One Night Only: Game Previews for August 9th

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

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.