Daily Notes: Feat. Max Scherzer and Matt Harvey Face-à-Face

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

1. Max Scherzer and Matt Harvey Face-à-Face
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Max Scherzer and Matt Harvey Face-à-Face
The Purpose of This Post
The purpose of this post is to alert the bespectacled readership to how very talented Detroit right-hander Max Scherzer faces very talented New York (Nationals) right-hander Matt Harvey this (Saturday) afternoon at 4:05pm ET in Queens, New York — a rencontre of such significance that one must employ French words to describe it.

A Leaderboard Feat. Both Harvey and Scherzer
This is the very top of WAR pitching leaderboard — which leaderboard features both Matt Harvey and Max Scherzer:

A Second Leaderboard Feat. Both Harvey and Scherzer
This is the very top of RA9-WAR leaderboard — which metric is a calculation of WAR using ERA, essentially, as opposed to FIP and which leaderboard features both Matt Harvey and Max Scherzer:

A Third Leaderboard Feat. Both Harvey and Scherzer
This is the very top of xFIP- pitching leaderboard for qualified pitchers — which leaderboard features both Matt Harvey and Max Scherzer:

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
Atlanta at St. Louis | 19:15 ET
Julio Teheran (149.0 IP, 101 xFIP-, 2.0 WAR) faces Shelby Miller (132.2 IP, 89 xFIP-, 2.2 WAR). As noted by Dave Cameron this past week, the pair here are (deserving) candidates for the National’s League rookie-of-the-year award.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: St. Louis 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
Jon Lester	BOS	5	9	6	3	6	LAN	Hyun-Jin Ryu	16:05
Max Scherzer	DET	9	7	9	7	10	NYN	Matt Harvey	16:05
Tommy Milone	OAK	4	6	5	9	5	BAL	Chris Tillman	16:05
Randall Delgado	AZ	7	3	5	0	4	PHI	Ethan Martin	19:05
Liam Hendriks*	MIN	6	4	5	7	4	CLE	Zach McAllister	19:05
Jeff Manship*	COL	3	8	6	1	10	MIA	Jose Fernandez	19:10
Wily Peralta	MIL	6	3	5	3	5	CIN	Bronson Arroyo	19:10
CC Sabathia	NYA	6	3	7	10	7	TB	David Price	19:10
Yu Darvish	TEX	10	3	6	2	4	CHA	Hector Santiago	19:10
C-M Wang	TOR	3	6	2	4	0	HOU	Brad Peacock	19:10
J. Zimmermann	WAS	8	3	6	7	4	KC	Wade Davis	19:10
Julio Teheran	ATL	7	8	7	3	9	STL	Shelby Miller	19:15
Jeff Samardzija	CHN	8	5	6	6	4	SD	Eric Stults	20:40
Francisco Liriano	PIT	9	6	7	5	7	SF	Tim Lincecum	21:05
Jason Vargas	LAA	3	8	5	4	7	SEA	Erasmo Ramirez	21:10

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.