{"id":11463,"date":"2011-07-18T18:26:37","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11463"},"modified":"2011-07-18T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T17:25:18","slug":"bst-guide-to-this-weeks-early-mlb-games-two-potential-all-star-starter-match-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11463","title":{"rendered":"BST guide to this week&#8217;s early MLB games: Two potential All-Star starter match ups"},"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\" \/>After last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s All-Star Break, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a full schedule of games in MLB this working week.<\/p>\n<p>Fans in the UK can enjoy following live baseball at a convenient time on four of the five days, with only Tuesday serving up a night-game-only list of fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>The action starts on Monday with a clash from the AL Central, before we get a crop of six games on Wednesday including the potential of\u00c2\u00a0an outstanding pitching match-up.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday offers up five early games, including another potential All-Star pitching match-up, and then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s off to Wrigley Field on Friday as the Houston Astros head to Chicago to take on the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 18 July <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18.10. Cleveland at Minnesota (Huff &#8211; Swarzak) <strong>* ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This promises to be a fascinating series from the AL Central.\u00c2\u00a0 As noted in my <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=11459\">Weekly Hit Ground Ball column<\/a>, the time is now for the Minnesota Twins if they are to stay in the race, while the Cleveland Indians need to push on if their surprisingly successful first half will lead to a play-off appearance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 19 July <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 20 July <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.35. Boston at Baltimore (Miller &#8211; Arrieta) <strong>* ESPN America<br \/>\n<\/strong>17.35. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (Cueto &#8211; Karstens)<br \/>\n18.10. Cleveland at Minnesota (Tomlin &#8211; Blackburn)<br \/>\n19.05. Washington at Houston (Hernandez &#8211; Myers)<br \/>\n19.20. Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs (Worley &#8211; Dempster)<br \/>\n20.45. LA Dodgers at San Francisco (Kershaw &#8211; Lincecum)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If ever we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want rain-outs or rotation changes to happen, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the lead up to this potential classic encounter between the Dodgers and Giants.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get much better than a Clayton Kershaw \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Tim Lincecum match-up, so keep your fingers crossed that the plan for them to meet on Wednesday is not disrupted.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the games should all be interesting contests too, albeit with the Nationals-Astros game perhaps only being one for fans of the two respective teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 21 July <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.10. St. Louis at NY Mets (Westbrook &#8211; Niese) <strong>* ESPN America?<br \/>\n<\/strong>17.10. San Diego at Florida (Moseley &#8211; Vazquez)<strong> * ESPN America?<br \/>\n<\/strong>17.37. Seattle at Toronto (Fister &#8211; Romero)<br \/>\n20.10. Atlanta at Colorado (Hanson &#8211; Chacin)<br \/>\n20.35. Texas at LA Angels (Wilson &#8211; Weaver)<\/p>\n<p>We move from a National League All-Star pitching match-up on Wednesday to an American League edition on Thursday.\u00c2\u00a0 C.J. Wilson and Jered Weaver are scheduled to meet as the Rangers and Angels complete a series from the top of the AL West.\u00c2\u00a0 Once again, that probable pitching match-up is subject to change so hopefully the stars will align on two days in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The ESPN America game will be determined by a poll on their website, so if you have a preference for either possible game, make sure to cast your vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 22 July <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19.20. Houston at Chicago Cubs (Norris &#8211; Zambrano) <strong>* ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We end the working week, and start the weekend, with a Carlos Zambrano outing for the Cubs.<\/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>After last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s All-Star Break, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a full schedule of games in MLB this working week including two potential All-Star starter match ups<\/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-11463","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\/11463","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=11463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11465,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11463\/revisions\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}