One Night Only: Game Previews for September 1st

Jokes.

Featured Game
St. Louis (3) at Milwaukee (7) | 16:10 ET
• Cardinal prospect Brandon Dickson makes his first major-league start tonight, is one reason to watch this game.
• Note, please, that the author made finger quotes while using the word prospect with regard to Dickson — on account of he’s 26, is why.
• His numbers at Triple-A Memphis this season: 157.1 IP, 7.09 K/9, 1.83 BB/9, 1.26 HR/9.
• Expect him to be a control-oriented pitcher with ground-ball rates in the high-40s.
• Also expect Bob Uecker to pleasure your ears and mind on the Brewers radio feed (a.k.a. the other reason to watch this game).

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Brewers 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 5.4.

The following Game Scores include the new and improved playoff-odds adjustment, which you can learn about in your brain by clicking here.

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Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP	Home		Time
Gio Gonzalez	OAK	6	1	6	5	5	CLE	Fausto Carmona	12:05
Vance Worley	PHI	6	3	5	5	7	CIN	Mike Leake	12:35
Luis Perez*	TOR	6	6	4	2	6	BAL	Tommy Hunter	12:35
Danny Duffy	KC	6	10	7	2	8	DET	Jacob Turner*	13:05
Dana Eveland*	LAN	5	4	4	5	5	PIT	Brad Lincoln*	16:05
Brandon Dickson*	STL	10	3	8	7	8	MIL	Yovani Gallardo	16:10
Clay Hensley	FL	0	8	2	4	5	NYN	Miguel Batista*	19:10
A.J. Burnett	NYA	6	10	6	10	6	BOS	Jon Lester	19:10
Chien-Ming Wang	WAS	0	5	3	4	6	ATL	Tim Hudson	19:10
Jeff Niemann	TB	6	8	7	7	6	TEX	C.J. Wilson	20:05
Ervin Santana	LAA	6	5	7	0	3	SEA	Charlie Furbush	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.