One Night Only: Game Previews for September 3rd

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.

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.