One Night Only: Game Previews for July 26th

Like every edition of One Night Only, this one is an experiment. Below, you will find tonight’s Featured Game, with some brief notes on same. Below that, you find the full schedule of tonight’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one.

Featured Game
Detroit (6) at Chicago Americans (6) | 20:10 ET
Neither of these teams rate well in terms of pure watchability. The White Sox have one of the better bullpen xFIPs in the league (3.49); as for the Tigers, they actually have one of the league’s better offenses (+37.0 weighted runs above average, good for sixth in the majors). That’s about it. Still, they’re division rivals, one (Detroit) in first place; the other, only 3.5 games back… Apropos that final point, it’s a fact: the White Sox were 11.0 games back on May 7th and had only a 5.0% chance (per Cool Standings) of making the postseason that day — a number that now stands at 20.6% (also per Cool Standings)… Justin Verlander (10) faces Jake Peavy (8). The latter has a 5.19 ERA but only 3.57 SIERA and 3.52 xFIP (89 xFIP-).

Also Playing
Here’s the complete schedule for all today’s games.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP	Home		Time
Jered Weaver	LAA	6	8	7	10	6	CLE	Josh Tomlin	19:05
Ricky Nolasco	FL	7	4	7	4	8	WAS	J. Zimmermann	19:05
Doug Fister	SEA	4	2	6	5	9	NYA	CC Sabathia	19:05
Tim Lincecum	SF	8	5	6	3	4	PHI	Vance Worley	19:05
Jake Arrieta	BAL	4	3	6	6	10	TOR	Brandon Morrow	19:07
Danny Duffy	KC	6	6	4	5	0	BOS	Andrew Miller	19:10
Jonathon Niese	NYN	8	5	7	8	5	CIN	Johnny Cueto	19:10
Jeff Karstens	PIT	5	7	7	6	9	ATL	Tommy Hanson	19:10
Carl Pavano	MIN	4	0	5	7	6	TEX	C.J. Wilson	20:05
Ryan Dempster	CHN	8	1	7	9	6	MIL	Chris Narveson	20:10
Justin Verlander	DET	10	6	8	6	8	CHA	Jake Peavy	20:10
Brett Myers	HOU	4	4	4	7	4	STL	Jake Westbrook	20:15
Joe Saunders	AZ	2	9	3	3	2	SD	Dustin Moseley	22:05
David Price	TB	10	4	7	1	7	OAK	Brandon McCarthy	22:05
Jhoulys Chacin	COL	6	4	7	3	10	LAN	Clayton Kershaw	20:10

NERD represents an attempt to anticipate the watchability of a game for the baseballing enthusiast.
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To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.
Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire.