{"id":19404,"date":"2016-08-08T00:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T23:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19404"},"modified":"2016-08-07T21:15:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T20:15:18","slug":"mlb-this-week-add-some-baseball-your-sport-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19404","title":{"rendered":"MLB This Week: Add some baseball your sport banquet"},"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>There&#8217;s plenty of sport on the go at the moment, with the football season starting, Test cricket in full swing and the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>You can never have enough of a good thing, though, and if sport&#8217;s your thing then why not add some live baseball to your banquet of sport to enjoy? It will be an Olympic sport again in 2020, after all.<\/p>\n<p>There are early MLB games on every day this working week except for Monday. The games include a couple from the Rockies-Rangers interleague split series (the first in Colorado, the second in Texas), a strong interleague match-up between the Indians and Nationals on Wednesday and a treat to start the weekend with the Cubs hosting the Cards in a potential Wainwright-Arrieta starting pitcher match-up.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 8 August<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 9 August<\/h2>\n<p>20.10. Texas at Colorado (Griffin &#8211; Chatwood)<strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 10 August<\/h2>\n<p>17.10. San Francisco at Miami (Samardzija &#8211; Phelps) <strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN, MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><br \/>\n20.10. Philadelphia at LA Dodgers (Hellickson &#8211; Kazmir) <strong> *BT Sport2<\/strong><br \/>\n21.05. Cleveland at Washington (Clevinger &#8211; Gonzalez)<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 11 August<\/h2>\n<p>17.10. Arizona at NY Mets (Godley &#8211; Syndergaard) <strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n17.35. San Diego at Pittsburgh (Friedrich &#8211; Taillon)<br \/>\n18.10. Houston at Minnesota (Fister &#8211; Berrios)<br \/>\n19.05. Colorado at Texas (Bettis &#8211; Harrell)<br \/>\n19.10. Atlanta at Milwaukee (TBA &#8211; Garza)<br \/>\n20.35. Baltimore at Oakland (Tillman &#8211; TBA) <strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Friday 12 August<\/h2>\n<p>19.20. St Louis at Chicago Cubs (Wainwright &#8211; Arrieta) <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>There&#8217;s plenty of sport on the go at the moment, with the football season starting, Test cricket in full swing and the Olympics<\/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-19404","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\/19404","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=19404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19406,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19404\/revisions\/19406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}