MLB: What to watch on July 21, 2025

Here are today's MLB games, ordered by watchability, based on how interesting the teams and starting pitchers look. Higher is better.

This is inspired by Carson Cistulli's NERD scores at FanGraphs. (I'll write a bit about the details of my implementation on GitHub soon, and then link to that from this intro.)

Score	Time (EDT)	Visitors	Score	Home	Score	Starter (V)	Score	Starter (H)	Score
14.7	9:40p	Milwaukee Brewers	7.5	Seattle Mariners	5.6	Brandon Woodruff	No data	George Kirby	8.1
14.3	6:40p	Detroit Tigers	8.6	Pittsburgh Pirates	2.9	Jack Flaherty	5.9	Paul Skenes	11.2
12.9	7:07p	New York Yankees	8.3	Toronto Blue Jays	6.7	Carlos Rodón	6.2	Kevin Gausman	4.7
12.3	6:45p	Boston Red Sox	6.7	Philadelphia Phillies	5.9	Walker Buehler	1.8	Zack Wheeler	10.2
12.3	8:05p	Kansas City Royals	2.9	Chicago Cubs	9.3	Noah Cameron	6.2	Ryan Brasier	No data
11.1	9:40p	Houston Astros	4.6	Arizona Diamondbacks	7.6	Colton Gordon	5.9	Zac Gallen	4.0
10.5	10:10p	Minnesota Twins	3.5	Los Angeles Dodgers	6.7	David Festa	5.4	Shohei Ohtani	No data
10.4	8:05p	Athletics	7.6	Texas Rangers	5.8	Jacob Lopez	4.2	Jack Leiter	3.3
8.8	7:15p	San Francisco Giants	1.9	Atlanta Braves	5.8	Hayden Birdsong	4.5	Bryce Elder	5.5
8.2	7:35p	Chicago White Sox	2.5	Tampa Bay Rays	6.2	Sean Burke	1.5	Shane Baz	6.2
8.2	7:10p	Los Angeles Angels	3.0	New York Mets	8.3	Tyler Anderson	1.6	Kodai Senga	3.5
7.0	6:40p	San Diego Padres	2.2	Miami Marlins	6.1	Randy Vásquez	-2.1	Eury Pérez	7.9
6.5	6:40p	Baltimore Orioles	2.4	Cleveland Guardians	5.1	Tomoyuki Sugano	1.5	Tanner Bibee	4.0
5.7	6:45p	Cincinnati Reds	3.8	Washington Nationals	2.0	Brady Singer	3.4	Jake Irvin	2.1
5.4	8:40p	St. Louis Cardinals	4.8	Colorado Rockies	2.5	Michael McGreevy	4.5	Austin Gomber	-1.1

Notes:

Pitcher 'no data': Pitchers only have a pNERD score once they've started at least one game and have at least 20 innings pitched. I might also show 'no data' when I'm not correctly linking the schedule information with a pitcher's stats, like if the names don't match (I have an open issue to improve this).