NERD Game Scores for Saturday, 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.
Most Highly Rated Game
San Francisco at Pittsburgh | 16:05 ET
Leake (143.0 IP, 97 xFIP-) vs. Cole (155.1 IP, 80 xFIP-)
The relative brevity of the passage you’re reading here is correlated inversely to the length of time the author spent last night consuming various spirits with readers of FanGraphs and also the magnitude of the physical discomfort which has been produced inside the author’s body as a result of that activity. In conclusion, faux science suggests once again that the Giants and Pirates ought to offer some combination of thrill and delight.
Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: San Francisco Radio or Television.
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.
| 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.
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Thrill and delight!