{"id":13107,"date":"2012-04-08T13:26:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T12:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13107"},"modified":"2012-04-08T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T12:29:16","slug":"tigers-roar-before-giants-vs-d-backs-this-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13107","title":{"rendered":"Tigers roar before Giants vs D-Backs this evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are no certainties in baseball, but when the Detroit Tigers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 owner Mike Illitch decided to spend a fortune on acquiring Prince Fielder over the offseason there was every reason to be confident that it would have a positive impact.<\/p>\n

Barring a bad break with an injury \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and the Tigers will hope losing Victor Martinez all year to a knee injury should use up a fair amount of their bad luck \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we all knew that the Tigers would have arguably the most destructive 3-4 hitters in the Majors.<\/p>\n

Fielder and Miguel Cabrera have wasted little time in living up to that billing.<\/p>\n

They both smashed two home runs on Saturday in a 10-0 demolition of the Red Sox, including the pair going back-to-back in the bottom of the fifth inning. It will be of no comfort to Josh Beckett that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unlikely to be the last pitcher to suffer that indignity this season, and indeed\u00c2\u00a0in years to come.<\/p>\n

Saturday was the day for going deep twice. The Mets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Lucas Duda, the Brewers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Corey Hart and the D-Backs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Aaron Hill all enjoyed hitting one out so much that they decided to repeat the trick.<\/p>\n

Duda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s double blow, joined by David Wright getting off the mark with his first homer of the season, made it two wins from two for the Mets over the Braves.\u00c2\u00a0 R.A. Dickey got the win for the Mets which would have pleased me more had I not made the mistake of forgetting to move him from my fantasy bench into my starting line-up.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s error number one on the season for me, sadly likely to be the first of many.<\/p>\n

Aaron Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two homers helped Arizona to their second win of the season over the San Francisco Giants and the D-Backs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 attempt to make it a season-opening sweep will be broadcast on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra this evening from 21.00.<\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of twelve day-games taking place today in the States, producing the first real feast of live baseball at a convenient evening hour for us in the UK this year. All times are in BST.<\/p>\n

18.05. Toronto at Cleveland (Carreno – Lowe)<\/p>\n

18.05. Boston at Detroit (Buchholz – Scherzer)<\/p>\n

18.10. Miami at Cincinnati (Zambrano – Arroyo)<\/p>\n

18.10. Atlanta at NY Mets (Minor – Niese)<\/p>\n

18.35. Minnesota at Baltimore (Swarzak – Hammel)<\/p>\n

18.35. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (Worley – McDonald)<\/p>\n

18.40. NY Yankees at Tampa Bay (Hughes – Hellickson) * ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.05. Colorado at Houston (Nicasio – Norris)<\/p>\n

19.10. St. Louis at Milwaukee (Lynn – Wolf)<\/p>\n

19.20. Washington at Chicago Cubs (Zimmermann – Samardzija)<\/p>\n

20.35. Kansas City at LA Angels\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (Sanchez – Santana)<\/p>\n

21.05. LA Dodgers at San Diego (Harang – Richard)<\/p>\n

21.10. San Francisco at Arizona\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (Cain – Collmenter) * BBC 5 Live Sports Extra<\/strong><\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

01.00 a.m. Chicago White Sox at Texas (Floyd – Harrison)<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

Matt Cain recently signed a well-deserved contract extension with the Giants and helping his team to their first victory of the season would be the perfect way to celebrate. His opposing starting pitcher Josh Collmenter comes into this season with the objective of proving that his success last year was not simply\u00c2\u00a0the product of hitters struggling due to an unfamiliarity\u00c2\u00a0with his\u00c2\u00a0unconventional pitching motion and that he can sustain his performance long-term.<\/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 Nat Coombs and Josh Chetwynd will be on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra (and on the BBC.co.uk website for UK residents) from 21.00 with the Giants vs D-Backs game.\u00c2\u00a0 ESPN America is showing the Yankees-Rays game and then the ESPN Sunday Night contest between the White Sox and Rangers from 1.00 a.m.\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":"

Homers in Detroit and the BBC 5 Live Sports Extra game on Sunday evening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[226,225,82,25,503,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-2","tag-5-live-sports-extra","tag-bbc","tag-bst-guide","tag-espn-america","tag-featured","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","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=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13114,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions\/13114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}