We’ve got five early games today, including CC Sabathia facing a former team and a marquee match-up from the AL West.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are in BST.<\/p>\n
CC faces his former team for the third time coming off the back of a disappointing outing against the Mets last Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 The Yankees won the series opener last night, riding a Robinson Cano grand slam in the seventh inning to take the game 8-2.<\/p>\n
They may be ‘the other two’ in the AL East right now, but this should be a fascinating encounter.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris Tillman is a highly touted prospect, bringing a\u00c2\u00a0sinking fastball and excellent curve alongside a decent change-up. He got hit about a bit in his twelve Major Leaugue starts last year and began this season in Triple-A, but his star still burns very brightly and he looks set to be called up to face Toronto today.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the Blue Jays’ starter, Cecil is in very good form and shutout the Angels over 7.1 innings in his last performance.<\/p>\n
It’s\u00c2\u00a0a marquee match-up from the AL West as\u00c2\u00a0two aces collide in Anaheim.\u00c2\u00a0 Cliff Lee struck out 10 over 8 innings as the M’s won the opener last night 8-3 and\u00c2\u00a0Seattle have\u00c2\u00a0altered their rotation so that King Felix will follow Lee’s outing.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the 1-2\u00c2\u00a0punch that made many expect great things from the team this year, but Lee\u00c2\u00a0spent the first month on the Disabled List and Hernandez hasn’t quite been his regal self lately.\u00c2\u00a0 Lee is now back pitching brilliantly and\u00c2\u00a0if Hernandez can start to dominate teams like he is capable of doing, the M’s fightback could be on.<\/p>\n
Another chance to catch a game being played at the beautiful new Target Field.\u00c2\u00a0 The Twins edged past the Rangers 2-1 yesterday, but both offences are capable of putting up big numbers on any given day.\u00c2\u00a0 Wilson has been an effective addition to Texas’ rotation this season, although his last two starts have been something of a struggle.\u00c2\u00a0 Pavano took a loss last time out against the Brewers, giving up two homers but pitching eight innings.<\/p>\n
The latest series in this long rivalry began yesterday with a 7-1 win by the visiting team.\u00c2\u00a0 The Cards waffled Cubs starter Randy Wells for five quick runs, sending him back to the showers without recording a single out.\u00c2\u00a0 With Chris Carpenter pitching well for the Cards, the Cubs never recovered and it was a routine win for St. Louis.\u00c2\u00a0 Chicago will look to bounce back today with the 6-0 (yes, really!) Carlos Silva.<\/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\u00c2\u00a0ESPN America is broadcasting the Cardinals-Cubs game live from 21.00.<\/em> A complete schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve got five early games today, including CC Sabathia facing a former team and a marquee match-up from the AL West<\/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":[82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","tag-bst-guide","tag-espn-america","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","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=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8065,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions\/8065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}