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.
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
The index finger on the satisfaction-seal hand is freaking me out a little bit
Was just thinking the same thing. Was he in a motor boating accident?
Must be a different motor-boating technique than I’m familiar with…Nonetheless, the finger is disturbing.
The hand on the seal is an accurate representation of the hand of Bob Wickman.
Or perhaps, Mordecai Brown?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Mordecai_Brown_3_fingers.JPG/350px-Mordecai_Brown_3_fingers.JPG
I believe it was a boaking accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmdiiqIRA8
It’s actually just a partial view of the hand of Armando Alfonseca.
http://www.bobanddan.com/images/Bob/Alfonseca.jpg
Pardon, *Antonio Alfonseca
Your Grecian followers are now offended.