One Night Only: Game Previews for August 5th
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Featured Game
Cleveland (9) at Texas (8) | 20:05 ET
• Tonight marks Ubaldo Jimenez’s (7) debut for the Cleveland Indians, after they (i.e. Cleveland) traded four minor leaguers (including top-100 prospects Drew Pomeranz and Alex White) to Colorado for the right-hander.
• If you’re the sort of person who’d care to read analysis about this sort of thing, you can do that at this very site.
• Regard: work by Eric Seidman, Steve Slowinski, and FanGraphs’ most handsome author.
• If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t care to read, we can dictate these same works to you over the phone.
• Just call 1-900-Hot-Nerd. Nerds are standing by.*
*Don’t do that and, no, they’re not.
Watch: Texas Television (with the radio call by KESN’s Eric Nadel, 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 5.5.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike Leake | CIN | 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 | CHN | Ryan Dempster | 14:20 |
| Aaron Harang | SD | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | PIT | Jeff Karstens | 19:05 |
| Brad Mills* | TOR | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | BAL | Tommy Hunter* | 19:05 |
| Tim Hudson | ATL | 6 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 9 | NYN | R.A. Dickey | 19:10 |
| Bartolo Colon | NYA | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 7 | BOS | Jon Lester | 19:10 |
| Guillermo Moscoso | OAK | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | TB | Jeff Niemann | 19:10 |
| Jake Westbrook | STL | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 9 | FL | Anibal Sanchez | 19:10 |
| Ubaldo Jimenez | CLE | 7 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 7 | TEX | Derek Holland | 20:05 |
| Yovani Gallardo | MIL | 7 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | HOU | J.A. Happ | 20:05 |
| Mark Buehrle | CHA | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | MIN | Nick Blackburn | 20:10 |
| Rick Porcello | DET | 5 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 9 | KC | Felipe Paulino | 20:10 |
| Jordan Zimmermann | WAS | 8 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 9 | COL | Juan Nicasio | 20:40 |
| Chad Billingsley | LAN | 6 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 5 | AZ | Josh Collmenter | 21:40 |
| Jason Vargas | SEA | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | LAA | Jered Weaver | 22:05 |
| Vance Worley | PHI | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | SF | Jonathan Sanchez | 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.
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Brett Lawrie debut tonight!!1!!!1111!
Actually, that — combined with it being Tommy Hunter’s debut for his new team and Brad Mills’ second start of the season — certainly makes that game more interesting.
Watch? I’d guess Toronto TV with Jays’ radio, if possible.