One Night Only: Game Previews for July 29th

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July 29, 2011


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

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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.
Pitching probables and game times aggregated from MLB.com and RotoWire.





 

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11 Comments
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MikeS
15 years ago

Tim Wakefield’s a seven? Do knuckleballers get a bonus? If they don’t, they should.

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Snoth
15 years ago
Reply to  MikeS

They do get a bonus

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Carson CistulliMember
15 years ago
Reply to  MikeS

They get a substantial bonus, in fact: % of knucklers thrown [times] 5.0.

That’s big!

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rudleMember since 2021
15 years ago

Has anyone else discovered the “natural sound” setting on their playstation? Typically I mute the commentators anyway but it’s really nice to be able to hear the crack of the bat. Sometimes you overhear conversations between players as well.

If you want to try it out, select the home video feed and switch the audio in the options menu (triangle).

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Padman Jones
15 years ago
Reply to  rudle

Is that PS-only?

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rudleMember since 2021
15 years ago
Reply to  Padman Jones

I’ve only seen it on the PS3, but it might be included with all the snazzy features that NexDef provides. I know NexDef allows you to listen to the alternate radio streams for sure.

It’s really a great feature, it should be available everywhere.

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herve houchoua
15 years ago

A NOTER

……………………………………………………..

NIEMANN ( tb ) 3 @ 4 @ 5…………………c est bon ca !

STAUFFER ( sdp ) 7 @ 6 @ 5……………….ca c est pas bon !

CHATWOOD ( laa ) 0 @ 1 @ 2 et today 2…………bientot le pNERD 3 ?

GUTHRIE ( bal ) 5 @ 4 @ 3……..ou vend t on un bras de rechange ?

BURNETT ( nyy ) 3 @ 5…………..l odeur des play offs peut etre ?

GEE ( nym ) 6 @ 4 et today 4……….va vers le 3 a mon avis…

WILLIS ( cin ) 7* @ 5*……………pourquoi 7* ?

BEACHY ( atl ) 10 @ 9 @ 8……….tomorrow 7 ?

WAKEFIELD ( bos ) 5 @ 6 @ 7……….pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff

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buddy
15 years ago

Dontrelle should get an 11.

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BillWallace
15 years ago
Reply to  buddy

This thing doesn’t go up to 11.

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Vin
15 years ago

Chien-Ming Wang, back from the dead!

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hoopsvader
15 years ago

Carrasco should be a 1

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