One Night Only: Game Previews for August 7th


An elderly, and even more dominant, Zack Greinke.

Featured Game
Milwaukee (7) at Houston (4) | 14:05 ET
If Zack Greinke’s (10) strikeout rate continues at the pace he’s established so far over the course of his career, he’ll strike out every batter he faces in the year 2055.

Audio Feed: Brewers Radio.

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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 5.6.

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Away SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP Home Time
Mike Minor ATL 7 6 5 6 3 NYN Dillon Gee 13:10
Jaime Garcia STL 9 8 6 6 3 FL Javier Vazquez 13:10
Mat Latos SD 8 5 5 4 3 PIT Kevin Correia 13:35
Ricky Romero TOR 6 6 6 4 6 BAL Alfredo Simon 13:35
Trevor Cahill OAK 5 2 6 4 10 TB David Price 13:40
Zack Greinke MIL 10 7 8 4 7 HOU Bud Norris 14:05
Jake Peavy CHA 8 4 6 2 5 MIN Brian Duensing 14:10
Max Scherzer DET 6 4 4 7 1 KC Bruce Chen 14:10
Bronson Arroyo CIN 4 5 4 1 4 CHN Randy Wells 14:20
John Lannan WAS 4 4 3 4 2 COL Aaron Cook 15:10
Felix Hernandez SEA 8 1 6 8 6 LAA Ervin Santana 15:35
Roy Oswalt PHI 4 3 6 7 8 SF Tim Lincecum 16:05
Clayton Kershaw LAN 10 3 8 8 7 AZ Ian Kennedy 16:10
Josh Tomlin CLE 6 9 6 9 4 TEX Colby Lewis 20:05
Freddy Garcia NYA 4 6 6 5 7 BOS Josh Beckett 20:05

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.





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lolololool
14 years ago

I’m surprised Romero is only a 6… hes been one of the best leftys in the league this season and is King almost 8 per 9…

eric
14 years ago
Reply to  lolololool

do you know how pNERD is calculated?