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The post-All-Star-Break weekend offers us plenty of early starts, making up for the relative lack of baseball over the past week.<\/p>\nThe post-All-Star-Break weekend offers us plenty of early starts, making up for the relative lack of baseball over the past week.<\/p>\n
There are two early games being broadcast on ESPN America on Saturday, followed by a game between the Brewers and Rockies at 1 a.m.<\/p>\n
Nat Coombs and Josh Chetwynd will be presenting coverage of game between the Phillies and Mets on Sunday, with ESPN America focusing on White Sox-Tigers and Dodgers-Diamondbacks before the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSunday Night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 game between the Red Sox and Rays at 1 a.m.<\/p>\n
All times are in BST<\/p>\n
Saturday 16 July <\/strong><\/p>\n 18.05. Florida at Chicago Cubs (Vazquez – Zambrano) There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rarity in MLB on Saturday as the Angels and A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play the first scheduled double-header (i.e. one not caused by postponements) since 2003.\u00c2\u00a0 The teams agreed to it so that they could extend their All-Star Breaks by an extra day.\u00c2\u00a0 The opener should be an excellent pitching match-up, with the AL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s All-Star starter Jered Weaver duelling with Trevor Cahill.<\/p>\n The Cubs will be hoping that Carlos Zambrano can back-up the impressive pitching performance by Ryan Dempster in the lone \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcearly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 game on Friday, which the Cubs won 2-1.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile the Red Sox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s John Lackey needs to prove that his encouraging last outing against the Orioles was a sign of better things to come after a miserable first half to the season.<\/p>\n Sunday 17 July <\/strong><\/p>\n 18.05. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (Humber – Penny) * ESPN America As for Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s slate of early games, it looks like Kyle Kendrick will get the nod for the Phillies, although that hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been officially confirmed as yet. The Cardinals\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Jaime Garcia will look to celebrate signing a four-year\/$27.5m contract extension by putting in a strong performance against the Reds, while the Braves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Jair Jurrjens goes for win number thirteen on the season.<\/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":" ESPN America is broadcasting three live games on both Saturday and Sunday, while this weekend’s BBC 5 Live Sports Extra game is Phillies-Mets from 18.00 on Sunday<\/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":[226,225,82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-11453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-5-live-sports-extra","tag-bbc","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\/11453","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=11453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11457,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11453\/revisions\/11457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n18.07. NY Yankees at Toronto (Sabathia – Romero) * ESPN America
\n<\/strong>21.05. LA Angels at Oakland (Weaver – Cahill)
\n21.10. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (Jackson – Scherzer)
\n21.10. Philadelphia at NY Mets (Hamels – Niese) * ESPN America
\n<\/strong>21.10. Boston at Tampa Bay (Lackey – Shields)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>18.07. NY Yankees at Toronto (Hughes – Villanueva)
\n18.10. St. Louis at Cincinnati (Garcia – Bailey)
\n18.10. Philadelphia at NY Mets (Kendrick – Pelfrey) * BBC 5 Live Sports Extra
\n<\/strong>18.35. Cleveland at Baltimore (Gomez – Atkins)
\n18.35. Washington at Atlanta (Gorzelanny – Jurrjens)
\n19.05. Pittsburgh at Houston (Correia – Rodriguez)
\n19.10. Kansas City at Minnesota (Paulino – Duensing)
\n19.20. Florida at Chicago Cubs (Volstad – Wells)
\n20.10. Milwaukee at Colorado (Marcum – Cook)
\n21.05. LA Angels at Oakland (Pineiro – Gonzalez)
\n21.05. San Francisco at San Diego (Cain – Latos)
\n21.10. Texas at Seattle (Harrison – Beavan)
\n21.10. LA Dodgers at Arizona (Lilly – Hudson) * ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n