One Night Only: Game Previews for August 30th
This Angels fan is like, ¿Dónde está Mike Trout?
Featured Game
Los Angeles Americans (6) at Seattle (0) | 22:10 ET
• The attentive reader will note that, somehow, Jerome Williams is responsible for what is
• Williams, since his return to the majors: 9.1 IP, 20.0% K, 0.0% BB, 31.3% GB, 2.98 SIERA, 3.01 xFIP, 75 xFIP-.
• He also has, inexplicably, an 18.8% swinging-strike rate. (League-average is somewhere around 8-9%, depending on role.)
• In other news, Mike Trout hasn’t started either of the last two games, despite looking very good since his recall.
• Here’s the average Halos Heaven comment on the matter: “Argh.”
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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 5.1.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Francis | KC | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 5 | DET | Doug Fister | 19:05 |
| Trevor Cahill | OAK | 5 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | CLE | Jeanmar Gomez | 19:05 |
| Brett Cecil | TOR | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | BAL | Jeremy Guthrie | 19:05 |
| Javier Vazquez | FL | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | NYN | Mike Pelfrey | 19:10 |
| CC Sabathia | NYA | 10 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 4 | BOS | John Lackey | 19:10 |
| Roy Halladay | PHI | 10 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | CIN | Bronson Arroyo | 19:10 |
| Livan Hernandez | WAS | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | ATL | Jair Jurrjens | 19:10 |
| Charlie Morton | PIT | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | HOU | Henry Sosa | 20:05 |
| Jeremy Hellickson | TB | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 6 | TEX | Scott Feldman* | 20:05 |
| Anthony Swarzak | MIN | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 6 | CHA | Zach Stewart | 20:10 |
| Edwin Jackson | STL | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | MIL | Shaun Marcum | 20:10 |
| Aaron Cook | COL | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 7 | AZ | Wade Miley* | 21:40 |
| Jerome Williams* | LAA | 6 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 6 | SEA | Anthony Vasquez* | 22:10 |
| Tim Stauffer | SD | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 7 | LAN | Hiroki Kuroda | 22:10 |
| Matt Garza | CHN | 10 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | SF | Ryan Vogelsong | 22:15 |
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.
I think a NERD scores of 4 and 2 flatter Cecil and Guthrie respectively. That pitching matchup is nearly zero-worthy to me.
Drew, I want nothing more to please you. Just say the word and I will blow NERD up.
If you blow NERD up, would you walk away without even looking at the explosion?
So true. A sub-zero score would be required if not for the highly excitable mass of matter that is Brett Lawrie.