One Night Only: Game Previews for August 31st
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Featured Game
Los Angeles Americans (5) at Seattle (0) | 22:10 ET
• The Angels’ playoff run remains interesting enough to render the Mariners watchable.
• In case you missed it, Mike Trout did disgusting things to the baseball last night.
• He also hit two home runs.
• (Wocka. Wocka.)
• Starters: Dan Haren (194.2 IP, 20.4% K, 3.5% BB, 43.1% GB, 81 xFIP-) at Felix Hernandez (200.1 IP, 23.7% K, 7.5% BB, 48.0% GB, 79 xFIP-).
MLB.TV Audio Feed: Mariners Radio, I guess. (Anyone have thoughts on Angels Radio? I’m not familiar with it.)
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 5.6.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Felipe Paulino | KC | 7 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 6 | DET | Rick Porcello | 13:05 |
| Scott Diamond* | MIN | 5 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 8 | CHA | Jake Peavy | 14:10 |
| Wade LeBlanc | SD | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | LAN | Ted Lilly | 15:10 |
| Rodrigo Lopez | CHN | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 10 | SF | Mad. Bum. | 15:45 |
| Rich Harden | OAK | 7 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 8 | CLE | Ubaldo Jimenez | 19:05 |
| Hend. Alvarez | TOR | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | BAL | Jo-Jo Reyes | 19:05 |
| Chris Volstad | FL | 8 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 7 | NYN | Chris Capuano | 19:10 |
| Phil Hughes | NYA | 4 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 7 | BOS | Josh Beckett | 19:10 |
| Cliff Lee | PHI | 10 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | CIN | Dontrelle Willis | 19:10 |
| John Lannan | WAS | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | ATL | Derek Lowe | 19:10 |
| James McDonald | PIT | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | HOU | J.A. Happ | 20:05 |
| James Shields | TB | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | TEX | Alexi Ogando | 20:05 |
| Jake Westbrook | STL | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | MIL | Randy Wolf | 20:10 |
| Esmil Rogers | COL | 5 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 5 | AZ | Josh Collmenter | 21:40 |
| Dan Haren | LAA | 8 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 9 | SEA | Felix Hernandez | 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.
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Man, what happened to The Morning After?
I was really excited to see Brian Tallet’s WPA of -0.799.