As promised, here is an abbreviated guide to this week’s abbrevaited MLB schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are listed in BST.<\/p>\n
Thursday 17th<\/strong> – No early games today and only four later on.\u00c2\u00a0 Johan Santana versus Johnny Cueto should be worth watching though, with first pitch set for ten past midnight.<\/p>\n Friday 18th<\/strong> – No early games again, but there are several interesting match-ups in the early hours of Saturday morning.\u00c2\u00a0 From the NL East we have the Phillies against the Marlins with Jamie Moyer and Ricky Nolasco taking the mound from 00.10.\u00c2\u00a0 At the same time we have a clash from the AL East, with A.J. Burnett and the Blue Jays facing James Shields and the Rays.\u00c2\u00a0 The top two teams in the NL West begin a three game weekend series at 02.40 as the Dodgers travel to Arizona to face the D-Backs.\u00c2\u00a0 The Red Sox and the Angels begin their series with Clay Buchholz scheduled to compete against John Lackey (first pitch 03.05), while CC Sabathia makes his third start in a Brewers uniform against Matt Cain and the Giants at AT&T Park (03.15).<\/p>\n Saturday 19th<\/strong> – While we’re looking ahead, we may as well take a quick glimpse at the six early games being played on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 We start with the A’s against the Yankees at 18.05, where\u00c2\u00a0Sean Gallagher\u00c2\u00a0and Joba Chamberlain should be starting.\u00c2\u00a0 There are four games beginning at 20.55, with the pick of the crop probably being Josh Beckett and the Red Sox against Joe Saunders and the Angels.\u00c2\u00a0 Elsewhere, the Indians take on the Mariners, the Phillies face the Marlins, and the Padres\u00c2\u00a0play against\u00c2\u00a0the Cardinals.\u00c2\u00a0 Ten minutes later, the Brewers and the Giants start their game with the NL All Star starter Ben Sheets and Jonathan Sanchez taking the mound.\u00c2\u00a0 And if those six don’t whet your appetite, at 23.10 it’s the Blue Jays against the Rays with the exciting prospect of Roy Halladay squaring off against Scott Kazmir<\/span> EDIT:<\/strong> Due to Kazmir’s All Star exertions, Matt Garza gets the start instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As promised, here is an abbreviated guide to this week’s abbrevaited MLB schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are listed in BST. Thursday 17th – No early games today and only four later on.\u00c2\u00a0 Johan Santana versus Johnny Cueto should be worth watching though, with first pitch set for ten past midnight. Friday 18th – No early games […]<\/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":[82,34,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","tag-bst-guide","tag-gameday","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}