One Night Only: Game Previews for September 3rd

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September 3, 2011


This presents almost no problem for Washington debutant Tim Milone.

Featured Games
New York Nationals (4) at Washington (5) | 19:05 ET
• Watch as left-hander Tom Milone, 24, makes his major-league debut for Washington.
• That is, the Tom Milone who did this at Triple-A Syracuse this year: 148.1 IP, 9.40 K/9, 0.97 BB/9, 0.55 HR/9, 2.24 FIP.
• And, coincidentally, the Tom Milone who throws in the high-80s.
• Miles per Hour, that is.
• Why, what were you thinking?

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Mets Television.

Arizona (9) at San Francisco (3) | 21:05 ET
• This mostly isn’t a playoff race anymore, what with the D-backs up by five games.
• On the other hand, Tim Lincecum will be pitching his changepiece a whole bunch of times.
• And they’re playing each other, too.
• Which is different than playing with each other, I’ll submit.
• Which is to say, prepositions are important.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Giants 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 5.7.

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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
Ross Ohlendorf* PIT 5 5 3 4 2 CHN Casey Coleman 13:05
Ricky Romero TOR 6 6 5 10 6 NYA Bartolo Colon 13:05
Michael Pineda SEA 10 0 6 1 8 OAK Brandon McCarthy 16:05
Gavin Floyd CHA 6 2 6 2 1 DET Brad Penny 16:10
Homer Bailey CIN 7 5 7 3 8 STL Jaime Garcia 16:10
Colby Lewis TEX 4 8 6 10 6 BOS Erik Bedard 16:10
Alfredo Simon BAL 5 2 2 7 1 TB Wade Davis 18:10
Chris Narveson MIL 6 7 5 4 7 HOU Bud Norris 19:05
Dillon Gee NYN 3 4 5 5 10 WAS Tom Milone* 19:05
David Huff CLE 2 5 6 10 5 KC Luke Hochevar 19:10
Nathan Eovaldi LAN 6 4 6 4 9 ATL Mike Minor 19:10
Cole Hamels PHI 10 4 7 8 7 FL Ricky Nolasco 19:10
Alex White COL 3 5 5 6 9 SD Cory Luebke 20:35
Ian Kennedy AZ 7 9 10 3 8 SF Tim Lincecum 21:05
Brian Duensing MIN 5 0 6 5 5 LAA Jered Weaver 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.





 

Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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herve houchoua
14 years ago

WAOUHHHH

Pnerd ( update)

MC CARTHY / OAK

6 @ 7 , today @ 8

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