Daily Notes: All Today’s Games, Rated for Watchability
Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.
1. A Brief Introduction to This Edition of the Notes
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule
A Brief Introduction to This Edition of the Notes
Owing to the fact that there are games today, so is there an edition of the Notes. Owing to how it is also a holiday, however, this edition of the Notes is decidedly truncated so that the author might dedicate the largest part of his day to Unbridled Leisure.
Please find below both (a) a brief preview of today’s MLB.TV Free Game and, after that, (b) all of today’s games rated according to NERD, this site’s very proprietary watchability metric.
Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Los Angeles AL at Los Angeles NL | 20:10 ET
C.J. Wilson (63.2 IP, 99 xFIP-, 0.8 WAR) faces Zack Greinke (20.2 IP, 105 xFIP-, 0.5 WAR). The latter was uncharacteristically ineffective in his most recent start, posting just a 1:3 strikeout-to-walk ratio against 24 batters in 4.0 innings. Greinke’s velocity has been down about 1.5 mph this season relative to 2012 — even including his starts before his DL stint.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Los Angeles NL Television.
Today’s Complete 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 5.4.
Note: the following table is entirely sortable.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Hammel | BAL | 3 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 6 | WAS | Gio Gonzalez | 13:05 |
| Francisco Liriano* | PIT | 11 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 9 | DET | Justin Verlander | 13:08 |
| Ubaldo Jimenez | CLE | 6 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 5 | CIN | Mike Leake | 13:10 |
| Jhoulys Chacin | COL | 3 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | HOU | Bud Norris | 14:10 |
| Kevin Correia | MIN | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | MIL | Wily Peralta | 14:10 |
| Ad. Wainwright | STL | 10 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 7 | KC | James Shields | 14:10 |
| Jose Fernandez | MIA | 9 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 8 | TB | Jake Odorizzi* | 15:10 |
| Martin Perez* | TEX | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | AZ | Tyler Skaggs* | 15:40 |
| Mad. Bumgarner | SF | 8 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | OAK | Dan Straily | 16:05 |
| Clayton Richard | SD | 0 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 5 | SEA | Aaron Harang | 16:10 |
| Tim Hudson | ATL | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | TOR | Mark Buehrle | 19:07 |
| Jeff Samardzija | CHN | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 5 | CHA | Jose Quintana | 19:10 |
| Phil Hughes | NYA | 6 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 2 | NYN | Jon Niese | 19:10 |
| Tyler Cloyd* | PHI | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | BOS | Alfredo Aceves* | 19:10 |
| C.J. Wilson | LAA | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | LAN | Zack Greinke | 20:10 |
| Yu Darvish | TEX | 10 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | AZ | Trevor Cahill | 21:40 |
To learn how Pitcher and Team NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.
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If only Correia could muster a “2” NERD score, the MIN-MIL game would be a straight–and roughly as exciting to watch as a poker game (not that that’ll stop me: I’ll be watching until I have to head to work).