{"id":18963,"date":"2015-09-21T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18963"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:55:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T19:55:40","slug":"mlb-this-week-two-weeks-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18963","title":{"rendered":"MLB this Week: Two weeks to go"},"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>With just two weeks of the MLB regular season to go, there is still plenty to play for and that&#8217;s shown in the games starting pre-midnight UK time this working week.<\/p>\n<p>The Angels and Astros are playing a potentially crucial three-game series this week and the finale on Wednesday is a day-game for us to enjoy. Meanwhile their rival in the AL West\/Wild Card race the Texas Rangers take on the Oakland A&#8217;s in an early game on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The week will end with the start of a big series from Wrigley Field between the Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>The White Sox and Tigers are in early action twice and although neither team has had the season they hoped for, that&#8217;s unlikely to reduce the enthusiasm on Wednesday if &#8211; as scheduled &#8211; we get a pitching duel between Chris Sale and Justin Verlander.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 21 September<\/h2>\n<p>18.00. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (Samardzija &#8211; Ryan)<strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 22 September<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 23 September<\/h2>\n<p>18.08. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (Sale &#8211; Verlander)<br \/>\n19.10. LA Angels at Houston (TBA &#8211; Fiers) <b>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 24 September<\/h2>\n<p>20.10. Arizona at LA Dodgers (Corbin -\u00c2\u00a0Kershaw) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><br \/>\n20.10. Pittsburgh at Colorado (Locke\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Bettis)<br \/>\n20.35. Texas at Oakland (Gallardo &#8211; Doubront) <b>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Friday 25 September<\/h2>\n<p>19.20. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs (Liriano &#8211; Haren) <b>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=18630\"><i>MLB.TV subscription<\/i><\/a><i>. 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 <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><i>MLB.com<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just two weeks of the MLB regular season to go, there is still plenty to play for and that&#8217;s shown in the games starting pre-midnight UK time this working week<\/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-18963","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\/18963","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=18963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18966,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18963\/revisions\/18966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}