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.

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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.