Daily Notes: Breathless Corey Kluber Status Update

Table of Contents
Here’s the table of contents for today’s edition of the Daily Notes.

1. Breathless Corey Kluber Status Update
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Breathless Corey Kluber Status Update
What the Attentive Reader Will Know
One thing the particularly attentive reader will know is that Cleveland right-hander and arch-nemesis of danger Corey Kluber started Friday night against the Tampa Bays Rays.

What Else That Reader Will Know
What else the reader might know is how the present author wrote a preview of Kluber’s Friday start, which preview was full of Considerable Praise for the Clevelander.

What the Reader Maybe Won’t Know
What even the most attentive reader mightn’t know is that, due to a rain delay — in a game which ultimately ended at about 3am local time — Kluber pitched only two innings on Friday (box).

Regarding Kluber’s Two Innings, Some Brief Remarks
Bearded and stoic Corey Kluber was excellent in his two innings, striking out three of the seven batters he faced and allowing just one batter to reach (via a second-inning walk).

Continuing Coverage of Corey Kluber’s Two Innings
Here are more relevant and stirring facts apropos Kluber’s abbreviated start:

• He threw 17 of his 24 pitches (71%) of his pitches for strikes.
• His fastball sat at 93-94 mph.
• He threw two of his very rousing curveballs, both on two-strike counts, both for swinging strikes.

Action Footage: Kluber’s First Curveball
Here’s slow-motion footage of Corey Kluber throwing his curveball to Kelly Johnson for a swinging strike and with a scoreboard materializing in front of him:

Action Footage: Kluber’s Second Curveball
Here’s more slow-motion footage of Kluber throwing his curveball — this time to Evan Longoria and also with a comet-like trail behind it and a blue strike-zone box:

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Seattle at Minnesota | 13:10 ET
Aaron Harang (37.1 IP, 99 xFIP-, 0.2 WAR) faces Kevin Correia (63.2 IP, 110 xFIP-, 0.3 WAR). In addition, here’s a Nick Franklin Status Update: 17 PA, 17.6% BB, 11.8% K, .286/.412/.714 (.200 BABIP), 206 wRC+, 0.3 WAR.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Minnesota or Seattle Radio.

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 5.8.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Chris Archer*	TB	8	7	7	9	6	CLE	Ubaldo Jimenez	13:05
Aaron Harang	SEA	6	6	4	3	1	MIN	Kevin Correia	13:10
Matt Cain	SF	4	5	6	2	9	STL	Shelby Miller	13:15
Jose Quintana	CHA	4	0	5	6	6	OAK	Dan Straily	16:05
Justin Verlander	DET	10	7	7	9	3	BAL	Jason Hammel	16:05
James Shields	KC	7	6	7	4	7	TEX	Nick Tepesch	16:05
Wily Peralta	MIL	6	5	4	2	3	PHI	Tyler Cloyd*	16:05
Zack Greinke	LAN	3	3	4	8	5	COL	Jhoulys Chacin	16:10
Collin McHugh*	NYN	5	6	6	0	9	MIA	Jose Fernandez	16:10
Ian Kennedy	AZ	3	3	6	6	10	CHN	Jeff Samardzija	19:15
Felix Doubront	BOS	6	7	6	5	6	NYA	Phil Hughes	19:15
Mike Leake	CIN	6	6	8	6	10	PIT	Francisco Liriano	19:15
Mad. Bumgarner	SF	7	5	7	2	9	STL	Ad. Wainwright	19:15
Gio Gonzalez	WAS	5	2	6	9	6	ATL	Tim Hudson	19:15
Bud Norris	HOU	2	4	4	5	5	LAA	Jerome Williams	22:05
Mark Buehrle	TOR	4	6	6	7	8	SD	Robbie Erlin	22:10

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.