The Chicago Cubs and the Washington Nationals will open their NLDS at Nationals Park Friday night. I like the price we get on the Cubs here with Kyle Hendricks on the mound.

Hendricks (7-5, 3.03 ERA) was 1-1 with a 2.01 ERA in five starts during September and he's 3-2 with a 2.83 ERA in 11 starts on the road for the season. He has the current Nats roster limited to a .217 batting average through 92 at bats. Note that Hendricks is 1-1 with a 2.38 ERA and 30 strikeouts in his postseason career.

The Nats turn to Stephen Strasburg (15-4, 2.52 ERA) who was 4-0 behind an outstanding 0.83 ERA in September to make it two sub 1.00 ERA months in a row. The current Cubs are batting a combined .257 over 113 at bats against him.

The Nats are just 1-5 in their last six Divisional Playoff home games, and they seem to come up short in the playoffs time and time again, no matter how good they look during the regular season. Let's back the reigning World Series champions at a great price.

My selection is a 10* play on Chicago Cubs.