We’ve got nine ‘early’ MLB games this working week. It’s a slightly unusual schedule in that we’ve got a rare early game on Tuesday, while there are only two games on Thursday, the normally bountiful source of pre-midnight UK time contests.
We’ve got two games from the White Sox-Tigers series, a Twins-Rays contest on Thursday and two Cincinnati Reds games including a Friday day-game at Wrigley against the Cubs.
In terms of the probable pitching match-ups, Wednesday offers the most enticing game as the latest exciting young pitcher developed by the Giants, Madison Bumgarner, takes on the Rockies and Ubaldo Jimenez.
Monday 2 August
No early games
Tuesday 3 August
18.05. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (Mark Buehrle – Jeremy Bonderman)
Wednesday 4 August
17.35. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (Johnny Cueto – Jeff Karstens)
18.05. Toronto at NY Yankees (Shaun Marcum – Phil Hughes)
19.20. Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs (Manny Parra – Ryan Dempster)
20.10. San Francisco at Colorado (Madison Bumgarner – Ubaldo Jimenez)
20.35. Kansas City at Oakland (Sean O’Sullivan – Brett Anderson)
Thursday 5 August
17.10. Minnesota at Tampa Bay (Kevin Slowey – Wade Davis)
18.05. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (John Danks – Max Scherzer)
Friday 6 August
19.20. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs (Bronson Arroyo – Tom Gorzelanny)
All the above games can be followed via various resources on MLB.com (Gameday, At Bat with Gameday Audio and MLB.tv), while ESPN America’s MLB schedule can be found here. A complete schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com