One Night Only: Game Previews for September 2nd

What’s the over/under on the chance that this statement’s accurate?

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.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: White Sox Television, on the loudest possible volume.

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.

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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.