Daily Notes: Danny Salazar Night in America

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

1. Danny Salazar Night in America
2. Other Notable Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Danny Salazar Night in America
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is to announce that Cleveland right-hander Danny Salazar, of the Santo Domingo Salazars, is starting tonight (Monday) at 8:10pm ET against Minnesota — a game which is available gratis, care of MLB.TV.

Regarding Salazar, Why He’s Notable
One notable quality, with regard to Salazar, is his fastball, which is noted, by means of its power, for breaking the cedars of Lebanon.

Regarding Salazar, Why Else He’s Notable
Another notable quality apropos Salazar is his split-change, which is known, on account of its majesty, to make the deer give birth and strips the forests bare.

Regarding Salazar, A Third Reason He’s Notable
So far as Danny Salazar is concerned, a third reason he’s notable is for his slider, which is average or slightly above average.

Action Footage:
Here’s video footage of — courtesy both SportsTime Ohio and Jeff Sullivan, from a recent post written by the latter — of Salazar throwing a fastball at 100 mph fastball by Miguel Cabrera for a strikeout:

Other Notable Game
Detroit at Chicago AL | 20:10 ET
Doug Fister (149.0 IP, 83 xFIP-, 3.2 WAR) faces Chris Sale (149.1 IP, 73 xFIP-, 4.0 WAR) in a game which, as the seal below suggests, guarantees satisfaction.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Detroit 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 6.0.

Note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Dan Straily	OAK	6	7	4	6	0	TOR	J.A. Happ	12:37
Yu Darvish	TEX	10	3	7	4	6	HOU	B. Oberholtzer*	14:10
Garrett Richards	LAA	8	8	6	3	5	NYA	Hiroki Kuroda	19:05
Cole Hamels	PHI	7	1	7	8	8	ATL	Julio Teheran	19:10
Mat Latos	CIN	8	3	5	5	3	CHN	Travis Wood	20:05
Danny Salazar*	CLE	11	7	8	3	6	MIN	Andrew Albers*	20:10
Doug Fister	DET	7	8	8	1	10	CHA	Chris Sale	20:10
Tom Koehler	MIA	5	2	5	7	4	KC	Wade Davis	20:10
Edinson Volquez	SD	3	6	5	7	5	COL	Jhoulys Chacin	20:40
Scott Feldman	BAL	3	8	5	2	6	AZ	Wade Miley	21:40
Jenrry Mejia*	NYN	9	5	6	3	5	LAN	Ricky Nolasco	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.