May starts off in a slightly disappointing fashion this working week with only Thursday and Friday offering day-game baseball to watch during the British evening.
There are nine early games on Thursday to make up for the slow start. They should include an enticing match-up between Zack Greinke and Max Scherzer from the D-Backs-Nationals series, as well as Danny Salazar and Michael Fulmer squaring off in the Indians-Tigers game and Yu Darvish taking on the Houston Astros.
Then on Friday, after this past weekend’s exciting series at Fenway against the Boston Red Sox, the Chicago Cubs host the New York Yankees in a relatively rare foray to Wrigley Field for the Bronx Bombers.
All times are in BST
Monday 1 May
No early games
Tuesday 2Â May
No early games
Wednesday 3Â May
No early games
Thursday 4 May
17:35 Pirates at Reds (Nova, Adleman)
18:05 D-Backs at Nationals (Greinke, Scherzer)
18:10 Indians at Tigers (Salazar, Fulmer)
18:10 Athletics at Twins (Cotton, Gibson)
18:45 Brewers at Cardinals (Nelson, Lynn)
19:10 Rangers at Astros (Darvish, Musgrove)
19:15 White Sox at Royals (Holland, Kennedy)
19:20 Phillies at Cubs (Eflin, Lackey)
20:40 Rockies at Padres (Freeland, Perdomo) *BT Sport/ESPN, MLB.com Free Game
Friday 5 May
19:20 Yankees at Cubs (Pineda, Hendricks) *BT Sport/ESPN
23:40 Giants at Reds (Cain, Arroyo) *MLB.com Free Game
All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an MLB.TV subscription. TV coverage of MLB in the UK comes courtesy of the BT Sport channels and these are highlighted above, as are any games that are available to view online for free via MLB.com. The above list of games just shows those starting before midnight UK time. The full schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com.