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.

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.





Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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Mike
12 years ago

Having grown up in the valley, and having lived in San Diego during college, there is no way I would ever choose a San Diego broadcast over the Giants on either the TV or the radio….I don’t care much for either team, but the Giants foursome (Miller, Fleming, Kuiper, and Krukow) is quite possibly the best group in baseball…