{"id":13539,"date":"2012-05-21T09:40:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13539"},"modified":"2012-05-24T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T19:25:31","slug":"fingers-crossed-for-a-verlander-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13539","title":{"rendered":"Fingers crossed for a Verlander Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are no\u00c2\u00a0MLB games starting before midnight on three days this working week, but Wednesday and Thursday should provide some high quality games to enjoy.<\/p>\n

That will\u00c2\u00a0particularly\u00c2\u00a0be the case on Thursday if the schedule doesn’t change.<\/p>\n

The Detroit Tigers’ game against the Cleveland Indians is Justin Verlander’s next scheduled start.<\/p>\n

He came within two outs of pitching his third no-hitter on Friday against the Pittsburgh Pirates and if rain-outs don’t jumble up the Tigers’ plans, we’ll be line to watch or listen to his follow-up performance. \u00c2\u00a0Coverage on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra with Nat Coombs and Josh Chetwynd will begin at 17.00.<\/p>\n

Wednesday also offers a good selection of games. The Baltimore Orioles have been the surprise package of the season so far and their home series against the Red Sox will be a good test of their early-season form. Wednesday’s game will be the third of the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Ricky Romero and James Shields should make for an excellent pitching match-up at Tropicana Field, while there are also good pitchers scheduled to be on the mound in the two AL West games a little later in the evening. Log on to the ESPN America website<\/a> and cast your vote if you have a preference for which of those two games you would most like to watch.<\/p>\n

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

Monday 21 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Tuesday 22 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 23 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.35. Boston at Baltimore (Bard – Arrieta) *ESPN America<\/strong>
\n17.35. NY Mets at Pittsburgh (Niese – Morton)
\n18.10. San Francisco at Milwaukee (Zito – Estrada)
\n18.10. Toronto at Tampa Bay (Romero – Shields)
\n20.35. LA Angels at Oakland (Weaver – Parker) *ESPN America?<\/strong>
\n20.40. Texas at Seattle (Feliz – Millwood) *ESPN America?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 24 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.05. Detroit at Cleveland (Verlander – Masterson) *BBC 5 Live Sports Extra, ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 25 May<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games.<\/p>\n

All of these games are available to watch live via the\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>MLB.TV subscription<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a0<\/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\u00c2\u00a0on 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\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Detroit’s ace scheduled to pitch against Cleveland<\/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":[226,225,82,25,503,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-13539","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-featured","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","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=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13586,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions\/13586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}