One Night Only: Game Previews for September 19th

Only one budget travel author can help the Cardinals now.

St. Louis (3) at Philadelphia (3) | 19:05 ET
A Thing the Author Didn’t Know
A thing the author didn’t know is how the Cardinals have played their way into Wild Card contention.

Regarding Said Contention
After their defeat Sunday night of Philadelphia — and Atlanta’s loss to the Mets — St. Louis is three games behind Atlanta in the NL Wild Card race, giving them an 8.1% chance of winning same Wild Card berth.

Regarding Said Contention, Part II
The Cardinals’ current chances at the Wild Card are the highest they’ve been since August 17th.

If Rick Steves Wrote a Book for the Cardinals
If noted travel author Rick Steves wrote a book to help the Cardinals, it’d be called Major League Playoffs Through the Back Door.

If an Adult-Film Actress Wrote a Book for the Cardinals
If an adult-film actress wrote a book to help the Cardinals, it’d have a title pretty similar to Rick Steves’ book.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Phillies Radio.

Two Other Games
Los Angeles AL (5) at Toronto (6) | 19:07 ET
In which Jerome Williams is a selling point.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Blue Jays Radio.

Atlanta (5) at Florida (7) | 19:10 ET
In which the Braves attempt not to soil themselves.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Braves Radio.

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 5.0.

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
Jeremy Guthrie	BAL	3	2	5	9	6	BOS	Kyle Weiland*	13:05
Scott Diamond	MIN	5	0	4	10	6	NYA	A.J. Burnett	13:05
Charlie Furbush	SEA	4	0	1	4	1	CLE	David Huff	16:05
Kyle Lohse	STL	3	3	8	3	10	PHI	Roy Halladay	19:05
Jerome Williams	LAA	7	5	7	6	6	TOR	Ricky Romero	19:07
Mike Minor	ATL	8	5	8	7	7	FL	Ricky Nolasco	19:10
Brian Matusz	BAL	2	2	4	9	3	BOS	John Lackey	19:10
J.A. Happ	HOU	2	4	3	5	5	CIN	Dontrelle Willis	19:10
Chris Narveson	MIL	5	8	4	4	4	CHN	Casey Coleman	20:05
Cory Luebke	SD	10	5	6	6	6	COL	Kevin Millwood	20:40
Charlie Morton	PIT	4	4	5	9	7	AZ	Ian Kennedy	21:40

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.