{"id":13702,"date":"2012-06-04T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T10:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13702"},"modified":"2012-06-04T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T10:32:13","slug":"ten-early-games-this-working-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13702","title":{"rendered":"Ten early games this working week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There’s a good mix of early games from the American and National Leagues this working week, heading into Interleague play over the weekend.<\/p>\n

We’ve got a couple of games on Monday leading up to the First Year Amateur Draft at midnight.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals have managed only one run in the first three games of their series against the Mets and New York’s starter today, Dillon Gee, has been in good form recently too. St. Louis have lost five in a row in total and have slipped into third in the NL Central, with the Pittsburgh Pirates sneaking past into second. They’ll be very keen to take a positive from this series with a win today before starting a three-game series in Houston.<\/p>\n

Like the Mets, the Giants have taken the first three games of their current home series and are going for the four-game sweep today. The Cubs have now lost fifteen of their last eighteen games, although Jeff Samardzija’s conversion into a Major League starter has been one of the very rare good news stories from Chicago’s season so far. He’ll go against Ryan Vogelsong at AT&T Park.<\/p>\n

Later in the week, the Giants have two further day games, albeit with the game on Wednesday only narrowly coming in under the pre-midnight U.K. time ‘early’ game bracket.<\/p>\n

Thursday is the main day for early games this week and there are some good potential pitching match-ups on the provisional list. The Mets’ game against the Nationals would be Johan Santana’s next \u00c2\u00a0scheduled start; however he may be given some extra rest after his no-hitter exertions<\/a> last Friday so we’ll need to wait and see who manager Terry Collins decides to go with on that day.<\/p>\n

Nat Coombs and Josh Chetwynd will be covering all of the latest stories in MLB while broadcasting the Cubs-Brewers game on BBC Radio.<\/p>\n

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

Monday 4 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

18.10. St. Louis at NY Mets (Lohse – Gee) *ESPN America<\/strong>
\n20.45. Chicago Cubs at San Francisco (Samardzija – Vogelsong)<\/p>\n

Tuesday 5 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 6 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

23.35. San Francisco at San Diego (Bumgarner – Richard) *MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 7 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

18.05. Cleveland at Detroit (Lowe – Crosby) *ESPN America<\/strong>
\n18.05. NY Mets at Washington (TBA – Wang)
\n18.05. LA Dodgers at Philadelphia (Harang – Hamels)
\n19.10. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee (Garza – Wolf) *BBC 5 Live Sports Extra<\/strong>
\n20.35. Texas at Oakland (Darvish – McCarthy)\u00c2\u00a0*MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong>
\n20.35. San Francisco at San Diego (Cain – Volquez)<\/p>\n

Friday 8 June<\/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":"

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