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We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a great day of sport today.\u00c2\u00a0 Staging the F.A. Cup while other fixtures are going on does take a bit of shine off it, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a cherished day in the football calendar (however much the F.A.\/Premier League clowns try to mess it up).\u00c2\u00a0 There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big rugby union play-off game between Leicester and Northampton, plus Andy Murray takes on Novak Djokovic in the semi-final of the Rome Masters.<\/p>\n
And alongside all of that, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a bumper crop of early MLB games.\u00c2\u00a0 Twelve games will begin before midnight UK time and, as always, there are plenty of exciting match-ups to choose from.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are in BST.<\/p>\n
18.05. Seattle at Cleveland (Bedard – White) Looking at the three \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjust past six\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 games, Alex White picked up his first career Major League win last time out and his Indians staged a dramatic comeback yesterday, scoring three runs in the bottom of the ninth to walk off winners against the Mariners.\u00c2\u00a0 The Marlins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Anibal Sanchez flirted with another no-hitter in his previous start against the Nationals, while the Netherlands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pitcher Jair Jurrjens looks to help the Braves even up their series against the Phillies.<\/p>\n In the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcjust past nine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 games, arguably the pick is the clash between the Cardinals and Reds, and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcclash\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is an apt word when it comes to these two teams.\u00c2\u00a0 They have a genuine dislike of each other after last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ugly confrontations and the Reds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 starter today is public enemy number one among the St. Louis team after his kung-fu kicks left Jason LaRue with a concussion and effectively ended his career.\u00c2\u00a0 To say there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a bit of needle\u00e2\u20ac\u009d between the teams doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come close to describing it.\u00c2\u00a0 So, that should be a cracker.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, the Twins need another good performance from Nick Blackburn after they were shut down by Ricky Romero yesterday and fell to a 12-24 record.\u00c2\u00a0 And, yes, I did tip the Twins to make it to the World Series this year.<\/p>\n Aaron Harang has pitched well for the Padres of late and he matches up against Jhoulys Chacin and the Rockies, who has had a good start to the year too. R.A. Dickey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s knuckleball offerings are always fun to watch except if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the batter trying to hit them, as the Astros\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lineup may be able to note after today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, Dan Haren takes the mound in an AL West battle between the Angels and Rangers.<\/p>\n All in all, lots to forward to.<\/p>\n All of these games are available to watch live via the <\/em>MLB.TV subscription<\/em> at <\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 ESPN America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s games are highlighted above.\u00c2\u00a0 The full schedule for today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s games can be found on <\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are twelve MLB games scheduled to start before midnight UK time on F.A. Cup Final day<\/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-10791","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\/10791","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=10791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10799,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10791\/revisions\/10799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n18.05. Florida at Washington (Sanchez – Hernandez)
\n18.10. Philadelphia at Atlanta (Blanton – Jurrjens) * ESPN America
\n<\/strong>20.10. San Diego at Colorado (Harang – Chacin)
\n21.05. Chicago White Sox at Oakland (Floyd – Ross)
\n21.05. NY Mets at Houston (Dickey – Happ)
\n21.10. Kansas City at Detroit (Francis – Penny)
\n21.10. Pittsburgh at Milwaukee (Karstens – Narveson)
\n21.10. Toronto at Minnesota (Reyes – Blackburn)
\n21.10. LA Angels at Texas (Haren – Holland)
\n21.10. St. Louis at Cincinnati (McClellan – Cueto) * ESPN America<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0
\n21.10. Baltimore at Tampa Bay (Bergesen – Davis)\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n