One Night Only: Game Previews for September 6th

Featured Games
Los Angeles Nationals (4) at Washington (6) | 19:05 ET
• The author has taken the liberty of assigning Stephen Strasburg a NERD score of 19 — i.e. the lowest number Strasburg could receive for the purposes of making the overall Game Score a 10.
• It’s for these sort of executive decisions that people often refer to me as “Carson Cistulli.”
• On other occasions, people call me other, horribler things.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Dodgers Television (or Nationals Television, for what might be a more Strasburg-centric broadcast).

Seattle (0) at Los Angeles Americans (5) | 22:05 ET
• There’s a thin red line separating the current baseball season from a baseball season without a playoff race.
• The Angels, if I may submit a submission, are that thin red line.
• And Mike Trout is the Great Artist drawing said line.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Mariners Television.

San Francisco (3) at San Diego (3) | 22:05 ET
• Let’s watch this game together at San Francisco’s Gordon Biersch Brewery, how about.
• Starting around 5pm PT, how about.
• With some other baseball-y baseball nerds.

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 5.9.

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
Tim Hudson	ATL	6	4	5	3	6	PHI	Vance Worley	19:05
Tommy Hunter	BAL	6	1	4	10	4	NYA	Phil Hughes	19:05
Rick Porcello	DET	6	2	5	5	5	CLE	Fausto Carmona	19:05
Brett Myers	HOU	5	4	4	5	4	PIT	Brad Lincoln	19:05
Ted Lilly	LAN	5	4	10	6	19	WAS	Stephen Strasburg*	19:05
Jon Lester	BOS	6	10	6	6	6	TOR	Luis Perez*	19:07
Miguel Batista*	STL	5	3	6	8	8	FL	Chris Volstad	19:10
C.J. Wilson	TEX	6	8	8	7	5	TB	Jeff Niemann	19:10
Mike Leake	CIN	7	5	4	4	3	CHN	Rodrigo Lopez	20:05
Jake Peavy	CHA	8	2	7	0	10	MIN	Liam Hendriks*	20:10
Yovani Gallardo	MIL	8	7	5	3	3	STL	Kyle Lohse	20:15
Josh Collmenter	AZ	5	9	4	5	2	COL	Jason Hammel	20:40
Danny Duffy	KC	6	10	5	1	6	OAK	Gio Gonzalez	22:05
Felix Hernandez	SEA	9	0	10	5	6	LAA	Ervin Santana	22:05
Eric Surkamp*	SF	8	3	5	6	3	SD	Wade LeBlanc	22:05

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.