One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for May 24th

Arizona’s Josh Collmenter is among the league leaders in Capital-J Joy.

This edition of One Night Only contains:

1. Expanded previews for three games: Arizona at Colorado, Boston at Cleveland, and Toronto at New York (AL),

2. Pitcher and Team NERD scores for every one of tonight’s games.

3. More images than usual, so’s to distract the reader from a lack of actual content.

Arizona (10) at Colorado (7) | ca. 19:00 ET
Starting Pitchers
Diamondbacks: Josh Collmenter (N/A)
Two Starts: 12.0 IP, 4 K, 0 BB, 30.6% GB, ca. 2.30 FIP

Rockies: Jhoulys Chacin (7)
60.0 IP, 7.80 K/9, 3.30 BB/9, .236 BABIP, 59.2% GB, 13.3% HR/FB, 3.18 xFIP, 86 xFIP-

A Brief Programming Note
This is the second game of a doubleheader, the first leg of which begins at 15:10 ET.

Some Brief Other Kind of Notes
• Collmenter’s FIP up there uses 3.00 as the constant, is one thing to mention.
• Which, that’s lower than in past years, but also probably appropriate for the current run environment.
• Another thing is, because of his low ground-ball rate, Collmenter’s xFIP over those two starts would probably be something like 4.00.
• Still, it’s hard to argue that Josh Collmenter is anything less than the manifestation of Joy.
• Capital-J Joy, I tell you!

Boston (5) at Cleveland (10) | 19:05 ET
Starting Pitchers
Red Sox: Josh Beckett (7)
57.1 IP, 8.16 K/9, 2.67 BB/9, .224 BABIP, 41.2% GB, 4.9% HR/FB, 3.25 xFIP, 83 xFIP-

Indians: Fausto Carmona (6)
64.1 IP, 5.60 K/9, 2.66 BB/9, .265 BABIP, 58.8% GB, 11.3% HR/FB, 3.79 xFIP, 97 xFIP-

A Graph of Cleveland’s Attendance This Season
You read One Night Only and all you got was this crappy graph:

Data courtesy Baseball Reference.

Toronto (8) at New York Americans (7) | 19:05 ET
Starting Pitchers
Blue Jays: Ricky Romero (8)
58.0 IP, 8.84 K/9, 3.10 BB/9, .257 BABIP, 55.8% GB, 14.0% HR/FB, 3.01 xFIP, 77 xFIP-

Yankees: CC Sabathia (7)
67.2 IP, 7.85 K/9, 2.79 BB/9, .314 BABIP, 48.5% GB, 5.0% HR/FB, 3.24 xFIP, 83 xFIP-

What Happened Yesterday
Yesterday, Eric Simon of Amazin Avenue conducted a totally scientic and unbiased poll.

What Was in the Poll
These four photographs:

What Else Was in It
This question: Which Yankee has the stupidest face?

Who’s Winning, As of Press Time
Joba Chamberlain, with 42% of the vote.

A Choice Comment Regarding Mark Teixeira from that Post
He looks like a moronic horse which has just been asked to explain the Bernoulli effect without using the word “neigh.” (Link.)

Also Playing
These games are very likely playing at some kind of sporty channel near you.

pNERD = Pitcher NERD
tNERD = Team NERD
Game = Time and Average NERD for Game
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD of 5 (or 10 for debuts)