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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SC2GG
12 years ago

Man, what happened to The Morning After?
I was really excited to see Brian Tallet’s WPA of -0.799.