One Night Only: Game Previews for September 24th

A Red Sox fan asks the big questions.

Boston (9) at New York AL (10) | 16:10 ET
Regarding Something Bill James Said
Bill James has said — somewhere, at some point in time — something to the effect of “We’re frequently interested in things that other people find interesting.”

An Example of What James Means by That
Murder cases — like how people like murder cases.

On the Relevance of That Statement to This Game
Despite the fact that, as of this morning, the Red Sox have something like a 95% chance of making the playoffs, a great portion of New Englanders are wringing their hands anxiously regarding the Sox and their fate.

An Example of Said Handwringing
A Boston Globe photo slideshow entitled “Who’s to Blame?”

Another Example of That Handwringing
This video debate over whether the Sox are dirty and doggy enough.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Red Sox Television.

Two Other Games
Kansas City (10) at Chicago AL (2) | 19:10 ET
Everett Teaford! Brent Morel! All the little Royals!

MLB.TV Audio Feed: White Sox Television.

Toronto (6) at Tampa Bay (7) | 19:10 ET
The Rays aren’t entirely eliminated.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Blue Jays Radio or Rays 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 4.9.

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
Brandon Beachy	ATL	10	5	7	5	2	WAS	Chien-Ming Wang	13:05
Brian Duensing	MIN	5	0	2	5	1	CLE	David Huff	13:05
Rodrigo Lopez	CHN	3	4	7	3	4	STL	Kyle Lohse	13:10
Cole Hamels	PHI	9	3	7	3	9	NYN	R.A. Dickey	13:10
Jon Lester	BOS	6	9	6	10	3	NYA	Freddy Garcia	16:10
Felix Hernandez	SEA	9	0	6	9	6	TEX	Alexi Ogando	16:10
Jeremy Guthrie	BAL	3	2	5	2	10	DET	Justin Verlander	19:05
Travis Wood	CIN	3	5	4	5	7	PIT	Brad Lincoln	19:05
Jason Hammel	COL	2	6	2	4	2	HOU	J.A. Happ	19:05
Scott Diamond	MIN	3	0	2	5	3	CLE	Mitch Talbot	19:05
Alex Sanabia*	FL	6	8	7	8	10	MIL	Zack Greinke	19:10
Everett Teaford*	KC	7	10	6	2	7	CHA	John Danks	19:10
Joe Blanton	PHI	8	3	4	3	3	NYN	Dillon Gee	19:10
Ricky Romero	TOR	6	6	8	7	6	TB	Jeff Niemann	19:10
Eric Surkamp	SF	0	3	3	9	7	AZ	Ian Kennedy	20:10
Chad Billingsley	LAN	4	5	4	6	4	SD	Aaron Harang	20:35
Guillermo Moscoso	OAK	1	1	3	5	6	LAA	Jerome Williams	21:05

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.