One Night Only: Game Previews for August 4th

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

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.