Monday, Wednesday and Thursday all offer us some live baseball during the British evening this working week.

We have a treat to start the week today as the fourth and final game of the Red Sox-Yankees series takes place during the early afternoon in New York.  Wednesday’s batch of games really catch the eye.  The Cardinals-Reds series in Cincinnati should produce plenty of excitement and Wainwright-Arroyo looks an enticing pitching match-up, as does Garza v Verlander, Hanson v Rodriguez and Greinke v Weaver.

Thursday’s games largely focus on the playoff race from the NL West as the Rockies start the action in New York, Matt Cain takes the mound later on in San Francisco and the Padres just sneak into the pre-midnight ‘early’ bracket with their home game against the Buccos.

All times are in BST.

Monday 9 August

19.05. Boston at NY Yankees (Jon Lester – Phil Hughes)

Tuesday 10 August

No early games

Wednesday 11 August

17.35. St. Louis at Cincinnati (Adam Wainwright – Bronson Arroyo)
18.05. Tampa Bay at Detroit (Matt Garza – Justin Verlander)
19.05. Atlanta at Houston (Tommy Hanson – Wandy Rodriguez)
20.35. Kansas City at LA Angels (Zack Greinke – Jered Weaver)
20.40. Oakland at Seattle (Dallas Braden – Luke French)

Thursday 12 August

17.10. Colorado at NY Mets (Jason Hammel – Johan Santana)
17.37. Boston at Toronto (John Lackey – Brett Cecil)
19.10. Arizona at Milwaukee (Rodrigo Lopez – Randy Wolf)
20.45. Chicago Cubs at San Francisco (Randy Wells – Matt Cain)
23.35. Pittsburgh at San Diego (Zack Duke – Jon Garland)

Friday 13 August

No early games

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