One Night Only: Game Previews for September 17th

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September 17, 2011


Hey, Strasnuts, wouldn’t it be hilarious if you walked someone someday?

Florida (7) at Washington (5) | 19:05 ET
Regarding a Thing the Author Has Done
Once again, the author has seen fit to assign a NERD score of greater than 10 to Mr. Stephen Strasburg for the purposes of giving Strasburg’s game the evening’s highest overall game score.

On What Authority the Author Did That
This authority, mostly:

On What Other Authority He Did It
That, especially with the Red Sox’ victory over the Rays last night, Strasburg’s start probably really does represent the most interesting game this evening.

Strasburg’s Numbers So Far
Strasburg has done this through his first two starts: 8.0 IP, 27.6% K, 0.0% BB, 33.3% GB, 2.14 SIERA, 2.26 xFIP, 59 xFIP-.

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A Brief Note on the Nationals Broadcast Team
From my brief experience of listening to him, I feel confident saying that colorman F.P. Santangelo is above average.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Nationals Television.

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
Henry Sosa HOU 5 4 3 3 3 CHN Rodrigo Lopez 13:05
Bartolo Colon NYA 7 10 7 6 9 TOR Henderson Alvarez 13:07
Jeanmar Gomez CLE 4 4 2 0 2 MIN Anthony Swarzak 13:10
Rick Porcello DET 6 2 4 1 6 OAK Gio Gonzalez 16:05
R.A. Dickey NYN 9 4 7 5 6 ATL Tim Hudson 16:10
Jeff Niemann TB 6 7 8 9 7 BOS Jon Lester 16:10
Ervin Santana LAA 6 5 8 2 5 BAL Zach Britton 19:05
Chris Volstad FL 7 7 7 5 10 WAS Stephen Strasburg* 19:05
Jake Westbrook STL 4 3 7 3 5 PHI Roy Oswalt 19:05
Zach Stewart CHA 7 2 6 10 7 KC Everett Teaford* 19:10
Yovani Gallardo MIL 8 8 6 5 6 CIN Edinson Volquez 19:10
Colby Lewis TEX 4 8 4 1 2 SEA Anthony Vasquez 19:10
Eric Surkamp* SF 6 3 7 6 8 COL Drew Pomeranz* 20:10
Josh Collmenter AZ 5 9 4 5 3 SD Wade LeBlanc 20:35
James McDonald PIT 4 5 4 4 5 LAN Ted Lilly 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.





 

Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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herve houchoua
14 years ago

update pNERD

SOSA / HOUSTON ASTROS

7 / 6 …………today ……5

huuuuuuuum…

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