One Night Only: Game Previews for August 25th


Neither the author, nor this doctor in post-apocalyptic London, know precisely what to tell you.

Featured Game
Red Sox (10) at Texas (8) | 20:05 ET
• Each of today’s three most highly rated games comes with a caveat.
• For example: if you watch Braves-Cubs, you have to watch the Cubs.
• And also: if you watch Diamondbacks-Nationals, you have to watch John Lannan pitch.
• Continuing on: if you watch Astros-Giants, you have to watch the Giant offense.
• Honestly, I’ll probably watch Red Sox-Rangers — on account of Ian Kinsler and Jacoby Ellsbury and and the AL West race and some other reasons.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Anything But Rangers Television.

Also Playing
Here’s the complete schedule for all of today’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire. The average NERD Game Score for today is 5.0.

The following Game Scores include the new and improved playoff-odds adjustment, which you can learn about in your brain by clicking here.

Away SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP Home Time
Rich Harden OAK 6 1 3 10 2 NYA Phil Hughes 13:05
Jo-Jo Reyes BAL 3 2 1 0 3 MIN Francisco Liriano 13:10
Doug Fister DET 5 2 5 7 4 TB Jeremy Hellickson 13:10
Brandon Beachy ATL 9 4 7 3 10 CHN Matt Garza 14:20
Wade Miley* AZ 8 9 7 4 3 WAS John Lannan 19:05
Jeff Francis KC 4 10 4 6 4 TOR Brett Cecil 19:07
Andrew Miller BOS 1 10 6 8 7 TEX Alexi Ogando 20:05
Charlie Morton PIT 4 5 5 3 8 STL Edwin Jackson 20:15
Henry Sosa* HOU 6 3 7 3 4 SF Ryan Vogelsong 22:15

NERD represents an attempt to anticipate the watchability of a game for the baseballing enthusiast.
To learn more about Pitcher NERD, click here and scroll down a little.
To learn more about latest Team NERD, click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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herve houchoua
12 years ago

evolution ( update ) pNERD for this day
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W MILEY / ARI / 10* @ 8 *

MORTON / PIT / 5 @ 4

VOGELSONG / SFG / 5 @ 4

LIRIANO / MIN / 5 @ 4 @ 3

LANNAN / WASH / 4 @ 3

HUGUES / NYY / 3 @ 2