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.”

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Mariners 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 5.1.

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.