One Night Only: Game Previews for July 29th
Roy Halladay and Charlie Morton face each other tonight.
Featured Game
Pittsburgh (7) at Philadelphia (3) | 19:05 ET
• The attentive reader will be familiar with how Pirate Charlie Morton has co-opted entirely Roy Halladay’s delivery this season.
• The less attentive reader can use this time to read a note by Ken Rosenthal about how Charlie Morton has co-opted entirely Roy Halladay’s delivery this season.
• Or watch these YouTube videos.
• While that’s happening, the attentive reader can use his extra time to play Legos! Yay!
• Afterwards, we’ll all watch this Pirates-Phillies game, which marks the first time these pitchers will have met since Morton co-opted entirely Roy Halladay’s delivery.
Watch: ROOT (i.e. the Pittsburgh feed). Colorman Bob Walk is pretty responsible with most of his commentary, from what I’ve seen.
Also Playing
Here’s the complete schedule for all of today’s games, with our very proprietary watchability (NERD) scores for each one. The average NERD Game Score for today is 5.4.
| Away | SP | Tm. | Gm. | Tm. | SP | Home | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Chatwood | LAA | 2 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 5 | DET | Rick Porcello | 19:05 |
| Jeremy Guthrie | BAL | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | NYA | A.J. Burnett | 19:05 |
| Jeff Francis | KC | 4 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 7 | CLE | Carlos Carrasco | 19:05 |
| Dillon Gee | NYN | 4 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 10 | WAS | Chien-Ming Wang* | 19:05 |
| Charlie Morton | PIT | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 10 | PHI | Roy Halladay | 19:05 |
| Alexi Ogando | TEX | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | TOR | Brett Cecil | 19:07 |
| Ryan Vogelsong | SF | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 5 | CIN | Dontrelle Willis* | 19:10 |
| Clay Hensley* | FL | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | ATL | Brandon Beachy | 19:35 |
| Tim Wakefield | BOS | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 5 | CHA | Gavin Floyd | 20:10 |
| Jordan Lyles | HOU | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 3 | MIL | Randy Wolf | 20:10 |
| Matt Garza | CHN | 10 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 8 | STL | Edwin Jackson | 20:15 |
| Jason Hammel | COL | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | SD | Tim Stauffer | 22:05 |
| Francisco Liriano | MIN | 4 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 | OAK | Gio Gonzalez | 22:05 |
| Josh Collmenter | AZ | 6 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 6 | LAN | Ted Lilly | 22:10 |
| Jeff Niemann | TB | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | SEA | Erik Bedard | 22:10 |
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.
Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire.
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Tim Wakefield’s a seven? Do knuckleballers get a bonus? If they don’t, they should.
They do get a bonus
They get a substantial bonus, in fact: % of knucklers thrown [times] 5.0.
That’s big!