NERD Game Scores for Tuesday, June 3, 2014

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June 3, 2014

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
Pittsburgh at San Diego | 22:10 ET
Gerrit Cole (71.0 IP, 94 xFIP-, 0.5 WAR) faces Jesse Hahn (32.2 IP, 20.9% K, 8.2% BB at Double-A). The former is a 23-year-old who has recorded thus far the fourth-highest average fastball velocity, at 95.7 mph, among 101 qualified pitchers. The latter, making his major-league debut, is a 22-year-old right-hander who — according to multiple reports — is likely to sit at something like 93-96 mph with his fastball.

Readers’ Preferred Broadcast: San Diego Television?

Three Brief Notes
Regarding Jon Singleton, His Likely Debut
Houston first-base prospect Jon Singleton, who yesterday signed a long-term contract, is likely to make his major-league debut at home against the Anaheims tonight. He’s projected by Steamer to record a 102 wRC+ (.289 BABIP) over the remainder of the 2014 season.

Regarding Jaime Garcia, On the Status of His Status
St. Louis left-hander Jaime Garcia, recently returned from shoulder surgery, has struck out 19 of the 73 batters he’s faced thus far (26.0%) and walked zero of them.

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Regarding Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Anaheim at Houston, starts at 8:10pm 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.

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Away   SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP   Home Time
Jake Peavy BOS 2 3 4 5 7 CLE T.J. House* 19:05
Scott Kazmir OAK 6 6 5 4 5 NYA Hiroki Kuroda 19:05
David Buchanan* PHI 4 2 6 7 9 WAS J. Zimmermann 19:05
Drew Hutchison TOR 6 7 6 4 6 DET Anibal Sanchez 19:08
Tim Lincecum SF 6 7 6 2 7 CIN Homer Bailey 19:10
Erasmo Ramirez SEA 4 4 5 7 6 ATL Gavin Floyd 19:10
Chris Archer TB 6 5 6 8 6 MIA Hen’son Alvarez 19:10
James Shields KC 6 4 7 4 9 STL Jaime Garcia* 19:15
Ubaldo Jimenez BAL 4 4 4 3 4 TEX Joe Saunders* 20:05
Zack Wheeler NYN 8 2 6 5 6 CHN Jake Arrieta 20:05
C.J. Wilson LAA 4 7 6 7 8 HOU Collin McHugh 20:10
Samuel Deduno MIN 4 4 4 6 2 MIL Yovani Gallardo 20:10
Chase Anderson* AZ 6 5 6 9 4 COL Jorge de la Rosa 20:40
Hector Noesi CHA 3 2 4 6 6 LAN Dan Haren 22:10
Gerrit Cole PIT 9 5 8 5 8 SD Jesse Hahn* 22:10

To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.





 

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Hurtlocker
11 years ago

I get the pitching matchup for the Padres-Pirates game, but both teams rated five is a stretch.

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Big JgkeMember since 2020
11 years ago
Reply to  Hurtlocker

Yeah, Hutchinson v.Sanchez seems like a far more captivating matchup.

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