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.

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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.