{"id":13248,"date":"2012-04-16T20:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2012-04-28T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T11:07:49","slug":"wrigley-and-fenway-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13248","title":{"rendered":"Wrigley and Fenway on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After being treated to 25 early games during the opening week, our evening viewing reduces down to nine games this working week.<\/p>\n

However, there are some interesting contests to look forward to, including the opening game of the first Yankees-Red Sox series of the season on Friday.<\/p>\n

All times are in BST.<\/p>\n

Monday 16 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

16.05. Tampa Bay at Boston (Shields – Bard) * ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n

The week’s first ‘early’ game is an especially early one, indeed it’s already finished as I’ve got around to writing this ‘preview’.\u00c2\u00a0 The Rays prevailed 1-0, with James Shields earning the win thanks to 8.1 shut-out innings.\u00c2\u00a0It’s a shame I accidentally\u00c2\u00a0left him on my fantasy team bench, then.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 17 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 18 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.10. NY Mets at Atlanta (Dickey – Jurrjens) * ESPN America<\/strong>
\n20.40. Pittsburgh at Arizona (McDonald – Hudson)<\/p>\n

R.A. Dickey got the better of Jair Jurrjen and the Braves on 7 April. Dickey put in another good showing in his next start against the Phillies, while\u00c2\u00a0Jurrjens\u00c2\u00a0produced his second straight\u00c2\u00a0disappointing start against the Brewers on Friday 13th. We’ll see if those trends continue or are reversed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

One person who wants to find a change of form is the D-Backs’ Daniel Hudson. He’s given up 10 earned runs over 10.1 innings during his first two starts of 2012 and will be hoping that a home start against the Pirates can help him get his season back on track.<\/p>\n

Thursday 19 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.40. Chicago Cubs at Miami (Samardzija – Nolasco)
\n18.10. LA Dodgers at Milwaukee (Harang – Wolf)
\n18.45. Cincinnati at St. Louis (Arroyo – Wainwright) * BBC 5 Live Sports Extra and ESPN America<\/strong>
\n19.10. Baltimore at Chicago White Sox (Hammel – Floyd)<\/p>\n

We’ve got four early games on ‘get-away’ Thursday and both ESPN America and BBC 5 Live are focusing on the NL Central match-up between the Reds and Cardinals.\u00c2\u00a0 Adam Wainwright has lost both of his first two starts on his return from Tommy John surgery and was clubbed for eight runs by the Cubs last time out. It can be a long road back from elbow surgery and Wainwright will simply be looking to provide his team with a decent platform to build on in his third start of the year.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Dodgers’ Aaron Harang wants to pick up exactly from where he left off after his 13 strike-out appearance against the Padres last Friday.<\/p>\n

Friday 20 April<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.20. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs (Bailey vs Volstad)
\n20.05. NY Yankees at Boston (Nova – Buchholz) * ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n

We end the working week, and more importantly start the weekend, with games from two of the most iconic venues to be found in world sport.\u00c2\u00a0 Wrigley Field and Fenway Park host games between the Reds and Cubs and the Yankees and Red Sox.<\/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 The early games being shown on ESPN America are highlighted above, while the full ESPN\/ESPN America schedule can be found on their website<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 BBC 5 Live Sports Extra can be found on digital radio, digital TV and on the BBC.co.uk website (coverage on the website is only available to UK residents). The complete schedule for this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MLB games can be found on <\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking at the 9 early MLB games scheduled for the working week ahead<\/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":[226,82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-13248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-5-live-sports-extra","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\/13248","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=13248"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13371,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions\/13371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}