Is this the Year of the Pitcher?
That’s the question being asked (again) by many baseball fans at the moment and Ervin Santana and Jason Hammel almost gave two more reasons to believe in the idea yesterday. Both took no-hitters into the seventh inning and while their bids faltered there, they ended up with one-hitters and gave their teams a great platform to add another win to their tallies.
As per normal on a Sunday, all but one of the scheduled MLB games will start before midnight UK time and, who knows, we might just see another no-hit bid develop over the course of the evening.
All times are in BST.
18.05. Pittsburgh at Cleveland (Lincoln – Gomez)
18.05. Colorado at Detroit (Guthrie – Scherzer)
18.07. Philadelphia at Toronto (Kendrick – Cecil)
18.10. Cincinnati at NY Mets (Cueto – Young)
18.35. Baltimore at Atlanta (Chen – Delgado)
18.35. NY Yankees at Washington (Nova – Jackson) *ESPN America
18.40. Miami at Tampa Bay (Johnson – Cobb)
19.10. Milwaukee at Minnesota (Greinke – Blackburn)
19.15. Kansas City at St. Louis (Mendoza – Wainwright)
20.05. Houston at Texas (Keuchel – Lewis)
20.35. Arizona at LA Angels (Kennedy – Richards)
21.05. San Diego at Oakland (Richard – Colon)
21.10. San Francisco at Seattle (Bumgarner – Hernandez)
21.10. Chicago White Sox at LA Dodgers (Quintana – Capuano)
1.00. a.m. Boston at Chicago Cubs (Morales – Maholm) *ESPN America
All of these games are available to watch live via the MLB.TV subscription at MLB.com. ESPN America not only has two MLB games tonight, but also Game Five of the College World Series in between them.