One Night Only: Game Previews for September 17th

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-.

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.