{"id":18259,"date":"2014-08-11T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T19:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18259"},"modified":"2014-08-18T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:27:17","slug":"mlb-this-week-nine-games-to-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18259","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: Nine games to enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17885\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\" alt=\"CovMLBUK2014\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>There are nine MLB games scheduled to start before midnight U.K. time this working week.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday provides the most eye-catching games. There&#8217;s the fourth game of a big series between the Dodgers and Braves, a Max Scherzer start for the Detroit Tigers against the Pirates in Interleague play, and an exciting match-up in prospect from Kansas City where the A&#8217;s are scheduled to send Jeff Samardzija to the mound against James Shields.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week, the Mets and Phillies end their latest series with an early start on Monday, and there are four games on Monday including the Boston Red Sox playing an Intlereague encounter against the Cincinnati Reds at the Great American Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 11 August<\/h2>\n<p>18:05. NY Mets at Philadelphia (Niese &#8211; Buchanan)<strong> *ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 12 August<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 13 August<\/h2>\n<p>17:35. Boston at Cincinnati (Webster vs Bailey) <strong> *ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n19:10. Minnesota at Houston (Gibson vs Oberholtzer)<br \/>\n20:45. Chicago White Sox at San Francisco (Quintana vs Peavy) <strong> *ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n23:40. Colorado at San Diego (Matzek vs Kennedy)<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 14 August<\/h2>\n<p>17:10. LA Dodgers at Atlanta (Hernandez vs Harang)<br \/>\n18:08. Pittsburgh at Detroit (Liriano vs Scherzer)<br \/>\n19:10. Oakland at Kansas City (Samardzija vs Shields) <strong> *ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n19:20. Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs (Fiers vs Jackson)<\/p>\n<h2>Friday 15 August<\/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 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><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 nine MLB games scheduled to start before midnight U.K. time this working week. Thursday provides the most eye-catching games<\/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-18259","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\/18259","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=18259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18270,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions\/18270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}