{"id":18009,"date":"2014-04-28T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T23:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18009"},"modified":"2014-04-28T08:41:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T07:41:34","slug":"mlb-this-week-four-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18009","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: Four games"},"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>It&#8217;s going to be a week of catching up on highlights and archived games during the British evening in the main as there are only four day-games taking place this working week in MLB<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 28 April<\/h2>\n<p>No early games (and only seven MLB games at night)<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 29 April<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 30 April<\/h2>\n<p>18.45. Milwaukee at St. Louis\u00c2\u00a0(Garza &#8211; Miller) <strong>*ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third game of a three-game set as the team that enter this week with the best record in MLB\u00c2\u00a0takes on\u00c2\u00a0last year&#8217;s National League champs.<\/p>\n<p>19.10. Detroit at Chicago White Sox (Porcello &#8211; TBA)<\/p>\n<p>Staying in the Central but moving across to the American League, this would have been Erik Johnson&#8217;s starting slot for Chicago but a 1.1 inning outing against the Rays on Friday saw him demoted to Triple-A. We&#8217;ll wait and see who the White Sox move into the rotation as a result.<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 1 May<\/h2>\n<p>18.10. LA Dodgers at Minnesota (Beckett &#8211; Correia) <strong>*ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first day of May offers us just one early game. It might seem like a mismatch on paper, but the beauty of baseball is that you never know what might happen on a given day. The Dodgers will be hoping that Josh Beckett&#8217;s strong eight-inning performance against the Rockies on Friday is a sign of good things to come.<\/p>\n<h2>Friday 2 May<\/h2>\n<p>19.20. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs (Lyons &#8211; Arrieta) <strong>*ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A slow week for day-games does at least end on a high with a contest from Wrigley Field with a classic rivalry between the Cardinals and Cubs.<\/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 two day-games on Wednesday then one apiece on 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":[82,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-18009","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\/18009","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=18009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18012,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18009\/revisions\/18012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}