One Night Only: Game Previews for August 14th

If a tree falls in Sun Life Stadium, you can hear it in every other part of Sun Life Stadium, probably.

Featured Game
San Francisco (4) at Florida (9) | 13:10 ET
• This game does well by NERD predominantly because (a) the Marlins are young and (b) the Giants are very much in a postseason race.
• It does well otherwise because Mike Stanton (.261/.347/.525, .315 BABIP, 133 wRC+) will play in it and Brandon Belt (recalled yesterday) might also play in it.
• The other thing, though, is how the Marlins are drawing a league-worst 18,244 per game in a stadium with a capacity of around 70,000 for baseball, meaning the stadium is generally three-quarters empty.
• As Bill James has said somewhere, at some point: “Things are generally interesting to us because they’re interesting to other people.” Something like that.
• Looking at Miami’s Sun Life Stadium, it appears as though few people consider the Marlins interesting.

Audio Feed: Giants Radio. (Featuring the dulcet tones of Jon Miller.)

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 5.7.

The following Game Scores include the new and improved playoff-odds adjustment, which you can learn about in your brain by clicking here.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP	Home		Time
Kevin Slowey*	MIN	5	0	6	6	5	CLE	David Huff*	13:05
James Shields	TB	8	6	6	10	6	NYA	A.J. Burnett	13:05
Dan Haren	LAA	7	5	7	6	4	TOR	Brett Cecil	13:07
Wade LeBlanc	SD	3	6	4	5	7	CIN	Dontrelle Willis	13:10
Ryan Vogelsong	SF	5	4	8	9	7	FL	Chris Volstad	13:10
Matt Garza	CHN	10	2	7	4	8	ATL	Brandon Beachy	13:35
Doug Fister	DET	4	2	4	2	3	BAL	Jo-Jo Reyes	13:35
Chien-Ming Wang*	WAS	5	4	5	3	10	PHI	Roy Halladay	13:35
Jeff Francis	KC	4	10	6	1	7	CHA	John Danks	14:10
Charlie Morton	PIT	4	5	5	7	6	MIL	Shaun Marcum	14:10
Matt Harrison	TEX	5	8	5	1	7	OAK	Rich Harden	16:05
Tim Wakefield	BOS	8	10	5	0	5	SEA	Charlie Furbush*	16:10
Jordan Lyles	HOU	7	3	4	4	6	LAN	Hiroki Kuroda	16:10
Chris Capuano	NYN	6	6	6	9	4	AZ	Jason Marquis	16:10
Esmil Rogers	COL	5	6	8	3	8	STL	Edwin Jackson	20:05

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.