Daily Notes, Including Actual News on Bard and Bauer

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

1. Actual News: Daniel Bard and Trevor Bauer at Triple-A
2. Today’s Notable Games (Including MLB.TV Free Game)
3. Today’s Complete Schedule

Actual News: Daniel Bard and Trevor Bauer at Triple-A
Regarding Trevor Bauer
Right-handed Arizona pitching prospect Trevor Bauer made his fifth start for Triple-A Reno on Friday following his mid-May promotion to same. Here’s his line from that start: 7.0 IP, 27 TBF, 11 K, 2 BB, 0 HR. And now here’s his line at Triple-A: 32.0 IP, 11.8 K/9, 3.9 BB/9, 0.3 HR/9.

What That Is in Terms of FIP
That brings Bauer’s Triple-A FIP to about 2.30. The PCL league average, according to Minor League Central, is 4.13.

Regarding Daniel Bard
Bard made his debut for Triple-A Pawtucket on Friday after his recent demotion to same. His line (against Pittsburgh affiliate Indianapolis): 1.0 IP, 7 TBF, 2 K, 0 BB, 2 HBP.

When He’ll Next Pitch
Bard will next pitch for Pawtucket on Monday — likely two or three innings, according to Paul Kenyon of the Providence Journal.

Video from That Same Pawtucket Game
Here’s video from that same Pawtucket game in which Bard pitched.

First, of the real, live Mark Prior striking out Indy catcher Tony Sanchez on a curveball:

And also of the still real and still live Mark Prior striking out the next batter, Anderson Hernandez, also on a curveball:

Prior’s Line at Pawtucket, Currently
Here’s Mark Prior’s line with Pawtucket that you were wondering about: 4.2 IP, 19 TBF, 10 K, 2 BB, 0 HR.

Today’s Notable Games
Washington at Boston | 16:05 ET
Returning from Tommy John surgery, Boston’s Daisuke Matsuzaka makes his first major-league appearance since last May. His line in six rehab starts at Triple-A Pawtucket: 28.1 IP, 6.35 K/9, 2.22 BB/9, 1.59 HR/9, 5.14 FIP.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Boston Radio.

Detroit at Cincinnati | 16:10 ET ***MLB.TV Free Game***
Justin Verlander, who has the second-best WAR among all pitchers, faces Joey Votto, who actually has the highest WAR among all batters.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Detroit Radio.

San Diego at Milwaukee | 16:10 ET
Very hard-throwing right-hander Andrew Cashner begins his transition to the starting rotation tonight — although, is only expected to throw three innings.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Milwaukee 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 5.5.

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
Jeff Samardzija	CHN	10	2	5	2	7	MIN	Scott Diamond	14:10
Vance Worley	PHI	7	5	6	4	4	BAL	Tommy Hunter	16:05
Scott Feldman*	TEX	2	10	3	5	2	SF	Ryan Vogelsong	16:05
Drew Hutchison	TOR	5	6	6	7	4	ATL	Tommy Hanson	16:05
Gio Gonzalez	WAS	10	5	8	5	5	BOS	D. Matsuzaka*	16:05
Dan Haren	LAA	6	3	6	8	5	COL	Jeff Francis*	16:10
Justin Verlander	DET	9	4	6	4	5	CIN	Bronson Arroyo	16:10
Jordan Lyles	HOU	5	5	6	5	10	CHA	Chris Sale	16:10
Andrew Cashner*	SD	8	6	6	6	7	MIL	Michael Fiers*	16:10
Justin Masterson	CLE	3	4	5	10	4	STL	Kyle Lohse	19:15
Vin Mazzaro*	KC	5	5	5	2	7	PIT	James McDonald	19:15
Clayton Kershaw	LAN	9	5	5	5	2	SEA	Jason Vargas	19:15
Dillon Gee	NYN	9	2	6	5	5	NYA	Phil Hughes	19:15
Matt Moore	TB	6	5	5	4	4	MIA	Carlos Zambrano	19:15
Jarrod Parker	OAK	3	3	4	5	5	AZ	Trevor Cahill	22:10

To learn more about Pitcher and Team NERD scores click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.