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.