One Night Only: Game Previews for August 18th

Every player parking spot at San Francisco’s AT&T Park.

Featured Game
San Francisco (4) at Atlanta (4) | 19:10 ET
• Per their methodology, Cool Standings places the Giants’ postseason odds at 35.9%.
• Per their methodology, Baseball Prospectus places the Giants’ postseason odds at 65.1% — actually better than Arizona’s, whom they trail by 2.5 games in the NL West.
• Of course, neither system probably knows how the Giants have a team’s worth of disabled/injured players.
• Voila: Buster Posey (C), Pat Burrell (1B), Freddy Sanchez (2B), Jeff Keppinger (3B), Aaron Rowand (LF), Andres Torres (CF), Carlos Beltran (RF), Jonathan Sanchez or Barry Zito (SP), Sergio Romo and Brian Wilson (RP).
• Your mom can play shortstop, I guess.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Giants Radio. (With the straight-on Atlanta camera — the best angle in baseball.)

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 6.2.

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
Clayton Kershaw	LAN	10	4	7	8	6	MIL	Marco Estrada	14:10
Ian Kennedy	AZ	6	9	6	3	5	PHI	Vance Worley	19:05
Bronson Arroyo	CIN	4	5	5	4	8	WAS	Jordan Zimmermann	19:05
Tim Lincecum	SF	8	4	10	4	8	ATL	Mike Minor	19:10
Josh Beckett	BOS	7	10	6	10	5	KC	Luke Hochevar	20:10
Justin Masterson	CLE	7	6	9	3	4	CHA	Philip Humber	20:10
CC Sabathia	NYA	10	10	6	0	5	MIN	Brian Duensing	20:10
Javier Vazquez	FL	4	9	4	6	5	SD	Tim Stauffer	22:05
Colby Lewis	TEX	4	8	5	5	6	LAA	Jered Weaver	22:05
Ricky Romero	TOR	7	7	4	1	5	OAK	Trevor Cahill	22:05

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.