One Night Only: Game Previews for August 3rd

The Boston offense is indefatigable, whatever that word means.

Featured Game
Cleveland (9) at Boston (7) | 19:10 ET
• So, there are 25 qualified batters currently sporting a 140 wRC+ or better and five of them, turns out, are on the Red Sox.
• To wit: Adrian Gonzalez (166), Dustin Pedroia (151), Jacoby Ellsbury (146), David Ortiz (145), and Kevin Youkilis (143).
• Those also happened to be batters No. 1-5 (although not in that order) in the Red Sox lineup yesterday in the first game of this series — which, that doesn’t seem fair.
• But you know another thing that’s not fair? Life.
• And a third? My grandfather’s skin after standing out in the sun for, like, 30 seconds.*

*Denotes comedy joke.

Watch: NESN.

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 5.2.

Away		SP	Tm.	Gm.	Tm.	SP	Home		Time
Brandon Beachy	ATL	8	6	6	4	5	WAS	Chien-Ming Wang*	13:05
Edwin Jackson	STL	8	8	6	8	2	MIL	Randy Wolf	14:10
Roy Halladay	PHI	10	3	5	4	2	COL	Jason Hammel	15:10
Gio Gonzalez	OAK	6	1	4	1	5	SEA	Charlie Furbush*	15:40
Jason Marquis	AZ	4	7	5	6	4	SF	Ryan Vogelsong	15:45
Matt Garza	CHN	10	1	6	5	4	PIT	Charlie Morton	19:05
Matt Harrison	TEX	5	8	5	4	5	DET	Doug Fister	19:05
Carlos Carrasco	CLE	6	9	7	5	7	BOS	Tim Wakefield	19:10
Clay Hensley*	FL	5	6	5	6	3	NYN	Dillon Gee	19:10
Carlos Villanueva	TOR	3	6	5	4	8	TB	James Shields	19:10
Dontrelle Willis	CIN	5	7	6	4	7	HOU	Jordan Lyles	20:05
Jeremy Guthrie	BAL	3	3	4	7	4	KC	Luke Hochevar	20:10
A.J. Burnett	NYA	5	6	5	4	5	CHA	Gavin Floyd	20:10
Ted Lilly	LAN	6	3	5	4	5	SD	Tim Stauffer	22:05
Scott Baker	MIN	7	2	5	7	3	LAA	Joel Pineiro	22:05

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.

GIF courtesy of the defunkt Walkoff Walk.