One Night Only: Game Previews for August 2nd

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August 2, 2011


What the author talks about when he talks about Daniel Hudson.

Featured Game
Arizona (8) at San Francisco (5) | 22:15 ET
• The very slingy Daniel Hudson (8) faces the very Cy Young-y Tim Lincecum (also 8).
• After last night’s contest between these same teams, either one or three games separate them in the standings.
• I don’t know, though, because I wrote these words on Monday afternoon.
• Another thing I did on Monday was to look up new Arizona first baseman Paul Goldschmidt’s line at Double-A Mobile.
• Which, allow me to share that with you post-haste: 457 PA, .306/.435/.626 (.331 BABIP), 130 wOBA+.

Watch: Both Fox Sports Arizona and Comcast SportsNet Bay Area — to decide whose voice is man-ier, Mark Grace’s or Mike Krukow’s.

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 5.1.

Away SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP Home Time
Derek Lowe ATL 6 6 5 3 3 WAS John Lannan 19:05
Randy Wells CHN 4 1 4 6 3 PIT Kevin Correia 19:05
Colby Lewis TEX 4 8 6 5 7 DET Max Scherzer 19:05
David Huff* CLE 5 9 6 5 7 BOS Josh Beckett 19:10
Brad Hand FL 0 5 4 6 6 NYN Chris Capuano 19:10
Ricky Romero TOR 6 5 7 4 10 TB David Price 19:10
Homer Bailey CIN 6 7 6 4 5 HOU Wandy Rodriguez 20:05
Alfredo Simon BAL 6 3 4 7 2 KC Bruce Chen 20:10
Phil Hughes NYA 1 5 4 6 6 CHA John Danks 20:10
Jaime Garcia STL 8 8 7 8 6 MIL Shaun Marcum 20:10
Kyle Kendrick PHI 2 3 2 4 1 COL Aaron Cook 20:40
Hiroki Kuroda LAN 6 3 5 4 5 SD Tim Stauffer 22:05
Brian Duensing MIN 5 2 5 7 6 LAA Ervin Santana 22:05
Rich Harden OAK 6 1 6 1 8 SEA Felix Hernandez 22:10
Daniel Hudson AZ 8 8 8 5 8 SF Tim Lincecum 22:15

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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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don
14 years ago

That’s some pitching matchup out there in Colorado tonight.

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