One Night Only: Game Previews for August 28th

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August 28, 2011


Like Paul Scheer on that one episode of Parks and Rec, the Angels KaBoom-ed It last night.

Featured Game
Los Angeles Americans (6) at Texas (7) | 20:09 ET
• After last night’s Angel victory — which included five Angel home runs — these two teams are separated by just two games in the AL West.
• Per Cool Standings, the Angels’ and Rangers’ odds of making the postseason are 29.7% and 71.0%, respectively.
• Notable thing: of all the players from last night’s game, Ranger (and former Angel) Mike Napoli actually had the highest WPA, at .137.
• He did also have an error and passed ball, too.
• Finally, Mike Trout Watch. Last night: 5 PA, 0 K, 0 BB, 1 HR. Since re-recall: 20 PA, 2 K, 1 BB, 2 HR.

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 5.4.

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
Bruce Chen KC 2 10 5 6 7 CLE Justin Masterson 13:05
David Price TB 9 7 8 6 10 TOR Brandon Morrow 13:07
Jordan Zimmermann WAS 7 5 5 5 5 CIN Johnny Cueto 13:10
Bartolo Colon NYA 7 10 5 2 5 BAL Zach Britton 13:35
Casey Coleman CHN 1 3 4 7 10 MIL Zack Greinke 14:10
Brad Penny DET 1 2 2 0 5 MIN Brian Duensing 14:10
Jeff Karstens PIT 5 5 3 3 3 STL Kyle Lohse 14:15
Bud Norris HOU 7 3 9 3 7 SF Matt Cain 16:05
Gavin Floyd CHA 6 2 4 0 3 SEA Jason Vargas 16:10
Jhoulys Chacin COL 5 6 4 4 5 LAN Nathan Eovaldi 16:10
Cory Luebke SD 10 6 8 9 6 AZ Ian Kennedy 16:10
Ivan Nova NYA 5 10 3 2 2 BAL Brian Matusz 19:35
Jered Weaver LAA 6 6 10 7 4 TEX Colby Lewis 20:09

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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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Jesse
14 years ago

It should say August 28th

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Carson CistulliMember
14 years ago
Reply to  Jesse

Argh. You beat me to it.

Fixed.

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