{"id":8741,"date":"2010-08-02T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2010-08-01T19:25:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T18:25:32","slug":"bst-guide-to-this-weeks-early-mlb-games-nine-to-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8741","title":{"rendered":"BST Guide to this week&#8217;s early MLB games: Nine to enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got nine \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcearly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 MLB games this working week. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a slightly unusual schedule in that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got a rare early game on Tuesday, while there are only two games on Thursday, the normally bountiful source of pre-midnight UK time contests.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got two games from the White Sox-Tigers series, a Twins-Rays contest on Thursday and two Cincinnati Reds games including a Friday day-game at Wrigley against the Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the probable pitching match-ups, Wednesday offers the most enticing game as the latest exciting young pitcher developed by the Giants, Madison Bumgarner, takes on the Rockies and Ubaldo Jimenez.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday 2 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday 3 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>18.05. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (Mark Buehrle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Jeremy Bonderman)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 4 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.35. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (Johnny Cueto &#8211; Jeff Karstens)<br \/>\n18.05. Toronto at NY Yankees (Shaun Marcum &#8211; Phil Hughes)<br \/>\n19.20. Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs (Manny Parra &#8211; Ryan Dempster)<br \/>\n20.10. San Francisco at Colorado (Madison Bumgarner &#8211; Ubaldo Jimenez)<br \/>\n20.35. Kansas City at Oakland (Sean O&#8217;Sullivan &#8211; Brett Anderson)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 5 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17.10. Minnesota at Tampa Bay (Kevin Slowey &#8211; Wade Davis)<br \/>\n18.05. Chicago White Sox at Detroit (John Danks &#8211; Max Scherzer)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday 6 August<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>19.20. Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs (Bronson Arroyo \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Tom Gorzelanny)<\/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), while ESPN America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s MLB schedule can be found <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espnamerica.com\/portal\/content\/index-mlb?open&amp;action=viewschedule\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>. A complete schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got nine \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcearly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 MLB games this working week including two games from the White Sox-Tigers series, a Twins-Rays contest on Thursday and two Cincinnati Reds games <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-8741","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-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","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=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8743,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions\/8743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}