One Night Only: Game Previews for August 23rd

What Matt Cain would look like with just a single, metal leg. And no head. Or arms.

Featured Game
San Diego (6) at San Francisco (3) | 22:15 ET
• Matt Cain has continued his trend this year of inducing lower-than-average BABIPs (.267) and HR/FBs (3.6%).
• He’s also, this season, posting what would be a career best strikeout differential (i.e. K%-BB%) of 13.8%.
• So, that’s in terms of Matt Cain.
• In terms of the Giants, who’re a game behind Arizona now, here’re their playoffs odds per Cool Standings and Our Mortal Enemy, respectively: 38.8% and 77.4%.
• And here are their odds per my wife, who’s watched precisely three innings of baseball this year: 47.0%.

MLB.TV Audio Feed: Giants Radio.

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 5.8.

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
Blake Beavan	SEA	3	0	5	6	7	CLE	Justin Masterson	13:05
Ian Kennedy	AZ	6	9	8	4	8	WAS	Jordan Zimmermann	19:05
Marco Estrada	MIL	6	7	5	5	5	PIT	Ross Ohlendorf*	19:05
Jonathon Niese	NYN	9	5	5	3	5	PHI	Vance Worley	19:05
Brandon McCarthy	OAK	7	0	5	10	6	NYA	Bartolo Colon	19:05
Anthony Vasquez*	SEA	10	0	8	6	8	CLE	Zachary McAllister*	19:05
Bruce Chen	KC	1	10	5	6	10	TOR	Brandon Morrow	19:07
Johnny Cueto	CIN	6	5	5	8	7	FL	Ricky Nolasco	19:10
Brad Penny	DET	1	2	6	7	9	TB	David Price	19:10
Mike Minor	ATL	9	5	4	4	1	CHN	Casey Coleman	20:05
John Lackey	BOS	4	10	5	8	4	TEX	Colby Lewis	20:05
Alfredo Simon	BAL	5	2	3	0	5	MIN	Brian Duensing	20:10
Clayton Kershaw	LAN	10	4	5	3	3	STL	Kyle Lohse	20:15
Bud Norris	HOU	7	3	6	6	8	COL	Alex White*	20:40
Mark Buehrle	CHA	3	3	8	5	6	LAA	Ervin Santana	22:05
Mat Latos	SD	8	6	10	3	7	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.