{"id":14218,"date":"2012-07-28T14:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T13:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14218"},"modified":"2012-07-29T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T10:31:08","slug":"five-mlb-games-on-saturday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14218","title":{"rendered":"Five MLB games on Saturday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many of the\u00c2\u00a0British nation are currently under the spell of Olympic-mania after last night’s Opening Ceremony.<\/p>\n

There is undoubtedly a lot to be excited about as a sports fan; however it’s difficult not to mix in a hint of disappointment as a baseball fan.<\/p>\n

We’ve known for a depressingly long time that our sport, alongside softball, would not be a part of London 2012, but the full impact of that is really hitting home now as we can all see just how incredible it would have been.<\/p>\n

There’s no Olympic baseball tournament, but on Saturday\u00c2\u00a0evening MLB provides five games that we can watch before midnight to add to our sporting weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are in BST.<\/p>\n

18.05. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs (Kelly – Samardzija)
\n18.07. Detroit at Toronto (Sanchez – Alvarez) *ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cardinals and Cubs were the warm-up act for my Olympic ceremony viewing last night and there was no shortage of action at Wrigley Field. The Cards won 9-6 and took Cubs starter Travis Wood deep five times.\u00c2\u00a0 Jeff Samardzija looks to lead the fightback today.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile Anibal Sanchez makes his Tigers debut in Toronto having been acquired by Detroit in a trade with the Miami Marlins earlier this week.<\/p>\n

21.05. Boston at NY Yankees (Lester – Sabathia) *ESPN America<\/strong>
\n21.05. LA Dodgers at San Francisco (Billingsley – Zito)
\n21.10. Kansas City at Seattle (Chen – Millwood)<\/p>\n

We’ve got games from two of the great baseball rivalries starting at 21.05 and they should give us a chance to see two of the biggest names to have found new teams in the past week.<\/p>\n

Hanley Ramirez is quickly settling into life as a Dodger and he hit a two-run homer in the tenth inning yesterday to lead his team past the Giants. Ichiro Suzuki scored two of the Yankees’ 10 runs against Boston last night as the Bronx Bombers won the first game of a series that they hope will see them push their\u00c2\u00a0bitter rivals even further away from playoff contention.<\/p>\n

Fans of the Royals and Mariners likely to be the only ones turning their attention to Safeco Field rather than Yankee Stadium or AT&T Park.<\/p>\n

All of these games are available to watch live via the <\/em>MLB.TV subscription<\/em> at <\/em>MLB.com<\/a>, while <\/em>ESPN America has a baseball triple-header\u00c2\u00a0with the two games\u00c2\u00a0noted above being followed by Cincinnati at Colorado from 1 a.m.\u00c2\u00a0 The full schedule for today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s games can be found on <\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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