One Night Only: Game Previews for August 2nd

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.
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* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD at discretion of very handsome author.

11 Comments

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don

14 years ago

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

CircleChange11

Is my math right?”

ARZ (Hudson) 8 (8) + SFG (Lincecum) 5 (8) = 29 “points”.

STL (Garcia) 8 (8) + MIL (Marcum) 8 (6) = 30 “points”.

Is this how the featured game is selected?

Nevermind … read that SP score is 3X the team score.

So, it would be ARZ-SFG = 8+24+5+24 = 61
STL-MIL = 8+24+8+18 = 58

I’ll definitely take the star power & pitching in the StL-MIL game over ARZ-SFG.

Carson CistulliMember

Reply to CircleChange11

Unfortunately, if I accept that STL-MIL is the more watchable game, my entire sense of self-worth will crumble. Those are some pretty high stakes.

Dreamin

Star power I guess, but better pitching?

Hudson + Lincecum > Garcia + Marcum, and it’s not that close.

Jamie

I forget,

Why do the best teams in baseball have low NERD scores? not fun to watch teams win?

ngranered

Reply to Jamie

More often than not, when you watch a baseball game, there will be a winner, regardless of the quality of the teams playing.

buddy

Teams that are in a tight playoff race get bonuses, so the best teams that are already “in” don’t get those bonuses. Plus, there’s an age component and the youngest teams are probably not the best teams.

Reply to buddy

Also PHI gets a huge portion of their value from their starting pitchers, which are not included in team NERD.

herve houchoua

evolutions PNERD pour les matchs du soir :
……………………………………………………….

SCHERZER / DET / 6 @ 7
BECKETT / BOS / 6 @ 7

LOWE / ATL / 5 @ 6
DANKS / CWS / 5 @ 6
SIMON / BAL / 5 @ 6

HERNANDEZ feliz / SEA / 9 @ 8

HARDEN / OAK / 7 @ 6

KENDRICK / PHI / 1 @ 2

HUGUES / NYY / 0 @ 1

LANNAN / WASH / 4 @3
COOK / COL / 2 @ 1

……………………………………………………….

BAILEY / CIN / 5 @ 6 !!!!????? Dernier match : 4 ip hits 12 er 9…..
………………………………………………………..

SDP = STAUFFER ou LATOS ?

lolololool

Romero vs. Price???

2 of the best lefties in the AL should be fun.

Duane Kuiper

Are you suggesting the Mark Grace has a manlier voice than my partner? How dare you, Sir!