One Night Only: Game Previews for August 19th
One of these things is decidedly not like the others.
Featured Game
Cleveland (6) at Detroit (2) | 19:05 ET
• The recently added playoff-odds adjustment continues to bring considerable joy to the author.
• Because without it, I mean, this game would come out as probably a 6 by NERD.
• That would, of course, pretty seriously undervalue what I’ll call the Drama Factor of this game.
• That’s different, of course, than Drama Factor, the book by Haitian-American author Wanda Toby, who, per Amazon, is “driven to write by the passion of creation.”
• Which passion, interestingly, is the same one I feel when I see Modern Family’s Sofía Vergara.
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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 4.9.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaime Garcia | STL | 8 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | CHN | Randy Wells | 14:20 |
| Homer Bailey | CIN | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | PIT | Kevin Correia | 19:05 |
| Josh Tomlin | CLE | 5 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 7 | DET | Max Scherzer | 19:05 |
| Roy Oswalt | PHI | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | WAS | Livan Hernandez | 19:05 |
| Shaun Marcum | MIL | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 3 | NYN | Mike Pelfrey | 19:10 |
| Felix Hernandez | SEA | 9 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | TB | Wade Davis | 19:10 |
| Daniel Hudson | AZ | 8 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 6 | ATL | Derek Lowe | 19:35 |
| Ryan Vogelsong | SF | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | HOU | Wandy Rodriguez | 20:05 |
| Andrew Miller | BOS | 1 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 4 | KC | Jeff Francis | 20:10 |
| Phil Hughes | NYA | 3 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 5 | MIN | Kevin Slowey* | 20:10 |
| Matt Harrison | TEX | 5 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 8 | CHA | Jake Peavy | 20:10 |
| Hiroki Kuroda | LAN | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 2 | COL | Jason Hammel | 20:40 |
| Jo-Jo Reyes | BAL | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | LAA | Dan Haren | 22:05 |
| Chris Volstad | FL | 7 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 3 | SD | Wade LeBlanc | 22:05 |
| Brett Cecil | TOR | 4 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 6 | OAK | Rich Harden | 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.
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Is there “recovering from suckitude” adjustment to be made?
Phil Hughes starts are by far the most interesting starts on the Yankees, for me, because of his early season difficulties. I’d think that would warrant more than a 3 NERD.
I think it’s only really interesting for us Yankees fans, who have a stake in his recovery.
A Cubs fan, as a random example, probably doesn’t give a shit if Phil Hughes does well, nor would a normal Phil Hughes start be interesting.