One Night Only: Game Previews for September 9th

Pavarotti doesn’t know what game to watch on Friday.

New York Americans (10) at Los Angeles Americans (5) | 22:05 ET
Mike Trout Watch (Full Season Edition)
97 PA, .230/.299/.448 (.224 BABIP), 106 wRC+

Mike Trout Watch (Should-Hit Edition)
If we assume a .300 BABIP for Mike Trout, he should be posting a 141 wRC+.

Playoff Watch
The Angels are 2.5 games behind Texas. Cool Standings gives them a 13.7% chance of making the playoffs.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Angels Radio?

Two Other Games
Houston (4) at Washington (6) | 19:05 ET
Don’t neglect this opportunity to watch left-hander Tom Milone, who posted a 155:16 in 141.1 minor-league innings this year, make his second career major-league start. Also, don’t neglect this opportunity to begin referring to the Nationals as the Team of the Future™.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Astros Television.

Los Angeles Nationals (4) at San Francisco (3) | 22:15 ET
This game will feature talented starters Clayton Kershaw (10) at Tim Lincecum (8). I’m hearing it will also feature All of the Sadness — in capital letters like that.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Dodgers Television or Giants Radio.

Full Schedule
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 5.1.

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
Ricky Nolasco	FL	7	8	5	5	4	PIT	Ross Ohlendorf	19:05
Bud Norris	HOU	7	4	7	6	9	WAS	Tom Milone*	19:05
Kevin Slowey	MIN	4	0	2	2	2	DET	Brad Penny	19:05
Jeremy Guthrie	BAL	3	2	3	6	4	TOR	Brett Cecil	19:07
John Lackey	BOS	3	10	4	7	1	TB	Wade Davis	19:10
Casey Coleman	CHN	3	4	2	4	2	NYN	Mike Pelfrey	19:10
Brandon McCarthy	OAK	8	1	7	7	4	TEX	Colby Lewis	20:05
Jeanmar Gomez	CLE	3	5	3	2	3	CHA	Mark Buehrle	20:10
Roy Halladay	PHI	10	3	6	8	5	MIL	Shaun Marcum	20:10
Randall Delgado*	ATL	6	4	6	3	7	STL	Edwin Jackson	20:15
Homer Bailey	CIN	7	5	5	6	5	COL	Jhoulys Chacin	20:40
Mat Latos	SD	7	6	7	9	8	AZ	Daniel Hudson	21:40
Bartolo Colon	NYA	7	10	10	5	5	LAA	Jered Weaver	22:05
Jeff Francis	KC	4	10	3	0	3	SEA	Blake Beavan	22:10
Clayton Kershaw	LAN	10	4	7	3	8	SF	Tim Lincecum	22:15

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.