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.*

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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.

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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.

Transcendent photo courtesy Jason’s House N Pet Sitting.