One Night Only: Game Previews for August 8th

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August 8, 2011


This is probably a Houston Astro.

Featured Game
Houston (4) at Arizona (8) | 21:40 ET
• NERD suggests, largely on the strength of Roy Halladay’s (10) excellence, that one would do well to watch Philadelphia-Los Angeles tonight.
• What NERD doesn’t know is the effect that watching the Dodgers can have on serotonin levels in humans.
• Another thing that NERD doesn’t know is how the Houston Astros are essentially a different team than — well, than a week ago, about.
• By my count, four of the Houston starters from Sunday’s game had made their major-league debut within the past three weeks.
• To wit: Jose Altuve (July 20th), J.D. Martinez (July 30th), Jimmy Paredes (August 1st), Jack Shuck (August 5th).

Audio Feed: Astros Television. (I’ve actually never watched their broadcast before, but some readers have suggested that Bill Brown and Jim Deshaies are above average.)

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 4.9.

Away SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP Home Time
John Danks CHA 6 4 4 3 3 BAL Jeremy Guthrie 19:05
Derek Lowe ATL 6 6 4 6 0 FL Brad Hand 19:10
Tim Wakefield BOS 7 5 6 2 7 MIN Scott Baker 19:10
Jason Hammel COL 2 4 4 5 5 CIN Homer Bailey 19:10
Luke Hochevar KC 4 7 4 4 3 TB Jeremy Hellickson 19:10
Tim Stauffer SD 5 5 4 5 2 NYN Mike Pelfrey 19:10
Charlie Furbush* SEA 5 1 5 8 5 TEX Matt Harrison 20:05
Chien-Ming Wang* WAS 5 4 6 1 10 CHN Matt Garza 20:05
Wandy Rodriguez HOU 5 4 6 8 8 AZ Daniel Hudson 21:40
Roy Halladay PHI 10 3 7 3 6 LAN Hiroki Kuroda 22:10
Charlie Morton PIT 4 4 4 6 4 SF Ryan Vogelsong 22:15

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* = 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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CircleChange11
14 years ago

I can’t watch the Houston LASTros (<— patent pending).

As StL was sweeping Florida, I was hoping for some help from HOU against MIL.

Yeah, HOU may be a different team in terms of player names, but they're the same in terms of quality.

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chuckb
14 years ago
Reply to  CircleChange11

I think that the LASTros nickname was used many years ago when the Astros were so bad.

Perhaps you should try DISAstros. Considering where Drayton McLane has taken that team, it’s fitting.

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Carson CistulliMember
14 years ago
Reply to  CircleChange11

5-0 Houston in first!

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