{"id":7694,"date":"2010-04-25T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2010-04-25T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T09:49:28","slug":"sundays-early-mlb-games-will-the-padres-be-on-cloud-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=7694","title":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8217;s early MLB games: Will the Padres be on cloud nine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the normal Sunday service today, with all games but the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball contest (Braves-Mets at 01.00 a.m.) taking place during the day time in the States, making them prime evening entertainment for us in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres are shooting for their ninth win in a row and turn to former White Sox pitcher Clayton Richard against the Reds today.\u00c2\u00a0 The White Sox themselves have had back-to-back walk-off wins over the Mariners and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have the brooms out at the Cell as they try to complete the series sweep.\u00c2\u00a0 Another team hoping to sweep today are the Giants.\u00c2\u00a0 Tim Lincecum and Barry Zito both gave them excellent starts in the first two games of the series and Matt Cain is more than capable of doing the same against the Cardinals.\u00c2\u00a0 The Marlins and Rockies will play their third game in two days after yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s double-header, while Morror-Price and Vazquez-Kazmir look the pick of the other pitching match-ups.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<p>18.10. San Diego at Cincinnati (Clayton Richard &#8211; Homer Bailey)<br \/>\n18.35. Baltimore at Boston (David Hernandez &#8211; Tim Wakefield)<br \/>\n18.35. LA Dodgers at Washington (Chad Billingsley &#8211; Scott Olsen)<br \/>\n18.40. Toronto at Tampa Bay (Brandon Morrow &#8211; David Price)<br \/>\n19.05. Seattle at Chicago White Sox (Jason Vargas &#8211; John Danks)<br \/>\n19.05. Pittsburgh at Houston (Charlie Morton &#8211; Brett Myers)<br \/>\n19.10. Minnesota at Kansas City (Kevin Slowey &#8211; Brian Bannister)<br \/>\n19.10. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee (Randy Wells &#8211; Dave Bush)<br \/>\n20.05. Detroit at Texas (Rick Porcello &#8211; Colby Lewis)<br \/>\n20.35. NY Yankees at LA Angels (Javier Vazquez &#8211; Scott Kazmir)<br \/>\n21.05. Cleveland at Oakland (Justin Masterson &#8211; Gio Gonzalez)<br \/>\n21.05. St. Louis at San Francisco (Brad Penny &#8211; Matt Cain)<br \/>\n21.10. Philadelphia at Arizona (Kyle Kendrick &#8211; Rodrigo Lopez)<br \/>\n22.05. Florida at Colorado (Chris Volstad &#8211; Jorge De La Rosa)<\/p>\n<p><em>All the above games can be followed via various resources on MLB.com (Gameday, At Bat with Gameday Audio and MLB.tv). ESPN America is concentrating on the NHL playoffs so they are not broadcasting any of the games live, although Cubs-Brewers and Braves-Mets will be shown &#8216;as live&#8217; tomorrow afternoon.<\/em><em> A complete schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres have won eight straight and their attempt to make it nine wins in a row is one of fourteen early MLB games today<\/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":[82,25,70,553,197,66],"class_list":["post-7694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bst-guide","tag-espn-america","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-com-at-bat","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694","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=7694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7694\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}