{"id":18334,"date":"2014-09-15T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18334"},"modified":"2014-09-22T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T18:18:56","slug":"mlb-this-week-four-to-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18334","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: Four to enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CovMLBUK2014\"<\/a>As we head into the final couple of weeks of the regular season, the number of day-games can tend to reduce as teams maximise revenue from the home games they’ve got left by playing them in the evening.<\/p>\n

That’s good news for fans Stateside that want to watch their team, but does limit the number of games we can watch live at a convenient time during the working week from the UK.<\/p>\n

However, what we lack in numbers this week – with only four games scheduled to start before midnight UK time – we make up for in their importance.<\/p>\n

The LA Dodgers and San Francisco Giants are battling for the NL West crown, and to avoid the Wild Card play-in game, and both teams are in action on Wednesday taking on the Rockies and D-Backs respectively.<\/p>\n

Fans of the Dodgers can also catch their team live during the British evening on Friday as LA travel to Wrigley Field to take on the Cubs. Clayton Kershaw would be the starting pitcher for the Dodgers if he stays on his normal rotation schedule.<\/p>\n

In between it’s the turn of the AL West to take centre stage on Thursday as the Oakland A’s host the Texas Rangers. The last month or so has been painful for A’s fans as what looked-like being a run towards their third consecutive division title has turned into an almighty scrap just to keep hold of a Wild Card place.<\/p>\n

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

Monday 15 September<\/h2>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Tuesday 16 September<\/h2>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 17 September<\/h2>\n

20.10. LA Dodgers at Colorado (TBA- De La Rosa) *MLB.com Free Game<\/strong>
\n20.40. San Francisco at Arizona (Bumgarner – Delgado) *ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 18 September<\/h2>\n

20.35. Texas at Oakland (Holland – Hammel) *ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 19 September<\/h2>\n

19.20. LA Dodgers at Chicago Cubs (Kershaw – Doubront)<\/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":"

As we head into the final couple of weeks of the regular season, the number of day-games can tend to reduce as teams maximise revenue from the home games they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got left by playing them in the evening.<\/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-18334","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\/18334","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=18334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18353,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18334\/revisions\/18353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}