The Giants have lost three starting pitchers to elbow surgery this season. Not dealt with soft-tossed innings limits, not shuffled to the bullpen. Gone, under the knife, done. That is the rotation San Francisco is bringing into Atlanta to face the Braves, and somehow the season keeps going anyway.
This is the part of a long year where a team finds out what it actually is. San Francisco has been forced to answer questions no front office wants to answer three times over: who starts Tuesday when your Tuesday guy is already scheduled for a follow-up MRI. Atlanta doesn't care about any of that. They show up, they see who's on the mound, and they play the game in front of them.
So here's the moneyline, stripped of everything except the two teams and the score at the end. A M*A*S*H unit on the road against a Braves club playing at home. San Francisco or Atlanta. Pick the winner.