One Night Only: Game Previews for August 20th

This stuff is probably less impressive than Arizona débutante Wade Miley’s.

Featured Game
Arizona (9) at Atlanta (4) | 19:10 ET
• Left-hander Wade Miley, 24, makes his major-league debut tonight in place of the recently acquired — and even more recently injured — Jason Marquis.
• Which, one weird thing about Miley is how he posted considerably better numbers at Triple-A this season (54.1 IP, 9.28 K/9, 2.65 BB/9, 0.66 HR/9, 2.98 FIP) than he did at Double-A (75.1 IP, 5.50 K/9, 3.35 BB/9, 0.72 HR/9, 4.25 FIP).
• This, despite the fact that both the league and the park in which the Double-A Mobile BayBears play is pitcher-friendlier than the equivalents for Triple-A Reno.
• In his scouting report on Miley from back in February, Prospect Maven Marc Hulet suggests that Miley’s strikeout numbers have generally lagged behind his stuff.
• And by “stuff” I’m assuming Hulet means his pitches.

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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 5.4.

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
Dontrelle Willis	CIN	6	5	4	5	5	PIT	Charlie Morton	16:10
Ted Lilly	LAN	6	4	4	6	4	COL	Esmil Rogers	16:10
Randy Wolf	MIL	2	8	4	5	6	NYN	Chris Capuano	16:10
Edwin Jackson	STL	8	3	8	2	10	CHN	Matt Garza	16:10
David Huff*	CLE	5	6	9	2	5	DET	Doug Fister	19:05
Kyle Kendrick	PHI	2	3	2	4	4	WAS	John Lannan	19:05
Mad. Bumgarner	SF	10	3	9	3	7	HOU	Jordan Lyles	19:05
Wade Miley*	AZ	10	9	10	4	9	ATL	Brandon Beachy	19:10
Tim Wakefield	BOS	8	10	7	10	7	KC	Felipe Paulino	19:10
A.J. Burnett	NYA	6	10	4	0	4	MIN	Francisco Liriano	19:10
Charlie Furbush	SEA	3	0	3	6	4	TB	Jeremy Hellickson	19:10
Alexi Ogando	TEX	7	8	8	3	7	CHA	John Danks	19:10
Clay Hensley	FL	0	8	2	6	4	SD	Aaron Harang	20:35
Tommy Hunter*	BAL	3	2	3	5	3	LAA	Joel Pineiro	21:05
Henderson Alvarez*	TOR	6	7	4	1	6	OAK	Gio Gonzalez	21:05

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.