{"id":8615,"date":"2010-07-19T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T06:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8615"},"modified":"2010-07-18T19:55:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T18:55:41","slug":"bst-guide-to-this-weeks-early-mlb-games-hamels-wainwright-leads-a-good-crop-of-pitching-match-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8615","title":{"rendered":"BST guide to this week’s early MLB games: Hamels-Wainwright leads a good crop of pitching match-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got twelve \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcearly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 MLB games this week, the highlight of which takes place on Thursday when Cole Hamels and Adam Wainwright are scheduled to meet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, all five games scheduled for Thursday look like being good pitching match-ups.\u00c2\u00a0 Add in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBig Game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 James Shields, Javier Vazquez, Franscisco Lirano, Zack Greinke and a Buchholz-Gonzalez encounter on Thursday and the second half of the week looks set to produce plenty of good games to follow at a convenient time in the UK.\u00c2\u00a0 All times are in BST.<\/p>\n

Monday 19 July<\/h3>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Tuesday 20 July<\/h3>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 21 July<\/h3>\n

17.35. Tampa Bay at Baltimore (James Shields – Brad Bergesen)
\n18.05. LA Angels at NY Yankees (Joel Pineiro – Javier Vazquez)
\n18.10. Cleveland at Minnesota (Jake Westbrook – Francisco Liriano)
\n19.10. Toronto at Kansas City (Marc Rzepczynski – Zack Greinke)
\n19.20. Houston at Chicago Cubs (Brett Myers – Ted Lilly)
\n20.35. Boston at Oakland (Clay Buchholz – Gio Gonzalez)<\/p>\n

Thursday 22 July<\/h3>\n

17.10. Colorado at Florida (Jorge De La Rosa – Josh Johnson)
\n17.35. Washington at Cincinnati (Livan Hernandez – Edinson Volquez)
\n18.05. Toronto at Detroit (Ricky Romero – Justin Verlander)
\n18.05. San Diego at Atlanta (Clayton Richard – Tim Hudson)
\n19.15. Philadelphia at St. Louis (Cole Hamels – Adam Wainwright)<\/p>\n

Friday 23 July<\/h3>\n

19.20. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs (Jeff Suppan – Randy Wells)<\/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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MLB schedule can be found <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. A complete schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got twelve \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcearly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 MLB games this week, the highlight of which takes place on Thursday when Cole Hamels and Adam Wainwright are scheduled to meet<\/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":[82,25,34,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-8615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-bst-guide","tag-espn-america","tag-gameday","tag-gamedayaudio","tag-mlb-2","tag-mlb-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615","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=8615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8615\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}