One Night Only: Game Previews for September 4th
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Featured Game
Minnesota (6 0) at Los Angeles (5) | 15:35 ET
• On the one hand, there are definitely better pitching matchups tonight than Kevin Slowey at Joel Pineiro.
• Like Roy Halladay at Anibal Sanchez, for example.
• On the other, the Angels are the only team within five games of a prospective playoff spot.
• And on the other-other, no other game permits us to employ a Mike Trout Watch.
• Which, voila: 85 PA, .267/.341/.520, .259 BABIP, 138 wRC+, 1/1 SB, 0.7 WAR (including a line of .406/.500/.844, .360 BABIP, in 38 PA since his mid-August recall).
MLB.TV Audio Feed: Angels Radio (i.e. The Home of the Jimmy-Jack).
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 4.9.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brett Cecil | TOR | 4 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 10 | NYA | CC Sabathia | 13:05 |
| Roy Halladay | PHI | 10 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 9 | FL | Anibal Sanchez | 13:10 |
| Clayton Kershaw | LAN | 10 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | ATL | Randall Delgado* | 13:35 |
| Mike Pelfrey | NYN | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | WAS | Livan Hernandez | 13:35 |
| Matt Harrison | TEX | 5 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 4 | BOS | John Lackey | 13:35 |
| Jeremy Guthrie | BAL | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | TB | Jeremy Hellickson | 13:40 |
| Shaun Marcum | MIL | 5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 5 | HOU | Wandy Rodriguez | 14:05 |
| Jeanmar Gomez | CLE | 4 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 4 | KC | Jeff Francis | 14:10 |
| Bronson Arroyo | CIN | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 7 | STL | Edwin Jackson | 14:15 |
| Charlie Morton | PIT | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | CHN | Randy Wells | 14:20 |
| Kevin Slowey* | MIN | 5 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | LAA | Joel Pineiro | 15:35 |
| Daniel Hudson | AZ | 8 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | SF | Ryan Vogelsong | 16:05 |
| Aaron Cook | COL | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | SD | Mat Latos | 16:05 |
| Blake Beavan | SEA | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | OAK | Trevor Cahill | 16:05 |
| Mark Buehrle | CHA | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | DET | Max Scherzer | 20:05 |
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.
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update pNERD
COOK / COL
1 @ 2 @ 3
? win tonight vs Latos ?