{"id":13824,"date":"2012-06-18T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13824"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T11:42:24","slug":"first-england-then-early-mlb-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13824","title":{"rendered":"First England, then early MLB games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There are no early MLB games on the first two days of the working week, so\u00c2\u00a0the conclusion of the First Round of\u00c2\u00a0Euro 2012 can take precedence on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Monday gives England fans time to worry about all the possible permutations\u00c2\u00a0of the game against the Ukraine before we are put through the mill again on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Baseball then takes over on the next two days.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the ESPN America website can cast their vote as to which of two games they want to watch on Wednesday. The Houston Astros’ good form in the late\u00c2\u00a01990s and early 2000s, coinciding with 5’s MLB coverage, means that they have a decent core of fans in the U.K.; however I would be surprised if a Royals v Astros clash won in the popularity stakes over Blue Jays v Brewers.<\/p>\n

Toronto\u00c2\u00a0have suffered dreadfully bad luck over the last week in losing\u00c2\u00a0Brandon Morrow, Kyle Drabek and Drew Hutchison to injuries. Former Brewer Brett Lawrie, who was sent to Toronto in the December 2010 trade for Shaun Marcum, didn’t leave his former team on the best of terms and you can be certain that he will want to make a big statement in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the Cardinals and Tigers complete their series with Jacob Turner, the Tigers’ top young pitching prospect, expected to be called up from Triple-A. Turner made three spot starts for Detroit last year and he has a 2.83 ERA over 11 starts in the Minors this season after dealing with shoulder tendinitis during Spring Training.<\/p>\n

Nat Coombs and Josh Chetwynd will provide coverage of the Dodgers-A’s game on\u00c2\u00a0BBC Radio and\u00c2\u00a0it’s an excellent pitching match-up in prospect with established star Clayton Kershaw and a promising rookie in Jarrod Parker [EDIT<\/strong>: the A’s have shuffled their rotation, so Australian Travis Blackley will now start this game instead].<\/p>\n

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

Monday 18 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Tuesday 19 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 20 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

18.05. Atlanta at NY Yankees (Hanson – Hughes)
\n19.05. Kansas City at Houston (Mazzaro – Lyles) *ESPN America?<\/strong>
\n19.10. Toronto at Milwaukee (TBA – Gallardo) \u00c2\u00a0*ESPN America?<\/strong>
\n20.40. Seattle at Arizona (Vargas – Cahill) *MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong>
\n23.35. Texas at San Diego (Darvish – Bass)<\/p>\n

Thursday 21 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

18.05. St. Louis at Detroit (Lohse – Crosby) *ESPN America, *MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong>
\n20.35. LA Dodgers at Oakland (Kershaw – Blackley) *BBC 5 Live Sports Extra<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 22 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games.<\/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":"

Dodgers v A’s on BBC Radio on Thursday evening<\/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":[226,225,82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-13824","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-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824","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=13824"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13952,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13824\/revisions\/13952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}