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.

Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
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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.
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Alvarez vs. Pineda should be fun… Alvarez making his 2nd start… throws 95-98.