NERD Game Scores for Monday, August 22, 2016

Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by sabermetric nobleman Rob Neyer, and expanded at the request of nobody, NERD scores represent an attempt to summarize in one number (and on a scale of 0-10) the likely aesthetic appeal or watchability, for the learned fan, of a player or team or game. Read more about the components of and formulae for NERD scores here.

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Most Highly Rated Game
Washington at Baltimore | 19:05 ET
Strasburg (145.1 IP, 79 xFIP-) vs. Bundy (75.0 IP, 104 xFIP-)
The Baltimore Catechism, a Catholic text used for relating the tenets of that religion to (predominantly) children, was introduced (according to no fewer than one internet sources) in 1885 at a gathering of American bishops known as the Third Council of Baltimore. Tonight, one finds a different council of Baltimore, involving not a collection of ecclesiastics, but rather two of the league’s most compelling starters and also one club (the Orioles) facing real consequences with every win and loss. A catechism is unlikely to be authored during the course of tonight’s proceedings, except in the broadest sense — and then maybe in even a slightly broader sense than that.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Washington Radio.

One Other Brief Note
Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features the same Washington and Baltimore clubs cited above and can be accessed by means of this hyperlinked text.

Complete Schedule
Here’s the complete and very sortable table for all of today’s games. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and also the rest of the internet. Note that calculations both for team and game NERD scores feature adjustment for postseason odds that increases as season progresses. Read more about those adjustments here and here.

NERD Scores for August 22, 2016
Away SP TM GM TM SP Home Time
Scott Kazmir LAN 5 9 6 3 9 CIN Homer Bailey 12:35
Doug Fister HOU 3 5 5 5 9 PIT Jameson Taillon 19:05
Stephen Strasburg WAS 9 5 7 8 9 BAL Dylan Bundy 19:05
David Price BOS 8 10 7 4 6 TB Blake Snell 19:10
Chad Bettis COL 5 3 3 3 2 MIL Jimmy Nelson 19:20
Mike Foltynewicz ATL 8 2 4 4 5 AZ Zack Godley 21:40
Carlos Carrasco CLE 7 5 5 3 6 OAK Andrew Triggs 22:05
Jon Lester CHN 6 4 4 4 1 SD Edwin Jackson 22:10
Michael Pineda NYA 10 4 6 6 5 SEA Cody Martin* 22:10
SP denotes pitcher NERD score.
TM denotes team score.
GM denotes overall game score.
Highlighted portion denotes game of the day.

* = Fewer than 10 IP, NERD at discretion of clueless author.





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Brian Reinhartmember
7 years ago

Reader Alert: Stephen Strasburg has been replaced in tonight’s joust by A.J. Cole.