There’s a chance to catch some pre-midnight UK time baseball every day this working week.
Whilst the Friday game, Mets-Phillies, isn’t a true early game (starting at 23.05), on all the other days there’s some good baseball to watch during the British evening.
Monday’s early game is part of a double-header at SunTrust Park as the Braves host the Marlins, with the early game being a make-up date for a rain-out from the start of August. Touki Toussaint, one of Atlanta’s crop of promising young pitchers, is scheduled to make his Major League debut in this one.
You don’t often see BT Sport showing two games from the same series back-to-back during the working week, but they’re doing that this week on Tuesday and Wednesday with the Brewers and Cubs.
On Thursday evening there will be live baseball on two BT Sport channels, with the Rays-Yankees game on BT Sport2 being joined by coverage from the Little League World Series on BT Sport/ESPN.
All times are in BST.
Monday 13 August
18:35. Marlins at Braves (Lopez (2-2), Toussaint (0-0)) *BT Sport/ESPN
Tuesday 14 August
19:20. Brewers at Cubs (Chacin (11-4), Quintana (10-8)) *BT Sport/ESPN
Wednesday 15 August
18:10. White Sox at Tigers (Rodon (3-3), Zimmermann (5-4)) *MLB.com Free Game
18:10. Pirates at Twins (Archer (4-5), Berrios (11-8))
19:20. Brewers at Cubs (Guerra (6-7), Hendricks (8-9)) *BT Sport/ESPN
20:35. Mariners at Athletics (Leake (8-7), Anderson (2-3))
Thursday 16 August
18:05. Rays at Yankees (TBD, TBD) *BT Sport2
21:05. Mets at Phillies (TBD, TBD) *Facebook Game
Friday 17 August
23:05. Mets at Phillies (TBD, TBD).
All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an MLB.TV subscription, other than the Facebook live game which is exclusive (but free) to Facebook subscribers. 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
If anybody still wants this years Baseball Prospectus to read while watching games its
now down to £4.97 for the paperback on Amazon
Thanks for heads-up. Still well worth buying for future reference at that price