NERD Game Scores for Monday, May 12, 2014
Devised originally in response to a challenge issued by viscount of the internet 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.
Most Highly Rated Game
Atlanta at San Francisco | 22:15 ET
Gavin Floyd (7.0 IP, 82 xFIP-, 0.2 WAR) faces Tim Lincecum (35.2 IP, 89 xFIP-, 0.0 WAR). The former was effective against St. Louis last Tuesday in his return to the majors following Tommy John surgery and the subsequent rehab, recording a 5:2 strikeout-to-walk ratio and 52.6% ground-ball rate in 7.0 inning (box). With regard to the Braves and Giants as clubs, they represent two of the five teams in the National League currently with a greater than 50% chance of qualifying for the divisional series.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: San Francisco Radio or Television.
MLB.TV Free Game
Unknown at Unknown | ??:?? ET
The free game for Monday hadn’t been announced as of press time. Updates to follow, almost certainly maybe.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: .
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.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rick Porcello | DET | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | BAL | Bud Norris | 19:05 |
| Bartolo Colon | NYN | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | NYA | Hiroki Kuroda | 19:05 |
| C.J. Wilson | LAA | 4 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 4 | TOR | Mark Buehrle | 19:07 |
| Travis Wood | CHN | 5 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 7 | STL | Tyler Lyons* | 20:10 |
| Colby Lewis | TEX | 4 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | HOU | Brad Peacock | 20:10 |
| Jor. Zimmermann | WAS | 9 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | AZ | Josh Collmenter | 21:40 |
| John Danks | CHA | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | OAK | Jesse Chavez | 22:05 |
| Tom Koehler | MIA | 3 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | LAN | Dan Haren | 22:10 |
| Cesar Ramos | TB | 0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | SEA | Felix Hernandez | 22:10 |
| Gavin Floyd* | ATL | 6 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | SF | Tim Lincecum | 22:15 |
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.
Perhaps handsome author should consider adjusting press time so as to be able to actually inform ungrateful reader of the day’s mlb.tv free game on a daily basis, rather than informing ungrateful reader of handsome author’s ineptitude on a daily basis.
That’s a possibility. The problem is balancing the press time against the start time of the games themselves — the earliest of which frequently begin at 1:05pm.
And the fact that Dave Cameron was just like, “Publish at 10:30am because I said publish at 10:30am.”
It’s a hostile work environment, as you can see.