NERD Game Scores for Saturday, August 22, 2015

August 22, 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
San Francisco at Pittsburgh | 16:05 ET
Leake (143.0 IP, 97 xFIP-) vs. Cole (155.1 IP, 80 xFIP-)
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Another Brief Note
Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Minnesota at Baltimore, starts at 19:05 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
Danny Salazar	CLE	10	4	8	8	10	NYA	Luis Severino	13:05
Williams Perez	ATL	1	2	4	8	3	CHN	Dan Haren	16:05
Mike Leake	SF	5	10	9	9	10	PIT	Gerrit Cole	16:05
Tay. Jungmann	MIL	5	3	6	8	10	WAS	Joe Ross	19:05
Kyle Gibson	MIN	4	2	4	8	3	BAL	Chris Tillman	19:05
Yovani Gallardo	TEX	2	5	3	3	3	DET	Randy Wolf*	19:08
Rand. Delgado*	AZ	5	4	4	3	5	CIN	Ant’ny DeSclafani	19:10
Yo. Ventura	KC	8	3	5	3	7	BOS	Matt Barnes*	19:10
Zack Greinke	LAN	7	10	8	8	5	HOU	Scott Kazmir	19:10
Aaron Harang	PHI	2	2	3	4	2	MIA	Justin Nicolino	19:10
Jon Niese	NYN	5	7	5	3	5	COL	Chris Rusin	20:10
Carlos Martinez	STL	10	4	5	3	4	SD	Ian Kennedy	20:40
Erasmo Ramirez	TB	6	3	4	3	7	OAK	Sonny Gray	21:05
Marco Estrada	TOR	2	9	7	8	6	LAA	Andrew Heaney	21:05
Carlos Rodon	CHA	8	2	4	3	6	SEA	Vidal Nuno	21:10

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