One Night Only: Game Previews for August 26th

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Featured Game
Los Angeles Americans (5) at Texas (7) | 20:05 ET
• A lot of people don’t know that, when he wrote the first draft of his “Drugs sell themselves” joke, Chris Rock actually first used “Friday night’s Angels-Rangers game” instead.
• He was like, “Angels-Rangers sells itself.”
• “It’s not an encyclopedia. It’s not an effing vacuum cleaner.”
• “You don’t really gotta try to sell Angels-Rangers,” etc.
• I mean, why would I lie about this?

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Rangers Radio.

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 5.1.

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
Clay Hensley	FL	1	8	3	3	5	PHI	Roy Oswalt	19:05
Felipe Paulino	KC	7	10	7	6	7	CLE	Ubaldo Jimenez	19:05
A.J. Burnett	NYA	6	10	5	2	5	BAL	Tommy Hunter	19:05
James Shields	TB	8	7	7	7	7	TOR	Henderson Alvarez*	19:07
Tim Hudson	ATL	6	4	5	5	6	NYN	Chris Capuano	19:10
Gio Gonzalez	OAK	6	0	6	10	8	BOS	Tim Wakefield	19:10
Chien-Ming Wang	WAS	1	4	3	5	6	CIN	Dontrelle Willis	19:10
Dan Haren	LAA	8	5	10	7	7	TEX	Derek Holland	20:05
Rodrigo Lopez	CHN	3	4	2	7	2	MIL	Randy Wolf	20:10
Rick Porcello	DET	6	2	4	0	5	MIN	Scott Diamond*	20:10
James McDonald	PIT	3	5	3	3	4	STL	Jake Westbrook	20:15
Wade LeBlanc	SD	2	6	5	9	5	AZ	Josh Collmenter	21:40
Jake Peavy	CHA	8	2	5	0	3	SEA	Charlie Furbush	22:10
Esmil Rogers	COL	5	6	4	4	5	LAN	Ted Lilly	22:10
J.A. Happ	HOU	2	3	8	3	10	SF	Mad. Bum.	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.