One Night Only: Game Previews for August 11th

Let’s cut to the chase, how’s about.

Featured Game
Detroit (2) at Cleveland (6) | 19:05 ET
• Allow me to remind the reader that, after some important work in the NERD Lab yesterday, today’s Game Scores are being calculated with a new and improved playoff-odds adjustment — the entirely boring and unnecessarily complicated details of which any English speaker with a computer can read here.
• If you’re the sort of reader who prefers cutting to the chase, remain confident that Carson Cistulli is dedicated to improving your baseball experience to the max.
• If you’re the sort of film director who prefers cutting to the chase, your name is probably Hal Roach Sr.
• And you directed the Our Gang movies, among others.
• And you died in 1992. (Which: condolences.)

Audio Feed: Suggestions? (I’ve watched some Tigers Television. Rod Allen is quite strong, but I wouldn’t describe the broadcast as transencdent, either.)

Also Playing
Here’s the complete schedule for all of today’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one. Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire. The average NERD Game Score for today is 5.6.

Note: a full list of Team NERD scores — including the relevant playoff-odds adjustments (POFF) appear at the bottom of this post.

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Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP	Home		Time
Danny Duffy	KC	6	10	5	6	5	TB	Jeff Niemann	12:10
Cory Luebke	SD	10	6	8	6	9	NYN	Jonathon Niese	12:10
Jhoulys Chacin	COL	5	6	4	5	5	CIN	Johnny Cueto	12:35
Guillermo Moscoso	OAK	0	1	1	6	5	TOR	Brad Mills*	12:37
Tyler Chatwood	LAA	2	5	6	10	6	NYA	Bartolo Colon	13:05
Jordan Zimmermann	WAS	8	4	5	1	7	CHN	Ryan Dempster	14:20
Mark Buehrle	CHA	3	2	3	2	2	BAL	Chris Tillman	19:05
Justin Verlander	DET	10	2	10	6	5	CLE	Fausto Carmona	19:05
Yovani Gallardo	MIL	7	7	9	4	8	STL	Chris Carpenter	20:15
Brett Myers	HOU	5	3	5	9	2	AZ	Joe Saunders	21:40

NERD represents an attempt to anticipate the watchability of a game for the baseballing enthusiast.
To learn more about Pitcher NERD, click here and scroll down a little.
To learn more about latest Team NERD, click here.
To learn how Game NERD Scores are calculated, click here.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.

The complete Team NERD table. (Note: Team NERD Scores do not include POFF adjusted in last column):