{"id":20733,"date":"2018-04-02T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=20733"},"modified":"2018-04-02T10:50:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T09:50:43","slug":"mlb-this-week-the-first-full-week-of-the-2018-mlb-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=20733","title":{"rendered":"MLB This Week: The first full week of the 2018 MLB season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The first full week of the 2018 MLB season offers up a whole host of day-games that are perfect for us to watch during the British evening.<\/p>\n

There are 27 games scheduled to start before midnight UK time this working week, including today’s ‘glorious’ Bank Holiday Monday.<\/p>\n

Heading into the week there are four teams still searching for the first victory. The Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres know that their first W is just around the corner, but they would like to get it sooner rather than later.\u00c2\u00a0 The Royals and Tigers know that one of them will definitely get that monkey off their back today as they meet at Comerica Park.<\/p>\n

There are some good teams on show in the early games on BT Sport this week, although unfortunately neither of the two 9 o’clock games on Friday are being broadcast. Tuesday’s game should see Chris Sale taking the mound at Marlins Ballpark for the Red Sox in an early interleague series for Boston (also available to watch for free on MLB.com), whilst Thursday should be an excellent game from Nationals Ballpark as Stephen Strasburg is in line to face Jacob deGrom and the Mets.<\/p>\n

There is also a good group MLB.com Free Games in the early slots, not least on Wednesday when Dylan Bundy and Dallas Keuchel are the probable pitchers for the Orioles-Astros game.<\/p>\n

All times are in BST.<\/p>\n

Monday 2 April<\/h2>\n

18:05 Twins at Pirates (Lynn (0-0), Taillon (0-0))
\n18:05 Rays at Yankees (Pruitt (1-0), Montgomery (0-0)) *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong>
\n18:10 Royals at Tigers (Hammel (0-0), Liriano (0-0))
\n19:10 Cardinals at Brewers (Mikolas (0-0), Davies (0-0))
\n21:10 Cubs at Reds (Chatwood (0-0), Mahle (0-0)) *MLB.com Free Game<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday 3 April<\/h2>\n

18:10 Royals at Tigers (Junis (0-0), Boyd (0-0))
\n21:35 Mariners at Giants (Gonzales (0-0), Blach (1-0))
\n23:10 Red Sox at Marlins (Sale (0-0), Urena (0-1)) *MLB.com Free Game, BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong>
\n23:40 Cubs at Reds (Lester (0-0), Reed (0-0))<\/p>\n

Wednesday 4 April<\/h2>\n

17:10 Nationals at Braves (Scherzer (1-0), TBD)
\n18:05 Rays at Yankees (Archer (0-0), Severino (1-0))
\n18:10 Royals at Tigers (Duffy (0-1), Norris (0-0))
\n18:10 Phillies at Mets (Pivetta (0-0), Syndergaard (1-0))
\n19:10 Orioles at Astros (Bundy (0-0), Keuchel (0-1)) *MLB.com Free Game<\/strong>
\n20:40 Dodgers at D-backs (Wood (0-0), Corbin (1-0)) *BT Sport1<\/strong>
\n21:07 Indians at Angels (Kluber (0-1), Skaggs (1-0))
\n23:05 Twins at Pirates (Odorizzi (0-0), Nova (0-0))<\/p>\n

Thursday 5 April<\/h2>\n

18:05 Mets at Nationals (deGrom (1-0), Strasburg (1-0)) *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong>
\n19:05 Rays at Red Sox (TBD, Price (1-0))
\n20:05 Marlins at Phillies (Smith (0-0), TBD)
\n20:35 Rangers at Athletics (Perez (0-0), Mengden (0-1))
\n20:40 Rockies at Padres (Anderson (0-0), Lucchesi (0-0))
\n21:10 Tigers at White Sox (Zimmermann (0-0), Shields (1-0)) *MLB.com Free Game<\/strong>
\n21:10 Mariners at Twins (Paxton (0-1), Gibson (1-0))
\n23:35 Orioles at Yankees (TBD, TBD)<\/p>\n

Friday 6 April<\/h2>\n

21:10 Braves at Rockies (TBD, Marquez (0-0))
\n21:10 Royals at Indians (TBD, TBD)<\/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":"

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