One Night Only: Game Previews for August 28th
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 |
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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It should say August 28th
Argh. You beat me to it.
Fixed.