{"id":18910,"date":"2015-08-10T19:44:16","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18910"},"modified":"2015-08-10T19:44:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T18:44:16","slug":"mlb-this-week-10-to-choose-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18910","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: 10 to choose from"},"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>We&#8217;ve got ten early MLB games this working week after a slow start to the pre-midnight schedule on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The games include some of the playoff contenders looking to add wins to their collections.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros and San Francisco Giants are playing a short two-game interleague series this week, which seems strange to type after the Astros were a National League team for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will be looking for a return to better form. Houston will go into the series having lost six of their previous seven games, including their last three against the A&#8217;s, whilst the Giants are reeling from being swept in a four-game series by the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday brings games including the Mets, Blue Jays and Cubs, whilst on Friday we have the first game from the latest Windy City series.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere Jose Fernandez was scheduled to start on Wednesday against Boston, but a right biceps strain will see him back on the Disabled List instead.<\/p>\n<p>All times listed in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 10 August<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 11 August<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 12 August<\/h2>\n<p>20.40. Baltimore at Seattle (Gausman &#8211; Iwakuma)<br \/>\n20.40. Cincinnati at San Diego (Iglesias &#8211; Shields)<br \/>\n20.40. Philadelphia at Arizona (Nola &#8211; Anderson)<br \/>\n20.45. Houston at San Francisco (Keuchel &#8211; Heston) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game, BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n21.10. Boston at Miami (Rodriguez &#8211; TBA)<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 13 August<\/h2>\n<p>17.10. Colorado at NY Mets (Butler &#8211; Syndergaard)<br \/>\n17.37. Oakland at Toronto (Gray &#8211; Dickey)<br \/>\n18.10. Texas at Minnesota (Hamels &#8211; Pelfrey) *<strong>BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n19.20. Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs (Cravy &#8211; Lester) <strong>*BT Sport2<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Friday 14 August<\/h2>\n<p>21.10. Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox *<strong>BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/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 ten early MLB games this working week after a slow start to the pre-midnight schedule on Monday and Tuesday<\/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-18910","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\/18910","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=18910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18914,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18910\/revisions\/18914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}