One Night Only: Game Previews for September 7th
Featured Game
Boston (10) at Toronto (6) | 19:07 ET
• This game is mostly meaningless, on the one hand, in terms of playoff implications.
• On the other hand, so is every jerky game in the whole jerky league, basically.
• And this is the only one that’ll feature Torontonian Brett Lawrie.
• Which, you probably heard all the news yesterday about how he leads the league in Player NERD.
• That was pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty, pret-ty big news.
MLB.TV Audio Feed: Boston Television.
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 5.5.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Verlander | DET | 10 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | CLE | Justin Masterson | 12:05 |
| Zach Britton | BAL | 5 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 6 | NYA | A.J. Burnett | 13:05 |
| Derek Holland | TEX | 7 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 10 | TB | David Price | 13:10 |
| Bruce Chen | KC | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | OAK | Guillermo Moscoso | 15:35 |
| R.A. Dickey | NYN | 9 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 0 | FL | Brad Hand | 17:10 |
| Matt Cain | SF | 6 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | SD | Aaron Harang | 18:35 |
| Brandon Beachy | ATL | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | PHI | Roy Oswalt | 19:05 |
| J.A. Happ | HOU | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | PIT | Brian Burres* | 19:05 |
| Dana Eveland* | LAN | 5 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | WAS | Chien-Ming Wang | 19:05 |
| Tim Wakefield | BOS | 8 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 10 | TOR | Brandon Morrow | 19:07 |
| Johnny Cueto | CIN | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 8 | CHN | Ryan Dempster | 20:05 |
| John Danks | CHA | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | MIN | Carl Pavano | 20:10 |
| Zack Greinke | MIL | 10 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 8 | STL | Chris Carpenter | 20:15 |
| Joe Saunders | AZ | 2 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 6 | COL | Kevin Millwood | 20:40 |
| Charlie Furbush | SEA | 3 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 6 | LAA | Jerome Williams* | 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.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
Jerome “Don’t Call Me Jeremy” Williams should get some props for this article:
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Jerome-Williams-The-Giants-called-me-8216-Jer?urn=mlb-wp18625