{"id":16692,"date":"2013-05-13T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=16692"},"modified":"2013-05-13T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:21:34","slug":"mlb-this-week-good-games-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=16692","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: Good games ahead"},"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>The working week of MLB games starting before midnight U.K. time begins on Monday with a rare double-header in which both games fall in the &#8216;early&#8217; bracket.<\/p>\n<p>We then have a good group of games to choose from on Wednesday, before a Mets-Cardinals clash on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra on Thursday and a Mets-Cubs contest on Friday in which, providing New York&#8217;s rotation stays on its normal schedule, we&#8217;ll get a chance to watch one of the most exciting young pitchers in the game: Matt Harvey.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 13 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.05. NY Yankees at Cleveland (Phelps &#8211; Masterson)<br \/>\n20.35. NY Yankees at Cleveland (Nuno &#8211; Bauer)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 14 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 15 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.35. San Diego at Baltimore (Marquis &#8211; Garcia)<strong> *ESPN America<\/strong><br \/>\n18.05. Cleveland at Philadelphia (Kluber &#8211; Hamels)<br \/>\n18.08. Houston at Detroit (Keuchel &#8211; Scherzer)<br \/>\n18.10. Chicago White Sox at Minnesota (Axelrod &#8211; Pelfrey)<strong> *MLB.com Free Game of the Day<\/strong><br \/>\n20.35. Texas at Oakland\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0(Ogando &#8211; Straily) <strong>*ESPN America<\/strong><br \/>\n20.40. Atlanta at Arizona (Hudson &#8211; Kennedy)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 16 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18.45. NY Mets at St. Louis (Niese &#8211; Wainwright) <strong>*BBC 5LSX, ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 17 May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19.20. NY Mets at Chicago Cubs (Harvey &#8211; Jackson) <strong>*ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>All of these games are available to watch live via the\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><em>MLB.TV subscription<\/em><em>\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a0<\/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\u00c2\u00a0<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\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/?tcid=mm_mlb_schedule\">MLB.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s pre-midnight games include a Thursday evening Mets-Cardinals clash on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra and a potential Matt Harvey start against the Cubs on 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":[226,82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-16692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-5-live-sports-extra","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\/16692","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=16692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16695,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions\/16695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}