One Night Only: Game Previews for September 12th

Juliet isn’t totally stoked about today’s slate of games.

Los Angeles Americans (5) at Oakland (1) | 22:05 ET
A Jeopardy Answer for Today’s Game
Jai Miller, Anthony Recker, and Michael Taylor.

A Relevant Jeopardy Question, Option No. 1
Who are three players with fewer than 100 career plate appearances combined?

A Relevant Jeopardy Question, Option No. 2
Who are three players who started for Oakland on Sunday?

Regarding Those Players, Their Triple-A Stats This Year
Miller: 475 PA, .276/.368/.588 (.401 BABIP), 11.4% BB, 37.7% K.
Recker: 412 PA, .287/.388/.501 (.328 BABIP), 13.6% BB, 19.7% K.
Taylor: 400 PA, .272/.360/.456 (.310 BABIP), 11.5% BB, 20.0% K.

Regarding Jai Miller, His Strikeout Rate
I’m no expert, but I’ll suggest he consider low-ifying it.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Ladies Choice.

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 5.3.

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
Kyle Lohse	STL	3	3	6	5	6	PIT	Brad Lincoln	19:05
Jeff Niemann	TB	6	7	7	2	5	BAL	Zach Britton	19:05
Rodrigo Lopez	CHN	2	4	3	5	5	CIN	Dontrelle Willis	19:10
Chris Volstad	FL	7	8	7	4	9	ATL	Brandon Beachy	19:10
Ross Detwiler	WAS	5	6	6	4	9	NYN	R.A. Dickey	19:10
Roy Oswalt	PHI	5	3	4	4	6	HOU	Brett Myers	20:05
Rick Porcello	DET	6	2	5	2	7	CHA	John Danks	20:10
Joel Pineiro	LAA	2	5	7	1	6	OAK	Gio Gonzalez	22:05
Joe Saunders	AZ	2	9	3	4	5	LAN	Ted Lilly	22:10
Phil Hughes	NYA	4	10	5	0	9	SEA	Felix Hernandez	22:10
Aaron Harang	SD	4	6	5	3	7	SF	Eric Surkamp*	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.