{"id":20820,"date":"2018-05-21T17:10:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=20820"},"modified":"2018-05-21T17:10:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T16:10:15","slug":"mlb-this-week-two-bt-sport-games-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=20820","title":{"rendered":"MLB This Week: Two BT Sport Games on Thursday"},"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=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>After drawing blanks on Monday and Tuesday, we&#8217;ve got a good selection of MLB day-games to enjoy during the British evening on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s games include one from the series between the current leaders of the NL Central and NL West, as the Arizona Diamondbacks are in Miwaukee playing the Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Astros are in interleague play against the San Francisco Giants and Wednesday&#8217;s game should see an excellent pitching match-up with Jeff Samardzija and Justin Verlander the probable pitchers.<\/p>\n<p>There are two games on BT Sport on Thursday, as the Pirates and Reds get things going from 17.35 on the ESPN channel before the Mariners and A&#8217;s start on BT Sport1 from 20.35.<\/p>\n<p>Friday offers us a Cubs home game and the second opportunity to catch the Giants in early action.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 21 May<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday 22 May<\/h2>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h2>Wednesday 23 May<\/h2>\n<p>18:10 D-backs at Brewers (Godley (4-3), TBD)<br \/>\n18:10 Tigers at Twins (Fulmer (1-3), Gibson (1-2))<br \/>\n18:15 Royals at Cardinals (Junis (5-3), Wacha (5-1))<br \/>\n19:10 Giants at Astros (Samardzija (1-2), Verlander (5-2))<strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n21:05 Padres at Nationals (Ross (3-3), TBD)<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday 24 May<\/h2>\n<p>17:35 Pirates at Reds (Nova (2-4), TBD) <strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><br \/>\n17:37 Angels at Blue Jays (Tropeano (1-3), Estrada (2-4)) <strong>*Facebook Game<\/strong><br \/>\n19:10 Orioles at White Sox (Bundy (2-6), Giolito (3-4))<br \/>\n20:35 Mariners at Athletics (Hernandez (5-3), TBD) <strong>*BT Sport1<\/strong><br \/>\n23:10 Astros at Indians (TBD, Clevinger (3-1))<\/p>\n<h2>Friday 25 May<\/h2>\n<p>19:20 Giants at Cubs (TBD, TBD). <strong> *BT Sport\/ESPN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=19543\">MLB.TV subscription<\/a>, other than the Facebook live game which is exclusive (but free) to Facebook subscribers. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/mlb\/schedule\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLB.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After drawing blanks on Monday and Tuesday, we&#8217;ve got a good selection of MLB day-games to enjoy during the British evening on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday<\/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-20820","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\/20820","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=20820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20822,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions\/20822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}