There are plenty of opportunities to watch some live baseball this working week, with four of five days offering at least one MLB game staring before midnight UK time.

The week begins with a game from Citi Field as Bartolo Colon takes to the mound – and, just as importantly from a viewer’s perspective, to the batter’s box – against the Chicago Cubs.

After a fallow evening on Tuesday, there are four early games on Wednesday in which Oakland and Seattle are in action against NL East teams, whilst Toronto and Milwaukee meet in an important series between two teams looking to make the playoffs.

The headline story on Thursday will come from Tropicana Field when David Price visits with his new team, the Detroit Tigers, just a few weeks after being traded away by the Rays.

The working week then ends, or perhaps we should say the weekend begins, with a day-game from Wrigley Field as the Cubs host the Orioles in an Interleague match-up.

All times are in BST.

Monday 18 August

17:10. Chicago Cubs at NY Mets (Hendricks - Colon) *BT Sport2

Tuesday 19 August

No early games

Wednesday 20 August

17:40. Texas at Miami (Martinez - Eovaldi) *ESPN
18:05. Seattle at Philadelphia (Paxton - Hamels)
19:10. Toronto at Milwaukee (Dickey - Nelson)
20:35. NY Mets at Oakland (Wheeler - Samardzija) *ESPN

Thursday 21 August

18:05. Houston at NY Yankees (Keuchel - McCarthy)
18:10. Cleveland at Minnesota (Kluber - Hughes)
18:10. Detroit at Tampa Bay (Price - Cobb) *ESPN
21:05. Arizona at Washington (Miley - Gonzalez) *ESPN

Friday 22 August

19:20. Baltimore at Chicago Cubs (Gausman - Arrieta)

All of these games are available to watch live via the MLB.TV subscription at MLB.com. The early games being shown on BT Sport or ESPN are highlighted above. The complete schedule for this week’s MLB games can be found on MLB.com