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.

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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-)
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.

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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.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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dave
8 years ago

Thrill and delight!