One Night Only: Game Previews for September 28th

Look at all of these unemployed babies.

Boston (9) at Baltimore (2) | 19:05 ET
New York AL (10) at Tampa Bay (7) | 19:10 ET
Philadelphia (3) at Atlanta (5) | 19:10 ET
St. Louis (3) at Houston (4) | 20:05 ET
On Why There’re Four Games Here
Everyone, even tiny babies, knows why there are four games here: because each of these games includes a team tied, on the last day of the season, for the Wild Card in their respective league.

On How Such a Thing Happened
Everyone wrote to their senator and asked for it, probably.

On How Such a Thing Will End
Copious butt-slapping, win or lose.

On How All Those Tiny Babies Found Out
They probably have access to the internet or something, just like everybody else.

If I Had My Druthers
• Babies would stop having all this access to the internet.
• They (i.e. the babies) would go out and get a job like everybody else.
• You know, for the economy.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: All of the Channels, All of the Time.

Two Other Games
Colorado (6) at San Francisco (3) | 15:45 ET
Though his five-something ERA doesn’t show it, Drew Pomeranz (12.2 IP, 3.74 SIERA, 3.86 xFIP, 100 xFIP-), posting a 54.1% ground-ball rate so far.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Giants Radio.

Washington (5) at Florida (8) | 16:10 ET
Stephen Strasburg (18.0 IP, 2.86 SIERA, 2.79 xFIP, 72 xFIP-) his fifth and final start of an abbreviated 2011 season.

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 5.5.

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
Edinson Volquez	CIN	7	5	4	3	3	NYN	Miguel Batista*	13:10
Brandon Morrow	TOR	10	6	6	2	5	CHA	Philip Humber	14:10
Drew Pomeranz*	COL	8	6	3	3	0	SF	Eric Surkamp	15:45
Stephen Strasburg*	WAS	10	5	7	8	7	FL	Chris Volstad	16:10
Jon Lester	BOS	6	9	7	2	6	BAL	Alfredo Simon	19:05
Zach McAllister*	CLE	6	4	5	3	6	DET	Rick Porcello	19:05
Undecided	NYA	5	10	10	7	9	TB	David Price	19:10
Joe Blanton	PHI	9	3	9	5	6	ATL	Tim Hudson	19:10
Chris Carpenter	STL	8	3	8	4	6	HOU	Brett Myers	20:05
Matt Harrison	TEX	6	9	6	5	7	LAA	Garrett Richards*	20:05
Bruce Chen	KC	2	10	3	0	4	MIN	Carl Pavano	20:10
Jeff Locke*	PIT	5	5	6	8	10	MIL	Zack Greinke	20:10
Ryan Dempster	CHN	6	3	4	6	4	SD	Wade LeBlanc	20:35
Ted Lilly	LAN	5	4	3	8	2	AZ	Joe Saunders	21:40
Gio Gonzalez	OAK	6	1	2	0	1	SEA	Anthony Vasquez	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.