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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 17th


Guess the amount of percent that Roy Oswalt is planning to give this evening.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Chicago (NL) at Cincinnati, Philadelphia at St. Louis, and San Diego at Arizona.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games (using the highly experimental and dangerous pitcher-heavy method discussed recently).

3. Plops.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 16th


Play-by-play announcer Sean McDonough was an original member of NKOTB.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: New York (AL) at Tampa Bay, Cliff Lee at St. Louis, and the world-beating Cleveland Indians at the world-beating Kansas City Royals.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games (using the experimental pitcher-heavy method discussed last time).

3. All of the synonyms for amazing.

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One Night Only: Previews for Weekend of May 13th


Josh Collmenter, sans excellent mustache, makes his first major-league start on Saturday.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for five! five! five! weekend games — likely including your favorite team!

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of this weekend’s games.

3. A programming note, as follows:

As a sort of experiment, I’ve weighted the NERD score for each game’s probable starters three times as much as the corresponding team score when calculating the NERD Game Scores for this weekend’s games. Accordingly, for each game, you’ll see the new, pitcher-heavy Game Score in the normal place and then, in the right-most column, on top, what the score would usually be and then, just below that, the difference between the pitcher-heavy and usual-type of score.

Like so:

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 12th


Justin Masterson, James Shields, and Bud Norris enjoy a boating holiday.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for two games: Tampa Bay at Cleveland and Arizona at San Francisco.

2. Brief, but still entirely illuminating, comments on three more games: Los Angeles (NL) at Pittsburgh, Washington at Atlanta, and St. Louis at Chicago (NL).

3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 11th


You’ll have to go through Tyler Chatwood to see Peavy’s debut tonight.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, Jake Peavy’s Debut™, Philadelphia at Florida Marlins.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

3. All manner of garment-rending.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 10th


An accurate portrait of life at FanGraphs Headquarters.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, Halladay at Johnson, and Arizona at San Francisco.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

3. All the dreams of all the beautiful children.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 9th


Zack Greinke prepares for tonight’s pregame interview. (He’s a nerd, is the joke.)

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for two games: San Diego at Milwaukee and Detroit at Toronto.

2. Shorter, but no less charming, previews for three more games: Minnesota at Boston, Oakland at Texas, and Chicago AL at Los Angeles AL.

3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

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One Night Only: Previews for Weekend of May 6th


A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Baseball Man

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Hot, bullet-pointed previews for seven games — probably including your favorite team!

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of this weekend’s games.

3. Tons of frigging whimsy.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 5th

It’s backwards and hilarious.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Florida at St. Louis, Cleveland at Oakland, and Colorado at Arizona.

2. Shorter, but no less charming, previews for three more games: Houston at Cincinnati, New York (AL) at Detroit, and Milwaukee at Atlanta.

3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

4. More bullet points than meet the eye.

5. More other things than meet the eye, too.

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One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 4th


Phil Collins is uncommonly excited for Zack Greinke’s Brewer debut.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Milwaukee at Atlanta, Cleveland at Oakland, and Colorado at Arizona.

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

3. Entirely relevant and timely pop-culture references.

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