Zack Greinke prepares for tonight’s pregame interview. (He’s a nerd, is the joke.)
This edition of One Night Only contains:
1. Expanded previews for two games: San Diego at Milwaukee and Detroit at Toronto.
2. Shorter, but no less charming, previews for three more games: Minnesota at Boston, Oakland at Texas, and Chicago AL at Los Angeles AL.
3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.
Episode Seventy-Three
In which the panel is fantastic — in only one sense of the word.
Headlines
Eric Hosmer’s Glory — Glorified!
Pick Six Fantasy Game — Shilled For!
Competent Third Basemen — Sought After!
Featuring
Jason Catania, Longest Islander
Eno Sarris, Bay Area-ist
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Baseball Man
This edition of One Night Only contains:
1. Hot, bullet-pointed previews for seven games — probably including your favorite team!
2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of this weekend’s games.
3. Tons of frigging whimsy.
The One Night Only game previews for this weekend will appear at 3pm ET. In the meantime, what follows concerns one of the starters for today’s only afternoon game — Edinson Volquez of the Cincinnati Reds (who play in Chicago at 2:20pm ET).
As any member of his eponymous support group will tell you, Cincinnati Red starter Edinson Volquez is an enigma.
On the one hand, the 27-year-old features a fastball that sits at about 94 mph, a whiff-making changeup, the ability to induce grounders at above-average rates, and an overall swinging-strike percentage that generally places among the league’s best. (The 11.6 SwStr% he presently sports is eighth-highest out of 113 qualified pitchers.)
On the other hand, there are glaring — almost tragic — flaws. Reds fans and Volquez’s fantasy owners are likely acquainted with the righty’s first-inning struggles this season. Whether the product of randomness or something more specific than that, Volquez has been miserable in the first, allowing more than twice as many runs in that inning (14 total thus far) than in all the 27.1 frames he’s pitched in innings two through six combined (just six runs allowed). His defense-independent stats back this up: Volquez has a FIP of about 13.90 in his six first innings compared to a ca. 4.10 FIP in all the other innings he’s pitched after the first.
It’s backwards and hilarious.
This edition of One Night Only contains:
1. Expanded previews for three games: Florida at St. Louis, Cleveland at Oakland, and Colorado at Arizona.
2. Shorter, but no less charming, previews for three more games: Houston at Cincinnati, New York (AL) at Detroit, and Milwaukee at Atlanta.
3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.
4. More bullet points than meet the eye.
5. More other things than meet the eye, too.
Phil Collins is uncommonly excited for Zack Greinke’s Brewer debut.
This edition of One Night Only contains:
1. Expanded previews for three games: Milwaukee at Atlanta, Cleveland at Oakland, and Colorado at Arizona.
2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.
3. Entirely relevant and timely pop-culture references.
By definition, every shot of William Howard Taft is a wide-angle shot.
This edition of One Night Only contains:
1. Expanded previews for two games: San Francisco at New York (NL) and Colorado at Atlanta.
2. Smaller, but still entirely luminous, reports on three more games: Milwaukee at Atlanta, Florida at St. Louis, and Cleveland at Oakland.
3. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games regardless of race, creed, color, gender, or if it involves the Astros.
Brandon McCarthy wants to do for opposing batters what Senator McCarthy did for pinko commies.
This edition of One Night Only contains:
1. Expanded previews for three games: Texas at Oakland, New York (AL) at Detroit, and Los Angeles (AL) at Boston.
2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.
3. At least one cheap joke about Bartolo Colon’s appetite.
An actual drawing from Daniel Hudson’s dream journal.
This edition of One Night Only contains:
1. Hot, bullet-pointed previews for six games.
2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of this weekend’s games.
3. A challenging blend of vim and vigor.
Episode Seventy-Two
In which the panel is every which and loose.
Headlines
The Live Event in LA — Briefly Discussed!
The Marlins and Indians — Marveled At!
Travis Hafner’s Face — Considered Scientifically!
Featuring
Dave Cameron, Full-Time Employee
Matt Klaassen, Troublemaker
Joe Pawlikowski, Morning Afterer
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