{"id":18126,"date":"2014-06-16T10:10:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18126"},"modified":"2014-06-16T10:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T09:10:46","slug":"mlb-this-week-15-early-mlb-games-and-college-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18126","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: 15 early MLB games (and College World Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CovMLBUK2014\"<\/a>Thursday is known as the ‘Get-away’ day in MLB as games tend to be played during the day-time so that one or both teams can then get on a plane to travel to the destination of their weekend series.<\/p>\n

This week, the term could be applied by England fans that see MLB as offering a chance to ‘get-away’ from the stress of the all-important World Cup group game against Uruguay. Whether that means catching some baseball in the pre-match hours to calm the nerves, or providing a distraction if the England game starts badly, we’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

There are three MLB games starting prior to the 20.00 England kick-off, with the game between Milwaukee and Arizona starting just before half-time if Luis Suarez has already sunk our chance by that point.<\/p>\n

Those contests are part of a good selection of 15 MLB games starting before midnight U.K. time this working week. The College Baseball World Series is also in full swing and on a couple of nights this week we’re in a very rare (unprecedented?) position of having a choice of baseball games to watch on British TV, with BT Sport2 covering an MLB game and ESPN broadcasting a College World Series game.<\/p>\n

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

Monday 16 June<\/h2>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Tuesday 17 June<\/h2>\n

20.40. San Diego at Seattle (Stults – Elias) *BT Sport2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday 18 June<\/h2>\n

17:10 Philadelphia at Atlanta (Hernandez\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Harang)
\n17:40 Chicago Cubs at Miami (Arrieta\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Eovaldi)
\n18:08 Kansas City at Detroit (Guthrie\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Smyly)
\n<\/span>18:10 Baltimore at Tampa Bay (Gausman\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Cobb)
\n18:35 Minnesota at Boston (Gibson\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Lackey)
\n18:45 NY Mets at St. Louis (Colon\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Lynn)
\n19:10 San Francisco at Chicago White Sox (Hudson\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Sale)
\n20:35 Texas at Oakland (Tepesch\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Gray) *ESPN, MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 19 June<\/h2>\n

17:05 LA Angels at Cleveland (Richards\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0McAllister)
\n17:35 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (Bailey\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Locke) *ESPN<\/strong>
\n18:08 Kansas City at Detroit (Duffy\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Sanchez)
\n20:40 Milwaukee at Arizona (Gallardo\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Collmenter)\u00c2\u00a0*ESPN<\/strong>
\n23:40 Seattle at San Diego (Ramirez\u00c2\u00a0-\u00c2\u00a0Hahn)\u00c2\u00a0*MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 20 June<\/h2>\n

21.05. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs (Morton – Jackson)\u00c2\u00a0*BT Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of these games are available to watch live via the\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>MLB.TV subscription<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0at\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>MLB.com<\/em><\/a>. The early games being shown on BT Sport or ESPN are highlighted above. The complete schedule for this week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MLB games can be found on\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>MLB.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are several early MLB games on Thursday to help keep the pre-England game nerves at bay and perhaps to offer a distraction if things start going badly wrong in Brazil. ESPN is also providing coverage of the College World Series<\/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":[82,532,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-18126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bst-guide","tag-bt-sport","tag-espn","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18126","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=18126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18129,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18126\/revisions\/18129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}