NERD Game Scores for Sunday, September 13, 2015

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September 13, 2015

Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by viscount of the internet Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a scale of 0-10) the likely aesthetic appeal or watchability, for the learned fan, of a player or team or game. Read more about the components of and formulae for NERD scores here.

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Most Highly Rated Game
Houston at Los Angeles AL | 15:35 ET
Fiers (155.0 IP, 103 xFIP-) vs. Heaney (84.1 IP, 105 xFIP-)
This game represents an opportunity not only to survey, in Houston, a club currently involved in the league’s tightest divisional race — not only that, but also the first occasion on which to observe Angels left-hander Andrew Heaney since he became the first major leaguer to offer publicly a chance to invest in his success. Following an agreement with Fantex, Heaney will receive “$3.34 million in exchange for 10 percent of all future earnings,” according to Ken Rosenthal. Whether the same opportunity will be made available for major-league webloggers, the company remains not so much quiet as they don’t ever return your phone calls even though you left probably seven or ten messages on their voicemail last week and sent several emails with the word “Urgent” in the subject.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Houston Television.

Another Brief Note
Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Detroit at Cleveland, starts at 13:10 ET, and can be accessed by means of this hyperlinked text.

Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete and very sortable table for all of today’s games. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and also the rest of the internet. Note that the calculations both for team and game NERD scores have changed recently to better integrate playoff odds into same. Read more about those adjustments here and here.

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Away   SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP   Home Time
R.A. Dickey TOR 8 6 7 6 8 NYA Masahiro Tanaka 13:05
Rich Hill* BOS 8 4 5 4 8 TB Drew Smyly 13:10
Justin Verlander DET 4 4 5 5 5 CLE Trevor Bauer 13:10
Randy Wolf DET 3 4 5 5 10 CLE Carlos Carrasco TBD
Michael Wacha STL 8 8 7 4 10 CIN Raisel Iglesias 13:10
Max Scherzer WAS 10 4 5 4 4 MIA Brad Hand 13:10
Dan Haren CHN 3 5 4 3 2 PHI Aaron Harang 13:35
Taylor Jungmann MIL 4 4 6 8 8 PIT Francisco Liriano 13:35
Jon Niese NYN 5 4 4 4 6 ATL Ryan Weber* 13:35
Kyle Gibson MIN 4 7 6 4 10 CHA Chris Sale 14:10
Felix Doubront OAK 4 4 6 9 3 TEX Alex Gonzalez 15:05
Mike Fiers HOU 3 10 7 6 5 LAA Andrew Heaney 15:35
Od. Despaigne SD 4 4 4 4 6 SF Mike Leake 16:05
Kyle Kendrick COL 0 4 4 4 5 SEA James Paxton 16:10
Zack Greinke LAN 7 4 5 4 8 AZ Patrick Corbin 16:10
Johnny Cueto KC 7 4 5 4 5 BAL Wei-Yin Chen 20:05

* = Fewer than 10 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.





 

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