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.