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\"\"<\/a>The three games on Opening Sunday gave us two exciting walk-off victories, a couple of home runs by pitcher Madison Bumgarner and some excellent pitching from Chris Archer and Carlos Martinez.<\/p>\n

Opening Week is sure to provide plenty more entertainment and the great thing is that there are lots of opportunities for us to catch the action at a convenient time in the UK.<\/p>\n

Every Monday I set out the games for the working week ahead that get going before midnight BST. The idea is that the day-games in the States, and therefore evening games for us in the UK, are particularly important to us because we can catch them live at a convenient time.<\/p>\n

Being up in the early hours undoubtedly is part of the British baseball fan experience – the ‘Hardcore’ tribe as Jonny and Josh liked to say on Baseball on 5 – but following games like that every day isn’t feasible for most of us and is a difficult way to attract newcomers to the sport.<\/p>\n

So, here are the early games for this working week. Start times are listed in BST, with a note where the game is being shown on British TV (i.e. one of the BT Sport channels) and also if the game has been chosen as that day’s MLB.com Free Game.<\/p>\n

The Free Game is exactly as named: anyone can watch it live online using MLB.TV without having a subscription. All games are available to view on MLB.TV if you have a subscription.<\/p>\n

Monday 3 April<\/h2>\n

18:05\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Marlins at Nationals (Volquez, Strasburg ) *MLB.com Free Game<\/strong>
\n18:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Braves at Mets (Teheran, Syndergaard ) *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong>
\n19:05\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Pirates at Red Sox (Cole, Porcello )
\n19:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Rockies at Brewers (Gray, Guerra )
\n20:05\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Blue Jays at Orioles (Estrada, Gausman )
\n21:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Tigers at White Sox (Verlander, Quintana )
\n21:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Royals at Twins (Duffy, Santana )
\n21:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Phillies at Reds (Hellickson, Feldman )
\n21:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Padres at Dodgers (Chacin, Kershaw ) *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday 4 April<\/h2>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 5 April<\/h2>\n

18:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Royals at Twins (Kennedy, Santiago )
\n18:45\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Cubs at Cardinals (Lackey, TBD)
\n19:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Tigers at White Sox (TBD, Shields ) *MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday 6 April<\/h2>\n

17:35\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Phillies at Reds (Buchholz , Davis )
\n18:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Royals at Twins (Hammel , Gibson )
\n18:35\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Pirates at Red Sox (Kuhl , Rodriguez ) *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong>
\n18:40\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Rockies at Brewers (TBD, Anderson )
\n19:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Tigers at White Sox (TBD, Holland )
\n20:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Padres at Dodgers (Weaver , TBD)
\n20:35\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Angels at Athletics (TBD, Triggs )
\n21:05\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Marlins at Nationals (Koehler , TBD)<\/p>\n

Friday 7 April<\/h2>\n

18:05\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Braves at Pirates (Dickey , Nova )
\n18:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Red Sox at Tigers (Wright , TBD)
\n20:05\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Nationals at Phillies (TBD, Velasquez )
\n21:10\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0Dodgers at Rockies (TBD, TBD)
\n23:40\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Giants at Padres (TBD, TBD) *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an <\/i>MLB.TV subscription<\/i><\/a>. TV coverage of MLB in the UK 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>MLB.com<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opening Week is sure to provide plenty more entertainment and the great thing is that there are lots of opportunities for us to catch the action at a convenient time in the UK<\/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-19647","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\/19647","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=19647"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19670,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19647\/revisions\/19670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}