One Night Only: Game Previews for August 1st

“Zack Greinke,” is probably the answer.

Featured Game
St. Louis (8) at Milwaukee (8) | 20:10 ET
• A number of readers noted (correctly), regarding the recent piece in which I named Clayton Kershaw the Boss of the Strike Zone that, were he qualified, Zack Greinke would actually have a better mark per strikeout differential (K% minus BB%, or K-BB) than Kershaw.
• Regard: Kershaw (28.6% K, 6.6% BB) versus Greinke (31.1% K, 5.3% BB).
• By way of an FYI, let it be known that Curt Schilling’s 2002 mark (31.1% K, 3.2% BB) is the best in the FanGraphs Era.
• Which, that’s the era right after Postmodernism and right before Hammer Time.
• Um, Neo-Hammer Time, I mean.

Watch: Fox Sports Wisconsin. (Although, listen to Bob Uecker and Cory Provus call the game on WTMJ, if possible.)

Also Playing
Here’s the complete schedule for all of today’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one. The average NERD Game Score for today is 5.8.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP	Home		Time
Jair Jurrjens	ATL	5	6	4	3	3	WAS	Livan Hernandez	19:05
Carlos Zambrano	CHN	3	1	3	6	3	PIT	Paul Maholm	19:05
Josh Tomlin	CLE	6	9	6	5	4	BOS	John Lackey	19:10
Javier Vazquez	FL	4	5	4	6	2	NYN	Mike Pelfrey	19:10
Bronson Arroyo	CIN	4	7	6	4	8	HOU	Bud Norris	20:05
CC Sabathia	NYA	9	5	8	6	8	CHA	Jake Peavy	20:10
Chris Carpenter	STL	8	8	9	8	10	MIL	Zack Greinke	20:10
Cole Hamels	PHI	10	3	7	4	6	COL	Jhoulys Chacin	20:40
Clayton Kershaw	LAN	10	3	8	4	9	SD	Cory Luebke	22:05
Trevor Cahill	OAK	5	1	4	1	5	SEA	Blake Beavan	22:10
Ian Kennedy	AZ	7	8	7	5	6	SF	Matt Cain	22:15

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.
Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire.