One Night Only: Game Previews for August 2nd
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 |
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.
That’s some pitching matchup out there in Colorado tonight.