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.