{"id":14620,"date":"2012-09-17T12:53:24","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T11:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2012-09-19T08:35:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T07:35:01","slug":"nine-early-mlb-games-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=14620","title":{"rendered":"Nine early MLB games this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This working week’s schedule of early MLB games is a little unusual.<\/p>\n

We have a game each on Monday and Friday, typically days of the week where you only occasionally see day-games being played, whilst we come up empty on the most popular weekday for daytime baseball over the last two seasons, Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This is in part due to the time of year. \u00c2\u00a0Monday’s game from the heart of the AL Central division battle is an example of teams needing to squeeze games in as the regular season draws to a close, while it’s probably the case that some games that could have been moved to the daytime on Wednesday are being played in the evening to allow as many fans as possible the chance to come out and support their team at this crucial part of the year.<\/p>\n

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

Monday 17 September<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.10. Detroit at Chicago White Sox (Fister – Quintana)<\/p>\n

Tuesday 18 September<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 19 September<\/strong><\/p>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Thursday 20 September<\/strong><\/p>\n

17.05. Minnesota at Cleveland (Vasquez – Kluber)
\n18.05. Oakland at Detroit (Milone – Sanchez) *ESPN America<\/strong>
\n18.45. Houston at St. Louis (Norris – Kelly)
\n19.20. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs (Arroyo – Berken)
\n20.40. San Diego at Arizona (Richard – Skaggs)
\n20.45. Colorado at San Francisco (Pomeranz – Zito)
\n21.05. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (Fiers – Rodriguez)<\/p>\n

Friday 21 September<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.20. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs (Carpenter – Volstad) *ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n

MLB isn’t the only important baseball being played this week. The World Baseball Classic qualifier groups 1 and 2 are taking place in Florida and Germany respectively.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s still no official word on any TV coverage of the Group 2 games,\u00c2\u00a0which includes\u00c2\u00a0Team GB,\u00c2\u00a0and that\u00c2\u00a0suggests we’ll be out of luck; however the MLB.com Media Center guide does include some WBC qualifiers on the list, including Great Britain’s game on Thursday against Canada, so it’s possible they will be available to watch online.<\/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":"

MLB early games on Monday, Thursday and Friday<\/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-14620","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\/14620","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=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14652,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions\/14652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}