Washington is fighting among themselves and started the second half with a home loss to Atlanta who is one of the teams ahead of them for the division in the NL East. Atlanta won 8-5 to improve to 53-42. Washington falls under .500 at 48-49 and 22-25 at home. For Saturday Atlanta has Sean Newcomb on the mound who is 8-5 on the season and pitching to a 3.51 ERA. On the road Newcomb is 5-3 with a 3.79 ERA and is 6-2 in night games with a 2.48 ERA. Washington is turning to Gio Gonzalez to get back to winning, but Gonzalez is just 6-6 on the season with a with a 3.72 ERA and is 3-2 at home with a 3.09 ERA. In July Gonzalez is 0-1 with a 3.94 ERA in three starts and in one start against Atlanta has a 3.86 ERA. In his career Gio Gonzalez is 5-11 in 22 starts with an ERA over five. Look for Washington's and Gonzalez's woes to continue against the Braves as Atlanta rides Newcomb to a 6-3 victory. Play Atlanta

Madison Bumgarner is coming off a win over Oakland where he threw six innings of one run ball with five strikeouts. That win gave Bumgarner his third win of the year and second straight start with a victory. Bumgarner is 0-2 with a 4.67 ERA in three starts and 2-3 in night games with a 2.44 ERA. Bumgarner is 4-2 in six career starts against Oakland with a 4.62 ERA and in Oakland is 2-2 in four starts with a 6.23 ERA. Oakland is throwing Trevor Cahill who is sporting a 3.10 ERA, but is just 1-2 on the season in nine starts. Cahill has faced San Francisco 18 times in career including 15 starts and is 7-5 with a 3.97 ERA. Last night's game finished up 5-1 in San Francisco's favor and this one will be a little more high scoring as the Giants win a bit of a shootout 7-5 to take the first two games of the series. Play San Francisco