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Washington Nationals at Detroit Tigers

Game preview · Monday, September 21, 2026

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Latest model projection

Updated Sep 21, 2026 · 4:07 AM EDT

Model projection only. It is not an official tracked pick and does not enter the public record.

The betting line

DET -1.5

Sportsbooks make Detroit Tigers the favorite by 1.5. Expected combined score: 8

DraftKings · updated Mon, 4:07 AM EDT

Our projected score

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Kickoff

Mon, 6:40 PM EDT

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Our recommendations on this game

The team recommendation, the full-game total and the player recommendations for this matchup, side by side. The full-game total is its own market, shown in its own panel above. Only high-rated recommendations taken at a locked DraftKings price are used on a parlay card, and a card never takes two legs from the same game.

Team

No high-rated team recommendation on this matchup. We only show one here when DraftKings posted the number and price and we locked a high-rated recommendation before kickoff.

Players

Gleyber Torres over 0.5 hits-208DraftKings line 0.5 · rating high · line recorded Sep 20, 11:08 PM EDT · result pending
Brady House over 0.5 hits-156DraftKings line 0.5 · rating high · line recorded Sep 20, 11:08 PM EDT · result pending
Dylan Crews over 0.5 hits-173DraftKings line 0.5 · rating high · line recorded Sep 20, 11:08 PM EDT · result pending
Max Clark over 0.5 hits-169DraftKings line 0.5 · rating high · line recorded Sep 20, 11:08 PM EDT · result pending

Each number and price is the DraftKings figure recorded before kickoff and never changed afterwards. Times are Eastern.

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Player prop angles

Our model projects individual stat lines from each player's recent games and the matchup in front of them, then compares that projection to the live sportsbook number. Where a book has not posted a prop yet, the line shown is our own.

Riley Greene over 0.5 hits
DET · LF
We project 1.6Recent average 1.6 over 5 gamesConfidence mediumLine DraftKings -188
Riley Greene has averaged 1.6 hits over 5 games this season, and the matchup is roughly neutral. The DraftKings line is 0.5 (-188), and our model projects 1.6 — 1.1 above the number, so the play is the over.
Still qualifies at the current line. Advisory only. The official pick and our published record do not change: the result is still graded against the line and price exactly as they were locked.
Keibert Ruiz over 0.5 hits
WSH · C
We project 1.4Recent average 1.4 over 5 gamesConfidence mediumLine DraftKings -155
Keibert Ruiz has averaged 1.4 hits over 5 games this season, and the matchup is roughly neutral. The DraftKings line is 0.5 (-155), and our model projects 1.4 — 0.9 above the number, so the play is the over.
Still qualifies at the current line. Advisory only. The official pick and our published record do not change: the result is still graded against the line and price exactly as they were locked.
Gleyber Torres over 0.5 hits
DET · 2B
We project 1.3Recent average 1.3 over 10 gamesConfidence highLine DraftKings -208
Gleyber Torres has averaged 1.3 hits over 10 games this season, and the matchup is roughly neutral. The DraftKings line is 0.5 (-208), and our model projects 1.3 — 0.8 above the number, so the play is the over.
Still qualifies at the current line. Advisory only. The official pick and our published record do not change: the result is still graded against the line and price exactly as they were locked.
Brady House over 0.5 hits
WSH · 3B
We project 1.3Recent average 1.3 over 8 gamesConfidence highLine DraftKings -156
Brady House has averaged 1.3 hits over 8 games this season, and the matchup is roughly neutral. The DraftKings line is 0.5 (-156), and our model projects 1.3 — 0.8 above the number, so the play is the over.
Still qualifies at the current line. Advisory only. The official pick and our published record do not change: the result is still graded against the line and price exactly as they were locked.
Dylan Crews over 0.5 hits
WSH · RF
We project 1.1Recent average 1.1 over 9 gamesConfidence highLine DraftKings -173
Dylan Crews has averaged 1.1 hits over 9 games this season, and the matchup is roughly neutral. The DraftKings line is 0.5 (-173), and our model projects 1.1 — 0.6 above the number, so the play is the over.
Still qualifies at the current line. Advisory only. The official pick and our published record do not change: the result is still graded against the line and price exactly as they were locked.
Max Clark over 0.5 hits
DET · CF
We project 1Recent average 1 over 9 gamesConfidence highLine DraftKings -169
Max Clark has averaged 1 hits over 9 games this season, and the matchup is roughly neutral. The DraftKings line is 0.5 (-169), and our model projects 1 — 0.5 above the number, so the play is the over.
Still qualifies at the current line. Advisory only. The official pick and our published record do not change: the result is still graded against the line and price exactly as they were locked.