{"id":8908,"date":"2010-08-16T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2010-08-18T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T17:02:03","slug":"this-weeks-early-mlb-games-gallardo-wainwright-and-three-from-wrigley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8908","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s early MLB games: Gallardo-Wainwright and three from Wrigley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got eight early games this working week that begin before midnight UK time.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s encounter between the Brewers and Cardinals catches the eye thanks to the excellent pitching match-up in prospect.\u00c2\u00a0 The Rangers-Rays game that day should be fascinating as well.<\/p>\n<p>Mat Latos looked very impressive on Saturday against the Giants despite finishing up with a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcno decision\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 The young Padres starter has a great fastball and a devastating breaking ball and the Cubs will be in for a battle against him at Wrigley on Thursday.\u00c2\u00a0 That will be the second straight Padres-Cubs game played at a convenient time for us Brits and Chicago will be hosting another day game on Friday as the Braves head into town.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST. (Note: updated on 18 August)<\/p>\n<h3>Monday 16 August<\/h3>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday 17 August<\/h3>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday 18 August\u00c2\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>18.10. Texas at Tampa Bay (Derek Holland\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; James Shields)<br \/>\n19.15. Milwaukee at St. Louis (Randy Wolf\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Adam Wainwright)<br \/>\n19.20. San Diego at Chicago Cubs (Clayton Richard &#8211; Casey Coleman)<br \/>\n20.35. Toronto at Oakland (Marc Rzepczynski &#8211; Gio Gonzalez)<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday 19 August<\/h3>\n<p>18.05. Detroit at NY Yankees (Rick Porcello &#8211; Phil Hughes)<br \/>\n18.05. Washington at Atlanta (John Lannan &#8211; Derek Lowe)<br \/>\n19.20. San Diego at Chicago Cubs (Mat Latos &#8211; Carlos Zambrano)<\/p>\n<h3>Friday 20 August<\/h3>\n<p>19.20. Atlanta at Chicago Cubs (Jair Jurrjens\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Ryan Dempster)<\/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 eight early games this working week that begin before midnight UK time<\/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-8908","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\/8908","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=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8910,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions\/8910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}