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.