Daily Notes, In Which R.A. Dickey Throws a Changeup

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

1. Action Footage: R.A. Dickey Throws a Changeup
2. Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Action Footage: R.A. Dickey Throws a Changeup
A Thing That R.A. Dickey Did Yesterday
A thing that Mets right-hander R.A. Dickey did on Thursday was to tie his career-high in strikeouts, with 13.

Another Thing R.A. Dickey Did Yesterday
Another thing R.A. Dickey did on Thursday was to record his 12th strikeout — against Pirates outfielder Garrett Jones in the eighth inning — was to record it via the changeup, a pitch he throws about one percent of the time or zero percent of the time.

Dickey’s Eighth-Inning Changeup
Here’s an animated GIF of the changeup Dickey threw to Garrett Jones in the eighth inning yesterday for his (i.e. Dickey’s) 12th strikeout:

Dickey’s Same Eighth-Inning Changeup, Except Slower
Here’s slow-motion footage of that same changeup R.A. Dickey threw to Garrett Jones in the eighth inning yesterday:

Dickey’s Eighth-Inning Changeup, The Slowest
Here’s the slowest available footage of that same changeup from R.A. Dickey — still to Garrett Jones, and still in the eighth inning of yesterday’s game:

Today’s MLB.TV Free Game
San Francisco at San Diego | 22:05 ET
Left-hander, and former independent league pitcher, Andrew Werner makes his seventh major-league start. Here’s his entirely competent line through the first six of them: 33.0 IP, 22.3% K, 8.6% BB, 57.0% GB, 3.57 SIERA, 92 xFIP-, 0.1 WAR.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: San Francisco 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 3.7.

Note: the following Game Scores include the poorly conceived playoff-odds adjustment discussed in a recent edition of Daily Notes. Also note: the following table is entirely sortable.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Aaron Cook	BOS	2	5	2	3	5	BAL	Chris Tillman	19:05
Homer Bailey	CIN	6	4	4	4	8	PIT	A.J. Burnett	19:05
Will Smith	KC	3	7	2	2	4	CLE	David Huff*	19:05
Hiroki Kuroda	NYA	6	7	3	4	4	TOR	Chad Jenkins*	19:07
Cliff Lee	PHI	10	6	5	4	4	MIA	Mark Buehrle	19:10
Jon Niese	NYN	7	2	3	6	4	ATL	Tim Hudson	19:35
Jered Weaver	LAA	4	7	4	6	6	TEX	Ryan Dempster	20:05
Drew Smyly	DET	6	5	4	4	5	MIN	Scott Diamond	20:10
Edgar Gonzalez*	HOU	6	3	4	9	6	MIL	Yovani Gallardo	20:10
Jer. Hellickson	TB	4	6	4	4	4	CHA	Gavin Floyd	20:10
Edwin Jackson	WAS	8	7	6	8	8	STL	Adam Wainwright	20:15
Travis Wood	CHN	3	2	2	7	5	AZ	Ian Kennedy	21:40
Blake Beavan	SEA	3	4	4	7	7	OAK	A.J. Griffin	22:05
Ryan Vogelsong	SF	3	4	3	7	7	SD	Andrew Werner	22:05
Jeff Francis	COL	5	7	5	1	10	LAN	Clayton Kershaw	22:10

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* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.