One Night Only: Game Previews for August 4th

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August 4, 2011


Curd!

Featured Game
Philadelphia (3) at San Francisco (6) | 22:15 ET
• Among the things I’d either (a) known and forgotten or (b) never known in the first place, one of them is that Madison Bumgarner (10), owner of a 3.22 SIERA and 3.15 xFIP and 83 xFIP-, is only 21 years old.
• Another one is to use the second person plural (vous, as opposed to tu) when speaking to strangers in France.
• Of course, the exact consequences of neglecting to do so aren’t entirely clear.
• Then again, neither are the consequences of most things.
• Like eating fried cheese curds, for example. Or any kind of cheese curd, for also example.

Watch: Comcast SportsNet Bay Area — with Jon Miller’s gold-embossed radio call, if possible.

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
Brett Cecil TOR 4 6 3 4 0 TB Wade Davis 12:10
Alexi Ogando TEX 6 8 5 4 2 DET Brad Penny 13:05
Rodrigo Lopez CHN 2 1 3 5 4 PIT James McDonald 19:05
Justin Masterson CLE 7 9 7 5 6 BOS Erik Bedard 19:10
Kyle Lohse STL 4 8 7 6 9 FL Anibal Sanchez 19:10
Zach Britton BAL 6 3 5 7 4 KC Jeff Francis 20:10
Ivan Nova NYA 4 6 4 4 4 CHA Philip Humber 20:10
Ross Detwiler* WAS 5 4 4 4 3 COL Esmil Rogers 20:40
Francisco Liriano MIN 4 2 5 7 7 LAA Dan Haren 22:05
Cliff Lee PHI 10 3 9 6 10 SF Mad. Bumgarner 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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buddy
14 years ago

You’re mad, Bumgarner. You’re a loose cannon. I’ll have your badge,

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