NERD Game Scores: Yordano Ventura Pitching Event

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
Kansas City at Cleveland | 19:05 ET
Yordano Ventura (88.1 IP, 87 xFIP-, 1.8 WAR) faces Josh Tomlin (64.1 IP, 84 xFIP, 0.8 WAR). The former has recorded not only the highest average fastball velocity among qualified starters, but also the sixth-fastest working pace among that same group. The latter, having typically survived off of his capacity to limit walks, has produced a strikeout rate thus far (21.9%) precisely 50% greater than his career average to date.

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A Single, Other Brief Note
Today’s Free Game
Today’s free game features Kansas City at Cleveland, starts at 7:05pm 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
Jason Hammel CHN 7 4 5 6 4 WAS Tanner Roark 11:05
M. Gonzalez BAL 1 6 4 2 6 BOS Jon Lester 13:35
Chase Whitley NYA 5 3 4 3 4 MIN Kyle Gibson 15:10
Marcus Stroman TOR 9 7 6 7 2 OAK Tommy Milone 16:05
R. Hernandez PHI 1 2 4 4 8 PIT Gerrit Cole 17:05
Matt Cain SF 4 5 4 4 3 SD Eric Stults 18:40
Y. Ventura KC 10 5 8 6 7 CLE Josh Tomlin 19:05
Alex Cobb TB 7 6 6 4 5 DET Drew Smyly 19:08
Kyle Lohse MIL 4 7 5 3 5 CIN Alfredo Simon 19:10
Roenis Elias SEA 5 5 7 2 10 CHA Chris Sale 19:10
Yu Darvish TEX 7 4 5 3 4 NYN Jon Niese 19:10
Nathan Eovaldi MIA 8 7 6 3 4 STL Lance Lynn 19:15
Josh Collmenter AZ 2 6 5 7 8 ATL Ervin Santana 19:35
Clay. Kershaw LAN 10 5 7 9 4 COL Jair Jurrjens* 20:10
Dallas Keuchel HOU 8 7 6 6 4 LAA C.J. Wilson 21:05

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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tz
9 years ago

Today as we celebrate our nation’s anniversary, let us all take a moment for Jair Jurrjens, who is making his 2014 debut pitching at Coors Field.

Against Clayton Kershaw.

Against all odds.

Mike Green
9 years ago
Reply to  tz

Kershaw has made 15 career starts in Coors. He’s 6-3 with a 5.03 ERA. Interestingly, he’s made only 9 starts in Petco (ERA 2.22) and 10 starts in AT&T (ERA 0.78). The career ERA+ may undersell him…

Jurrjens does have the odds against him, but even if he fails, there’s probably a good establishment that he can go to and watch a soccer game to ease his pain.

James
9 years ago
Reply to  tz

The same Rockies team Kershaw no hit just two weeks ago.