{"id":18813,"date":"2015-06-01T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2015-05-31T19:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T18:31:57","slug":"mlb-this-week-astros-and-twins-on-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18813","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: Astros and Twins on show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><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>We&#8217;ve got eight MLB games to enjoy this working week starting before midnight UK time.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers and Rockies are playing a double-header on Tuesday and the first game will get going at 20.10 BST. Zack Greinke would be LA&#8217;s starter on his normal schedule, although he may get moved to the night game instead.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday should feature the return to action of the Yankees&#8217; Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka. He missed the whole of May due to problems with his right wrist and forearm so he will probably be on a lower pitch count thatn normal in his first game back. He&#8217;s scheduled to face off against young Mariners righty Taijuan Walker who was terrific in his last start on Friday against Cleveland, striking out eight over eight scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, heading into the season neutrals would not have been excited by the prospect of catching games involving the Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins, yet their strong form has provided two of the biggest surprises so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 1 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 2 June<\/h2>\n<p>20.10. Dodgers at Rockies (Greinke &#8211; De La Rosa)<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 3 June<\/h2>\n<p>18:45. Brewers at Cardinals (Nelson &#8211; Lackey)<strong> *BT Sport2<\/strong><br \/>\n20:40. Braves at D-Backs (Foltynewicz &#8211; De La Rosa)<br \/>\n20:40. Yankees at Mariners (Tanaka &#8211; Walker)<br \/>\n20:45. Pirates at Giants (Liriano &#8211; Hudson) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game, ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 4 June<\/h2>\n<p>18:08. Athletics at Tigers (Hahn &#8211; Sanchez) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game<\/strong>, <strong>ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n19:10. Orioles at Astros (Chen &#8211; Keuchel)<br \/>\n21:05. Twins at Red Sox (Gibson &#8211; Wright) *<strong>ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Friday 5 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><em>All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18630\">MLB.TV subscription<\/a>. TV coverage of MLB comes courtesy of the BT Sport and ESPN channels and these are highlighted above, as are any games that are available to view online for free via MLB.com. The above list of games just shows those starting before midnight UK time. The full schedule of MLB games can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">MLB.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got eight MLB games to enjoy this working week starting before midnight UK 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":[82,532,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-18813","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\/18813","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=18813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18817,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18813\/revisions\/18817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}