One Night Only: Game Previews for August 27th
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Featured Game
Los Angeles Americans (5) at Texas (7) | 20:05 ET
• AL West Watch: after last night’s game between the two teams (an 11-7 Ranger win), the Angels are 3.0 games behind the Rangers in the AL West.
• Playoff Odds Watch: per Cool Standings, the Angels’ and Rangers’ postseason odds are at 79.6% and 21.2%, respectively.
• Mike Trout Watch: (since his recent promotion) 16 PA, 2 K, 1 BB, 1 HR.
• Hurricane Watch: hurricane-y?
• Author Watch: generally vertical.
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 5.9.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guillermo Moscoso | OAK | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 6 | BOS | Jon Lester | Noon |
| Anibal Sanchez | FL | 9 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 10 | PHI | Roy Halladay | 13:05 |
| Jeff Niemann | TB | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | TOR | Luis Perez* | 13:07 |
| Kevin Millwood | COL | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | LAN | Chad Billingsley | 16:10 |
| Justin Verlander | DET | 10 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | MIN | Carl Pavano | 16:10 |
| Brad Lincoln | PIT | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | STL | Chris Carpenter | 16:10 |
| Graham Godfrey* | OAK | 5 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 7 | BOS | Erik Bedard | 17:00 |
| Danny Duffy | KC | 5 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 5 | CLE | Fausto Carmona | 19:05 |
| Ryan Dempster | CHN | 7 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | MIL | Yovani Gallardo | 19:10 |
| Ross Detwiler | WAS | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 7 | CIN | Mike Leake | 19:10 |
| Ervin Santana | LAA | 7 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 6 | TEX | C.J. Wilson | 20:05 |
| Aaron Harang | SD | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 2 | AZ | Joe Saunders | 20:10 |
| Brett Myers | HOU | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 5 | SF | Dan Runzler* | 21:05 |
| John Danks | CHA | 7 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 10 | SEA | Michael Pineda | 22:10 |
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.
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A’s @0 and Moscosso @ 0 …. here’s to hoping Moneyball is at least more watchable