One Night Only: Game Previews for August 9th

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August 9, 2011


The author is not a wizard, turns out.

Featured Game
Milwaukee (8) at St. Louis (7) | 20:15 ET
• Since July 12th, when I made the case that Milwaukee could improve itself most efficiently and cheaply by trading for a shortstop, Yuniesky Betancourt has slashed .388/.405/.575 (.412 BABIP) in 84 plate appearances — this, after slashing .237/.255/.342 (.242 BABIP) in the 321 PAs up till that point.
• Coinicidence? Yes, obviously.
• I promise you, if I possessed the ability to alter world events, I’d use it almost exclusively for personal gain.
• Like, to get big muscles, probably.
• Not on my body, I mean — just to have around the house.

Audio Feed: Brewers Radio.

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 5.8.

Away SP Tm. Gm. Tm. SP Home Time
Dan Haren LAA 7 8 6 6 5 NYA A.J. Burnett 19:05
Gavin Floyd CHA 5 5 4 3 3 BAL Jo-Jo Reyes 19:05
Doug Fister DET 4 5 6 9 7 CLE Justin Masterson 19:05
Rich Harden OAK 7 2 5 5 4 TOR Brett Cecil 19:07
Brandon Beachy ATL 8 5 6 6 5 FL Clay Hensley* 19:10
Esmil Rogers COL 4 4 5 5 5 CIN Dontrelle Willis 19:10
Jeff Francis KC 4 7 6 5 8 TB James Shields 19:10
Wade LeBlanc SD 3 5 5 5 6 NYN Chris Capuano 19:10
Michael Pineda SEA 10 1 7 7 7 TEX Alexi Ogando 20:05
Chien-Ming Wang* WAS 5 3 6 2 10 CHN Matt Garza 20:05
Erik Bedard BOS 7 7 5 2 4 MIN Francisco Liriano 20:10
Shaun Marcum MIL 6 8 7 7 8 STL Edwin Jackson 20:15
Jordan Lyles HOU 7 3 6 9 4 AZ Jason Marquis 21:40
Cliff Lee PHI 10 3 7 4 6 LAN Ted Lilly 22:10
James McDonald PIT 4 4 7 6 10 SF Madison Bumgarner 22:15

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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.





 

Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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AustinRHL
14 years ago

I find it shocking that Ted Lilly has a NERD of 6 this season.

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Carson CistulliMember
14 years ago
Reply to  AustinRHL

He’s getting a some help right now from bad luck, so he’s a 5, basically.

To his credit, Lilly throws A LOT of strikes — 67.9%. That places him fourth in the majors (among pitchers with >20 IP starting) behind only Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay, and Scott Baker.

He’s not feature material, necessarily, but if he’s one starter in an otherwise interesting game, he won’t ruin it.

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