One Night Only: Game Previews for September 2nd
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Featured Game
Chicago Americans (2) at Detroit (2) | 19:05 ET
• After the AL West, the AL Central is actually the closest real playoff race, with 5.5 games separating division-leading Detroit and Chicago.
• Here’s another thing that separates Detroit and Chicago: socioeconomic indicators.
• Which, that’s a joke.
• But also, it’s not a joke.
• Just like all jokes, really.
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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 5.3.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Burres* | PIT | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | CHN | Ryan Dempster | 14:20 |
| John Danks | CHA | 7 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 10 | DET | Justin Verlander | 19:05 |
| R.A. Dickey | NYN | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | WAS | Ross Detwiler | 19:05 |
| Brandon Morrow | TOR | 10 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 5 | NYA | Ivan Nova | 19:05 |
| Zach Britton | BAL | 5 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 10 | TB | David Price | 19:10 |
| Roy Oswalt | PHI | 4 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 0 | FL | Brad Hand | 19:10 |
| Derek Holland | TEX | 7 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 2 | BOS | Andrew Miller | 19:10 |
| Chad Billingsley | LAN | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 9 | ATL | Brandon Beachy | 19:35 |
| Zack Greinke | MIL | 10 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 6 | HOU | Lucas Harrell* | 20:05 |
| Justin Masterson | CLE | 7 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 2 | KC | Bruce Chen | 20:10 |
| Johnny Cueto | CIN | 6 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 8 | STL | Chris Carpenter | 20:15 |
| Kevin Millwood | COL | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | SD | Aaron Harang | 22:05 |
| Carl Pavano | MIN | 4 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 2 | LAA | Tyler Chatwood | 22:05 |
| Jason Vargas | SEA | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | OAK | Guillermo Moscoso | 22:05 |
| Joe Saunders | AZ | 2 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 7 | SF | Matt Cain | 22:15 |
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.
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Is Brad Hand a zero, or does he just want you to think he is?
Start commenting under your real name, please, Lao Tzu.
It seems with his age he should be higher, but I guess nothing can salvage a high FIP/xFIP with low BABIP.