NERD Game Scores for Saturday, August 29, 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
New York AL at Atlanta | 19:10 ET
Severino (23.0 IP, 90 xFIP-) vs. Wisler (64.2 IP, 127 xFIP-)
When observing the New York Yankees, one is observing a club afflicted by uncertainty. When observing Luis Severino, meanwhile, one is observing a pitcher engorged by talent. It’s a sort of litmus test — with which, of the two, one finds him- or herself identifying. Only one choice is sane, however.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: Atlanta Radio.

Another Brief Note
Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Kansas City at Tampa Bay, starts at 18:10 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.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP		Home	Time
Buck Farmer	DET	4	4	6	10	7	TOR	Drew Hutchison	13:07
Joe Kelly	BOS	6	4	5	4	10	NYN	Jacob deGrom	16:05
Lance Lynn	STL	5	7	5	7	0	SF	Ryan Vogelsong	16:05
Kris Medlen*	KC	9	4	5	4	6	TB	Jake Odorizzi	18:10
Chris Rusin	COL	6	4	6	7	5	PIT	J.A. Happ	19:05
Tom Koehler	MIA	3	4	5	5	7	WAS	Jo. Zimmermann	19:05
Colin Rea	SD	7	3	3	3	1	PHI	Adam Morgan	19:05
Keyvius Sampson	CIN	4	4	4	3	4	MIL	Matt Garza	19:10
Mike Fiers	HOU	4	8	6	6	2	MIN	Mike Pelfrey	19:10
Garrett Richards	LAA	7	6	6	4	10	CLE	Corey Kluber	19:10
Luis Severino	NYA	9	10	7	3	4	ATL	Matthew Wisler	19:10
Hisashi Iwakuma	SEA	8	4	5	3	7	CHA	Jeff Samardzija	19:10
Ubaldo Jimenez	BAL	6	5	6	7	6	TEX	Martin Perez	20:05
Aaron Brooks	OAK	6	4	5	4	6	AZ	Jhoulys Chacin*	20:10
Jon Lester	CHN	7	5	6	7	6	LAN	Mat Latos	21:10

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