{"id":10680,"date":"2011-04-25T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T10:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10680"},"modified":"2011-04-26T21:10:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T20:10:43","slug":"bst-guide-to-this-week%e2%80%99s-early-mlb-games-wednesday-and-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10680","title":{"rendered":"BST guide to this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early MLB games: Wednesday and Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a relatively slim schedule of early MLB games this working week, with only Wednesday and Thursday providing us with games beginning before midnight UK time.\u00c2\u00a0 However, there are some promising pitching match-ups in the nine games we do have to look forward to.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 25 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 26 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 27 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.10. LA Dodgers at Florida (Billingsley &#8211; Sanchez)<br \/>\n18.10. Cincinnati at Milwaukee (LeCure &#8211; Gallardo) <strong>* ESPN America<br \/>\n<\/strong>19.20. Colorado at Chicago Cubs (Chacin &#8211; Coleman)<br \/>\n20.35. Atlanta at San Diego (Hanson &#8211; Latos)<br \/>\n20.40. Philadelphia at Arizona (Hamels &#8211; Saunders)<\/p>\n<p>The Marlins&#8217; Anibal Sanchez took a no-hitter into the ninth inning of his last start and his contest against Chad Billingsley and the Dodgers should be a good one.\u00c2\u00a0 Hanson-Latos looks an intrigiuing match-up too, while Cole Hamels was masterful in his most recent outing.<strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 28 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.35. San Francisco at Pittsburgh (Lincecum &#8211; Karstens)<br \/>\n18.05. Seattle at Detroit (Pineda &#8211; Penny)<br \/>\n18.10. Tampa Bay at Minnesota (Hellickson &#8211; Baker) <strong>* ESPN America<br \/>\n<\/strong>19.05. Toronto at Texas (Morrow &#8211; Ogando)<\/p>\n<p>Lincecum was out-duelled by Tim Hudson on Saturday and will aim to bounce back against the Buccos.\u00c2\u00a0 Brad Penny had a no-hit bid ended in the sixth inning of his last start by a marginal error\/hit call by the official scorer (the scorer got the decision right, in my opinion), while his opposite number on Thursday, Michael Pineda, has been extremely impressive over his first four Major League starts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 29 April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games (and nothing else of interest happening that day either)<\/p>\n<p><em>All of these games are available to watch live via the <\/em><em>MLB.TV subscription<\/em><em> at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/subscriptions\/index.jsp?product=mlbtv&amp;affiliateId=mlbMENU\"><em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The early games being shown on ESPN America are highlighted above, while the ESPN\/ESPN America schedule can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.espn.co.uk\/gb\/espl\/tv-schedule\">on their website<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The full schedule for this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s games can be found on <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/?tcid=mm_mlb_schedule\"><em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a relatively slim schedule of early MLB games this working week, with only Wednesday and Thursday providing us with games beginning before midnight UK time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-10680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bst-guide","tag-espn-america","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10680"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10684,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10680\/revisions\/10684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}