{"id":13876,"date":"2012-06-25T19:20:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T18:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2012-07-13T12:41:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T11:41:53","slug":"after-englands-euro-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=13876","title":{"rendered":"After England’s Euro exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Following Sunday night’s penalty shoot-out heartbreak, this week’s preview of the MLB games starting before midnight U.K. time doesn’t have to take potential England game clashes into account.<\/p>\n

Thursday evening could have been taken up by a semi-final against Germany. Instead, we can follow the two MLB games scheduled for that evening while Italy take on the impressive German team. There’s a part of me that thinks losing on penalties in the quarter-finals might be a preferable exit to getting thumped by Germany for the second consecutive major tournament, although I suspect New York Mets reliever Frank Francisco would have a word on the tip of his tongue ready to describe that attitude.<\/p>\n

Anyway, MLB now reverts back to the normal (for the remainder of this season, at least) pattern of AL and NL play. After drawing an ‘early’ game blank on Monday and Tuesday, there are eight games to choose from on Wednesday including games between the Brewers and Reds, Blue Jays and Red Sox, and Dodgers and Giants. The Chicago White Sox should have the exciting young pitcher Chris Sale on the mound for their game against the Twins, which could also be the first ‘early’ game opportunity to watch the newly acquired Kevin Youkilis playing in a White rather than Red Sox uniform.<\/p>\n

Citizens Bank Park and Coors Field host early games on Thursday before the working week is brought to a close with an Astros-Cubs game from Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n

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

Monday 25 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Tuesday 26 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 27 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.35. Milwaukee at Cincinnati (Greinke – Bailey)
\n18.05. Cleveland at NY Yankees (Jimenez – Pettitte)
\n18.10. Chicago White Sox at Minnesota (Sale – Blackburn) *ESPN America<\/strong>
\n18.35. Toronto at Boston (Romero – Lester)
\n19.10. Tampa Bay at Kansas City (Moore – Mazzaro) *MLB.com\u00c2\u00a0Free Game of the Day<\/strong>
\n19.20. NY Mets at Chicago Cubs (Niese – Samardzija)
\n20.40. Oakland at Seattle (Parker – Millwood)
\n20.45. LA Dodgers at San Francisco (Billingsley – Lincecum)<\/p>\n

Thursday 28 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

18.05. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (Burnett – Kendrick) *ESPN America<\/strong>
\n20.10. Washington at Colorado (Jackson – White)<\/p>\n

Friday 29 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.20. Houston at Chicago Cubs (Happ – Maholm) *ESPN America<\/strong><\/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 There is no Thursday evening game on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra this week. 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":"

Let baseball take your mind off England’s Euro exit<\/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":[82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","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\/13876","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=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14117,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/14117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}