{"id":14142,"date":"2012-07-16T07:01:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14142"},"modified":"2012-07-16T18:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T17:53:53","slug":"early-mlb-games-on-wednesday-and-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14142","title":{"rendered":"Early MLB games on Wednesday and Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a week of feast and famine for MLB games starting before midnight U.K. time.<\/p>\n

There are no early games on Monday, Tuesday and Friday; however there are fourteen such games combined on Wednesday and Thursday and, subject to any scheduling changes, they include some excellent pitching match-ups.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good match-up in New York with Ricky Romero and Hiroki Kuroda, while James McDonald should be pitching for the Pirates against the Rockies. The two big match-ups though will be at Miller Park and Dodger Stadium. (Update:<\/strong> with all due respect to Tyler Thornburg, that’s changed in the latter case by the Brewers’ decision to skip Zack Greinke from his scheduled start).<\/p>\n

Thursday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early games include four first pitches before six o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock. The day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s play starts off with a pitching match-up at Turner Field between Madison Bumgarner and Tim Hudson. The Mets\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 R.A. Dickey was hit around a bit by the Braves last time out and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll look to re-find his excellent first-half form against the Washington Nationals, who should counter with Gio Gonzalez.<\/p>\n

A little later in the evening, King Felix Hernandez is the probable pitcher for the Mariners. He absolutely dominated the hard-hitting Rangers last time out. Good luck to the Royals hitters not getting a day off on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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

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

No early games<\/p>\n

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

No early games<\/p>\n

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

18.05. Toronto at NY Yankees (Romero – Kuroda)
\n19.10. St. Louis at Milwaukee (Wainwright \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Thornburg)
\n20.10. Philadelphia at LA Dodgers (Lee \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Kershaw)
\n20.10. Pittsburgh at Colorado (McDonald \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Guthrie)
\n20.35. Texas at Oakland (Lewis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Blackley) *ESPN America
\n<\/strong>20.35. Houston at San Diego (Rodriguez \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Richard) *MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

17.10. San Francisco at Atlanta (Bumgarner – Hudson)
\n17.10. Cleveland at Tampa Bay (Jimenez – Price)
\n17.35. Arizona at Cincinnati (Saunders – Leake)
\n17.35. NY Mets at Washington (Dickey – Gonzalez)
\n18.05. LA Angels at Detroit (Williams – Scherzer) *ESPN America
\n<\/strong>18.10. Baltimore at Minnesota (Chen – De Vries)
\n19.10. Seattle at Kansas City (Hernandez – Hochevar) *MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong>
\n19.20. Miami at Chicago Cubs (Buehrle – Maholm)<\/p>\n

Friday 20 July<\/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":"

14 pre-midnight MLB starts combined on Wednesday and Thursday<\/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":[82,25,503,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","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\/14142","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=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14150,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions\/14150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}