{"id":19339,"date":"2016-06-06T00:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T23:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19339"},"modified":"2016-06-05T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:37:18","slug":"mlb-this-week-tor-det-hou-tex-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19339","title":{"rendered":"MLB This Week: TOR-DET, HOU-TEX and more"},"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 have a smaller group of early MLB games to enjoy this working week after a bumper crop last week.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday is the main evening for your baseball fix at a convenient time in the UK. The Toronto-Detroit three-game series early this week should be a good one and we&#8217;ll get to see the final game on Wednesday with R.A. Dickey and Jordan Zimmermann currently in line to be the starting pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>The Lone Star State series should also be well worth watching, especially thanks to Houston&#8217;s recent surge in form. The Astros and Rangers meet for a four-game series this week and Thursday&#8217;s finale is a day-game for us to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 6 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 7 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 8 June<\/h2>\n<p>18.05. Chicago Cubs at Philadelphia (Lackey &#8211; Velasquez)<br \/>\n18.10. Toronto at Detroit (Dickey &#8211; Zimmermann)<br \/>\n20.40. Atlanta at San Diego (Teheran &#8211; Pomeranz)<br \/>\n20.40. Tampa Bay at Arizona (Odorizzi &#8211; Bradley) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 9 June<\/h2>\n<p>19.05. Houston at Texas (McHugh &#8211; Perez) <strong>*BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n22.10. Pittsburgh at Colorado (Locke &#8211; Bettis) <strong>*MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Friday 10 June<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/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 have a smaller group of early MLB games to enjoy this working week after a bumper crop last 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],"tags":[82,532,535,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-19339","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\/19339","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=19339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19340,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19339\/revisions\/19340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}