 3.5 and a projected win percentage of at least 60%. The Red Sox don’t seem to be able to lose so fire up Sale against an A’s team that allowed Drew Pomeranz to rack up 7 Ks in only 3.2 innings pitched last night.