{"id":14377,"date":"2012-08-20T19:55:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T18:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14377"},"modified":"2012-08-20T19:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T18:55:01","slug":"the-final-quarter-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14377","title":{"rendered":"The final quarter begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovHlWE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11196\" title=\"CovHlWE\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovHlWE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re in to the final quarter of the MLB regular season.<\/p>\n<p>It makes every series, and every winning or losing streak, feel just that little bit more important.<\/p>\n<p>There are several eye-catching series this week between playoff contenders, most notably Atlanta at Washington, Baltimore at\u00c2\u00a0Texas, New York Yankees at Chicago White Sox, L.A. Angels at Boston and San Francisco Giants at L.A. Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a shame that none of these series are scheduled to include a day-game, but we will be\u00c2\u00a0able to see several playoff contenders in action this working week and the highlight of the pre-midnight U.K. time schedule should come on Thursday with Justin Verlander starting against the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 20 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 21 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 22 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18.10. Kansas City at Tampa Bay (Mendoza &#8211; Shields)<strong> *ESPN America<\/strong><br \/>\n19.10. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee (Wood &#8211; Gallardo)<br \/>\n20.35. Minnesota at Oakland (Blackburn &#8211; Milone)<br \/>\n20.40. Cleveland at Seattle (McAllister &#8211; Iwakuma)<br \/>\n20.40. Miami at Arizona (LeBlanc &#8211; Miley)<br \/>\n23.35. Pittsburgh at San Diego (McDonald &#8211; TBA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 23 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18.05. Toronto at Detroit (Happ &#8211; Verlander) <strong>*ESPN America<\/strong><br \/>\n18.10. Colorado at NY Mets (Chatwood &#8211; Santana)\u00c2\u00a0<strong> *MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong><br \/>\n18.45. Houston at St. Louis (Keuchel &#8211; Westbrook)<strong> *BBC 5 Live Sports Extra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 24 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19.20. Colorado at Chicago Cubs (Pomeranz &#8211; Samardzija)<strong> *ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>All of these games are available to watch live via the <\/em><em>MLB.TV subscription<\/em><em> at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/subscriptions\/index.jsp?product=mlbtv&amp;affiliateId=mlbMENU\"><em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The early games being shown on ESPN America are highlighted above, while the full ESPN\/ESPN America schedule can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espnamerica.com\/gb\/f1\/sports-on-espn-america\/baseball\/mlb-on-espn-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">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><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/?tcid=mm_mlb_schedule\"><em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 pre-midnight U.K. time games this working week<\/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":[226,225,82,25,503,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-14377","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-featured","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377","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=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14384,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions\/14384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}