One Night Only: Game Previews for September 5th
Quite to the contrary, reader: he barely even knew her.
Featured Game
Detroit (2) at Cleveland (5) | 13:05 ET
• I don’t know the precise word for what the Tigers did to the White Sox on Sunday, but you probably shouldn’t say it in front of your mother.
• Other people’s mothers — that’s no problem.
• The Indians, for their part, managed to beat the Royals while deploying an outfield of Jerad Head, Ezequiel Carrera, and Kosuke Fukudome.
• You probably shouldn’t say at least two of those names in front of your mother, either.
• And probably don’t say the names of either of today’s starters — Doug Fister and Ubaldo Jimenez — in front of your mother, thirdly.
MLB.TV Audio Feed: Tigers Television, if you must.
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 5.4.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Matusz | BAL | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 3 | NYA | Freddy Garcia | 13:05 |
| Doug Fister | DET | 5 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | CLE | Ubaldo Jimenez | 13:05 |
| Hiroki Kuroda | LAN | 6 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | WAS | John Lannan | 13:05 |
| Josh Beckett | BOS | 7 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 8 | TOR | Henderson Alvarez | 13:07 |
| Scott Feldman* | TEX | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 9 | TB | James Shields | 13:10 |
| Henry Sosa | HOU | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | PIT | James McDonald | 13:35 |
| Philip Humber | CHA | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | MIN | Anthony Swarzak | 14:10 |
| Dontrelle Willis | CIN | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 10 | CHN | Matt Garza | 14:20 |
| Wade Miley* | AZ | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | COL | Esmil Rogers | 15:10 |
| Felipe Paulino | KC | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 7 | OAK | Rich Harden | 16:05 |
| Mad. Bum. | SF | 10 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | SD | Tim Stauffer | 16:05 |
| Randy Wolf | MIL | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | STL | Jake Westbrook | 16:15 |
| Derek Lowe | ATL | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 10 | PHI | Cliff Lee | 19:05 |
| Chris Capuano | NYN | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | FL | Javier Vazquez | 19:10 |
| Zach Stewart | CHA | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 5 | MIN | Scott Diamond* | 20:10 |
| Anthony Vasquez* | SEA | 5 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 8 | LAA | Dan Haren | 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.
What the Tigers did to the White Sox yesterday was, after laughing at their post season dreams on Friday and kicking them in the gut on Saturday, throwing a party reminding me of something I already knew.
Namely that the check I had to mail in a few weeks ago while putatively to “reserve postseason seats” was, in actuality, a “downpayment on next year’s season tickets.”