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There is much to play for as we head into the All-Star break, but one man has more to gain than most.<\/p>\nThere is much to play for as we head into the All-Star break, but one man has more to gain than most.<\/p>\n
Derek Jeter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quest for 3,000 career hits might have already been over had Friday night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays not been postponed due to rain.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jeter only needs two more hits to hit the big 3,000 and the Yankees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 two remaining games before the All-Star break are being played at 1.05 p.m. local time.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
That makes for an 18.05 BST start and both games will be broadcast live in the UK: Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game on ESPN America and Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra.<\/p>\n
Those Rays-Yankees encounters are just two of an exciting group of MLB games that are scheduled to start before midnight UK time this weekend.<\/p>\n
Saturday 9 July <\/strong><\/p>\n 18.05. Tampa Bay at NY Yankees (Price – Burnett) *ESPN America The hype surrounding the Jeter storyline shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t overshadow the fact that this is an important series for the two AL East teams.\u00c2\u00a0 David Price and A.J. Burnett were due to take the mound on Friday and will pitch on an extra day of rest.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise that ESPN America has chosen to broadcast the Braves-Phillies game.\u00c2\u00a0 They are the top two teams in the NL East and a pitching match-up between Tommy Hanson and Cliff Lee is a genuine headline act.\u00c2\u00a0 However, fans with an MLB.com subscription \u00e2\u20ac\u201c not to mention those with an allegiance to either team \u00e2\u20ac\u201c may choose to look in on the Padres-Dodgers game as L.A. will have the exciting young right-hander Rubby De La Rosa on the mound.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n Sunday 10 July<\/strong><\/p>\n 18.05. Toronto at Cleveland (Cecil – Carrasco) Even if Jeter has already knocked his historic hit, Nat Coombs and Josh Chetwynd won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to work hard in selling the BBC radio game.\u00c2\u00a0 James Shields and CC Sabathia have both had an excellent first half to the season and they will be keen to head into the All-Star break with a dominating performance.\u00c2\u00a0 The BBC show goes on air at 18.00.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Dontrelle Willis makes another MLB comeback with the Reds, Justin Verlander (arguably the best pitcher in the American League so far this season) pitches for the Tigers and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an excellent game in prospect at Angel Stadium with Felix Hernandez and Dan Haren scheduled to be the starting pitchers.<\/p>\n All of these games are available to watch live via the MLB.TV subscription at <\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The games being shown on ESPN America are highlighted above.\u00c2\u00a0 You can listen to the 5 Live Sports Extra game via Digital Radio, Digital TV or online on the BBC website\u00c2\u00a0(UK residents only). <\/em>The full schedule for this weekend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s games can be found on <\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is much to play for as we head into the All-Star break, but one man has more to gain than most<\/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-11359","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\/11359","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=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11363,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions\/11363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>21.10. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox (Duensing – Buehrle)
\n21.10. San Diego at LA Dodgers (Harang – De La Rosa)
\n21.10. Atlanta at Philadelphia (Hanson – Lee) *ESPN America <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n18.05. Tampa Bay at NY Yankees (Shields – Sabathia) *BBC 5 Live Sports Extra
\n<\/strong>18.10. Houston at Florida (Rodriguez – Volstad)
\n18.35. Baltimore at Boston (Atkins – Weiland)
\n18.35. Colorado at Washington (Chacin – Zimmermann)
\n18.35. Atlanta at Philadelphia (Lowe – Hamels)
\n18.35. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh (Ortiz – Maholm)
\n19.10. Minnesota at Chicago White Sox (Swarzak – Peavy)
\n19.10. Detroit at Kansas City (Verlander – Francis)
\n19.10. Cincinnati at Milwaukee (Willis – Wolf)
\n19.15. Arizona at St. Louis (Duke – Garcia)
\n20.05. Oakland at Texas (Cahill – Harrison)
\n20.35. Seattle at LA Angels (Hernandez – Haren)
\n21.10. San Diego at LA Dodgers (Stauffer – Lilly)<\/p>\n