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.

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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.