One Night Only: Game Previews for August 16th

While certainly difficult to look at, white socks remain effective as ever.

Featured Game
Cleveland (6) at Chicago Americans (2) | 20:10 ET
• The White Sox currently have a winning percentage of exactly .500.
• The last time they were at .500 wasn’t so long ago — July 29th.
• After which they immediately proceeded to go 0-6… and then 8-2 right after that.
• The last time they were above .500 is longer ago, however — April 15th, when they owned a 7-6 record.
• Last note: Ubaldo Jimenez with Cleveland: 2 GS, 13.0 IP, 23.2% K, 7.1% BB, 48.7% GB, 3.12 SIERA, 3.13 xFIP, 79 xFIP-.

Audio Feed: White Sox Television. (Unless Hawk Harrelson makes you physically ill, that is — in which case, try Cleveland Radio probably.)

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.

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
James Shields	TB	8	6	7	10	7	BOS	Jon Lester	13:05
Josh Collmenter	AZ	5	9	7	3	10	PHI	Roy Halladay	19:05
Mike Leake	CIN	6	5	4	4	5	WAS	Chien-Ming Wang*	19:05
Nick Blackburn	MIN	3	0	6	2	10	DET	Justin Verlander	19:05
Chris Carpenter	STL	8	3	8	5	5	PIT	Jeff Karstens	19:05
Jonathan Sanchez	SF	3	4	7	4	8	ATL	Randall Delgado*	19:10
Jeff Niemann	TB	5	6	6	10	7	BOS	Erik Bedard	19:10
Ryan Dempster	CHN	7	2	4	3	5	HOU	Brett Myers	20:05
Ubaldo Jimenez	CLE	7	6	9	2	5	CHA	Gavin Floyd	20:10
Chad Billingsley	LAN	5	4	5	8	7	MIL	Yovani Gallardo	20:10
Ivan Nova	NYA	5	10	5	10	6	KC	Danny Duffy	20:10
Anibal Sanchez	FL	10	8	6	6	5	COL	Jhoulys Chacin	20:40
Brian Matusz	BAL	2	1	0	1	0	OAK	Guillermo Moscoso	22:05
Jonathon Niese	NYN	9	6	7	6	10	SD	Cory Luebke	22:05
Derek Holland	TEX	7	8	6	5	2	LAA	Tyler Chatwood	22:05
Brad Mills*	TOR	5	6	2	0	3	SEA	Jason Vargas	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.