We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got seven early games today and both leagues offer up some exciting contests.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are in BST.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a battle of Justins in Cleveland, with Masterson looking for his first win of the season and Verlander aiming to improve his win-loss record to 3-2.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game was postponed due to rain.<\/p>\n
The Marlins took the series opener last night, coming back from 2-1 down to win it 4-2.\u00c2\u00a0 Matt Chico is on the all-too-familiar road back from Tommy John surgery.\u00c2\u00a0 He is set to be recalled from Double-A to make his first post-surgery Major League start.<\/p>\n
Rod Barajas and rookie Ike Davis both went deep twice yesterday as the Mets beat the Giants 6-4.\u00c2\u00a0 Santana pitched in the Sunday Night Game against the Phillies last week and had the worst start of his Major League career, giving up four homers and a bases-loaded walk to opposing pitcher Jamie Moyer.\u00c2\u00a0 A bad day at the office or something more? Pessimistic Mets fans will be peeping out from behind a cushion as they wait to find out.<\/p>\n
The Orioles and Twins play a double-header today after the first ever rain-out at Target Field yesterday. If only they played in a dome.\u00c2\u00a0 Liriano has been a scintillating form for the Twins while MLB.com notes that Millwood is 0-7 with a 5.90 ERA in 12 career starts against Minnesota.<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time once again for another instalment of the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry.\u00c2\u00a0 The hype gets annoying largely because beneath it is always a good game of baseball (if a little long) that often seems to get overshadowed by the soap opera.\u00c2\u00a0 The Red Sox entered the series with many of their followers suffering from a crisis of confidence and the Yankees’ 10-3 win last night, their fifth win in a row, wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have done much to help.\u00c2\u00a0 Neither will facing CC today.\u00c2\u00a0 Can Clay come to the rescue?<\/p>\n
The Braves have not lived up to pre-season expectations so far and sit bottom of the NL East with a 12-17 record after being shutout by the Phillies yesterday in a 7-0 loss.\u00c2\u00a0 Medlen takes over from the injured Jair Jurrjens, while Blanton is making his second start of the season after beginning the year on the DL.<\/p>\n
Finally, if the Mets are a little worried about Johan Santana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s start, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing compared to what A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fans like myself are feeling today ahead of Ben Sheets taking the mound.\u00c2\u00a0 After coming off an injury-lost 2009 season, Sheets has been downright terrible in his last two starts and the Rays are the best team in the Majors right now, with a Major League-leading 22-7 record.<\/p>\n
All the above games can be followed via various resources on MLB.com (Gameday, At Bat with Gameday Audio and MLB.tv), while ESPN America is broadcasting the\u00c2\u00a0Yankees-Red Sox\u00c2\u00a0game.<\/em> A complete schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are seven early games on Saturday and both leagues offer up some exciting contests<\/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":[107,104,101,82,113,111,25,106,70,110,553,66,108,98,128,99,134,102,109],"class_list":["post-7845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bst-guide","tag-cleveland-indians","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-espn-america","tag-florida-marlins","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-oakland-as","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-washington-nationals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845","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=7845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7845\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}