{"id":10726,"date":"2011-05-02T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T09:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T09:57:16","slug":"bst-guide-to-this-week%e2%80%99s-early-mlb-games-josh-johnson-leads-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=10726","title":{"rendered":"BST guide to this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early MLB games: Josh Johnson leads the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6302\" title=\"CovHlSq\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovHlSq.jpg\" alt=\"CovHlSq\" width=\"154\" height=\"158\" \/>Including a close-to-midnight start on Tuesday, we&#8217;ve got &#8216;early&#8217; games every day this working week.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are fifteen games in total starting before midnight, with the potential highlight being a Josh Johnson start on Thursday.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 2 May <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>20.35. Texas at Oakland (Holland &#8211; McCarthy) <strong>* ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We start the working week with a game from the AL West.\u00c2\u00a0 The A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead the four-game series 2-1 and can move above .500 with a victory today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 3 May <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>23.40. Toronto at Tampa Bay (Reyes &#8211; Davis)<\/p>\n<p>This Blue Jays-Rays game just makes it into the early bracket.\u00c2\u00a0 Jo-Jo Reyes is still seeking his first win of the season and lasted only 2.2 innings in his previous start against the Rangers.\u00c2\u00a0 Wade Davis has\u00c2\u00a0earned three winning decisions in a row and has made it through at least six innings in each start so far this season.\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 4 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.35. Houston at Cincinnati (Myers &#8211; Wood)<br \/>\n19.10. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox (Blackburn &#8211; Danks) <strong>* ESPN America<\/strong><br \/>\n20.10. Chicago Cubs at LA Dodgers (Zambrano &#8211; Lilly)<br \/>\n23.35. Pittsburgh at San Diego (Correia &#8211; Richard)<br \/>\n23.35. Toronto at Tampa Bay (Morrow &#8211; Hellickson)<\/p>\n<p>Ted Lilly faces his former team with the unpredictable Carlos Zambrano on the mound for the Cubs.\u00c2\u00a0 Big Z has been on a roll in terms of his win-loss record, but you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re never quite sure what you will get from him.\u00c2\u00a0 He struck out ten Padres over eight innings for a no-decision on 18 April, conceded six runs in five innings against the Dodgers on 24 April and then got a win against the D-Backs last time out despite walking more batters than he struck out (3-2).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 5 May <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18.05. NY Yankees at Detroit (Burnett &#8211; Porcello)<br \/>\n18.10. San Francisco at NY Mets (Sanchez \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Pelfrey)<br \/>\n18.10. Toronto at Tampa Bay (Romero &#8211; Niemann) <strong>* ESPN America<\/strong><br \/>\n18.35. LA Angels at Boston (Pineiro &#8211; Matsuzaka)<br \/>\n18.45. Florida at St. Louis (Johnson &#8211; Westbrook)<br \/>\n19.10. Baltimore at Kansas City (Tillman &#8211; Chen)<br \/>\n20.35. Cleveland at Oakland (Gomez &#8211; Anderson)<\/p>\n<p>Josh Johnson has been in mesmerizing form this season and the Marlins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 game against the Cardinals gives baseball fans in Britain the perfect opportunity to watch him in action.\u00c2\u00a0 Elsewhere, Daisuke Matsuzaka was showing promising signs before tightness in his elbow brought a premature end to his last start.\u00c2\u00a0 This would be his next rotation turn if he is healthy enough to take the ball.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 6 May <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19.20. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs (Volquez &#8211; Garza) <strong>* ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We end the working week, and start the weekend, with a day-game from Wrigley Field.<\/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>Including a close-to-midnight start on Tuesday, we&#8217;ve got &#8216;early&#8217; games every day this working week<\/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-10726","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\/10726","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=10726"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10730,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions\/10730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}