NERD Game Scores for Monday, September 21, 2015

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September 21, 2015

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.

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Most Highly Rated Game
New York AL at Toronto | 19:07 ET
Warren (119.0 IP, 100 xFIP-) vs. Price (208.1 IP, 80 xFIP-)
Following Sunday’s loss by Toronto and victory by New York, the latter club trails the former by a mere 2.5 games now in the AL East — or, precisely 0.5 games fewer than the length of the series which begins tonight between the two clubs. Indeed, the Yankees could potentially enter Thursday with a half-game lead of their own — or, alternatively, a 5.5-game deficit. Or a 3.5-game deficit, too. Or a 1.5-game deficit, actually. Barring the unforeseen, these are the four possible outcomes. Including the unforeseen, the outcomes become considerably more numerous.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Toronto Radio.

Two Brief Notes
Belated and Maybe Unnecessary Matt Boyd Update
What the purpose of this brief entry is, is to report that Fringe Five co-champion and Detroit left-hander Matt Boyd produced a mostly successful start on Saturday of this weekend. Despite conceding two home runs (his 13th and 14th of the season in just 48.2 innings, unfortunately), Boyd allowed just the two runs overall while also recording a 6:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio against 21 batters over 6.0 innings.

Here’s a brief film documenting the concluding pitches from three of those strikeouts:

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Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Los Angeles AL at Houston, starts at 20:10 ET, 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 the calculations both for team and game NERD scores have changed recently to better integrate playoff odds into same. Read more about those adjustments here and here.

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Away   SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP   Home Time
Je. Samardzija CHA 7 4 4 4 4 DET Kyle Ryan 13:08
Erik Johnson CHA 2 4 3 4 2 DET Randy Wolf 19:08
Ub. Jimenez BAL 6 4 5 5 6 WAS Gio Gonzalez 19:05
Adam Warren NYA 3 8 7 8 8 TOR David Price 19:07
Shelby Miller ATL 7 4 5 4 5 NYN Jon Niese 19:10
Chris Archer TB 10 4 5 4 7 BOS Ed. Rodriguez 19:10
Wily Peralta MIL 4 4 4 4 7 CHN Jason Hammel 20:05
Jered Weaver LAA 2 6 7 10 9 HOU Dallas Keuchel 20:10
John Lamb CIN 8 4 5 5 6 STL Jaime Garcia 20:15
A.J. Burnett PIT 5 6 5 4 7 COL Jonathan Gray 20:40
Jhoulys Chacin AZ 4 4 4 4 6 LAN Brett Anderson 22:10

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





 

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