One Night Only: Game Previews for August 15th

Jose Constanza provides excellent return on your entertainment dollar.

Featured Game
San Francisco (4) at Atlanta (4) | 19:00 ET
• Behold! as one team (San Francisco) attempts furiously to claw itself back to the top of the NL West.
• Behold! as a second team (Atlanta) clings furiously to its Wild Card lead.
• Continue to behold!, as pitcher Madison Bumgarner (10) is good and young and due for, like, six kinds of regression.
• Provided you still have the strength, consider beholding! the Atlanta Braves’ right field area, where maybe Jose Constanza is instead of Jason Heyward.
• Which, “multiple and conflicting emotions” is a perfectly legitimate response to that.

Audio Feed: Giants Radio.

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 5.2.

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

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Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP	Home		Time
Madison Bumgarner	SF	10	4	9	4	6	ATL	Tim Hudson	19:00
Francisco Liriano	MIN	4	0	5	2	6	DET	Rick Porcello	19:05
Jake Westbrook	STL	4	3	6	5	4	PIT	James McDonald	19:05
Rodrigo Lopez	CHN	2	2	3	3	7	HOU	Henry Sosa*	20:05
Ted Lilly	LAN	6	4	4	8	2	MIL	Randy Wolf	20:10
A.J. Burnett	NYA	6	10	6	10	8	KC	Felipe Paulino	20:10
Clay Hensley	FL	0	9	2	6	5	COL	Kevin Millwood*	20:40
Tommy Hunter*	BAL	4	2	3	1	6	OAK	Gio Gonzalez	22:05
R.A. Dickey	NYN	9	6	5	6	4	SD	Aaron Harang	22:05
Alexi Ogando	TEX	7	8	8	5	6	LAA	Garrett Richards*	22:05
Henderson Alvarez*	TOR	7	6	6	0	10	SEA	Michael Pineda	22:10

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.