{"id":17986,"date":"2014-04-21T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T08:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=17986"},"modified":"2014-04-21T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T08:56:59","slug":"mlb-this-week-tex-oak-scherzer-and-colon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=17986","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: TEX-OAK, Scherzer and Colon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17885\" alt=\"CovMLBUK2014\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>There are 12 games this working week that are scheduled to start before midnight, U.K. time.<\/p>\n<p>The week starts with the traditional early game at Fenway Park on Patriots Day, which will be an emotional occasion on the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>After a break on Tuesday we have a batch of games on Wednesday highlighted by a clash between the top two teams in the AL West, the Rangers and A&#8217;s. With Martin Perez and Sonny Gray being the probable starting pitchers, it should be an exciting game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Get-away&#8217; Thursday offers six day-games including a Max Scherzer start for the Tigers and a Bartolo Colon start for the Mets. The latter continues to defy his age &#8211; and physique &#8211; with his pitching performances, whilst providing a regular source of amusement when his turns at-bat come around.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 21 April<\/h2>\n<p>16.05. Baltimore at Boston (Chen &#8211; Buchholz) <strong>*ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 22 April<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 23 April<\/h2>\n<p>17.10. Miami at Atlanta (Eovalid &#8211; Harang)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>*ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n19.20. Arizona at Chicago Cubs (Miley &#8211; Samardzija)<br \/>\n20.10. San Francisco at Colorado (Cain &#8211; Chatwood)<br \/>\n20.35. Texas at Oakland (Perez &#8211; Gray)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>*ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n20.40. Houston at Seattle (Cosart &#8211; Young) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 24 April<\/h2>\n<p>17.05. Kansas City at Cleveland (Chen &#8211; Kluber)<br \/>\n17.35. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (Cingrani &#8211; Rodriguez)<br \/>\n18.08. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (Quintana &#8211; Scherzer)<br \/>\n18.10. St. Louis at NY Mets (Lynn &#8211; Colon)<br \/>\n18.10. Minnesota at Tampa Bay (Nolasco &#8211; Bedard)\u00c2\u00a0<strong>*ESPN, MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><br \/>\n19.20. Arizona at Chicago Cubs (Bolsinger &#8211; Jackson)<\/p>\n<h2>Friday 25 April<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/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>. The early games being shown on ESPN are highlighted above. 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>There are 12 games this working week that are scheduled to start before midnight, U.K. time<\/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":[82,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-17986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bst-guide","tag-espn","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986","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=17986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17989,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17986\/revisions\/17989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}