{"id":19300,"date":"2016-05-02T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19300"},"modified":"2016-05-02T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:54:18","slug":"mlb-this-week-wonderful-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19300","title":{"rendered":"MLB This Week: Wonderful Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/CovMLBUK2014.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17885\"><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 a good batch of early games to enjoy this week, including eight on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The games from the Detroit-Cleveland series all start at 23.10 BST so they slip under the pre-midnight cut-off, but aren&#8217;t quite as convenient to watch as the &#8216;early&#8217; game designation normally means.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday is packed full of interesting match-ups at a good time for us in the UK to watch. The games include one from the Cubs-Pirates series, Stephen Strasburg taking on the Kansas City Royals, and Felix Hernandez matching up against Oakland A&#8217;s rookie Sean Manaea in what will be the latter&#8217;s second MLB start (accepting the usual caveat that starting pitchers are always subject to change depending on postponements etc).<\/p>\n<p>The working week ends with an early Friday game from Wrigley Field for the second week running. This time it&#8217;s the Nationals that are in Chicago for what should be an excellent weekend series.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 2 May<\/h2>\n<p>No early games.<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 3 May<\/h2>\n<p>23.10. Detroit at Cleveland (Verlander &#8211; Tomlin) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 4 May<\/h2>\n<p>17.35. San Francisco at Cincinnati (Peavy &#8211; Straily)<br \/>\n17.35. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh (Lester &#8211; Nicasio) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n18.10. Atlanta at NY Mets (Chacin &#8211; Matz)<br \/>\n18.40. LA Angels at Milwaukee (Santiago &#8211; Davies) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><br \/>\n19.15. Washington at Kansas City (Strasburg &#8211; Medlen)<br \/>\n20.35. Seattle at Oakland (Hernandez &#8211; Manaea)<br \/>\n20.40. Colorado at San Diego (Chatwood &#8211; Vargas) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n23.10. Detroit at Cleveland (Sanchez &#8211; Kluber)<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 5 May<\/h2>\n<p>18.45. Philadelphia at St Louis (Eickhoff &#8211; Garcia) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n23.10. Detroit at Cleveland (Fulmer &#8211; Bauer)<\/p>\n<h2>Friday 6 May<\/h2>\n<p>19.20. Washington at Chicago Cubs (Scherzer &#8211; Lackey) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/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=19105\"><i>MLB.TV subscription<\/i><\/a><i>. TV coverage of MLB comes courtesy of the BT Sport 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got a good batch of early games to enjoy this week, including eight on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[82,532,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-19300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","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\/19300","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=19300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19303,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19300\/revisions\/19303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}