{"id":8971,"date":"2010-08-23T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2010-08-25T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:16:49","slug":"this-weeks-early-mlb-games-live-baseball-on-wednesday-and-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=8971","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s early MLB games: Live baseball on Wednesday and Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are eight MLB games scheduled to begin before midnight UK time this working week, spread over Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of exciting pitching match-ups\u00c2\u00a0in prospect\u00c2\u00a0on Wednesday if the starters stay on their normal rotation schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 Hernandez-Lester catches the eye, not least because they had very different outings in their most recent starts (King Felix dominated the Yankees, while Lester gave up nine runs over two innings against the Blue Jays) [<strong>NOTE:<\/strong> starting pitchers have changed, see comments].\u00c2\u00a0 Jeff Niemann is due to come off the DL to face Dan Haren and the Angels.\u00c2\u00a0 The Reds-Giants game brings together two talented young hurlers and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always good to see Dutch pitcher Jair Jurrjens flying the European baseball flag.<\/p>\n<p>The Astros-Phillies game on Thursday should be a good one as the Phils need to keep the pressure on the Braves and Wandy Rodriguez has been pitching extremely well of late, despite having little to show for it.\u00c2\u00a0 We missed a Yovani Gallardo start last week as he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pitch in a day game as originally expected, so hopefully that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen again this week.<\/p>\n<p>All times are in BST.<\/p>\n<h3>Monday 23 August<\/h3>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday 24 August<\/h3>\n<p>No early games<\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday 25 August<\/h3>\n<p>18.05. Kansas City at Detroit (Sean O&#8217;Sullivan &#8211; Armando Galarraga)<br \/>\n18.35. Seattle at Boston (David\u00c2\u00a0Pauley\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Josh Beckett)<br \/>\n20.10. Atlanta at Colorado (Jair Jurrjens &#8211; Esmil Rogers)<br \/>\n20.35. Tampa Bay at LA Angels (Jeff Niemann &#8211; Dan Haren)<br \/>\n20.45. Cincinnati at San Francisco (Homer Bailey &#8211; Madison Bumgarner)<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday 26 August<\/h3>\n<p>18.05. Houston at Philadelphia (Wandy Rodriguez &#8211; Kyle Kendrick)<br \/>\n19.10. LA Dodgers at Milwaukee (Carlos Monasterios\u00c2\u00a0&#8211; Yovani Gallardo)<br \/>\n23.35. Arizona at San Diego (Ian Kennedy &#8211; Kevin Correia)<\/p>\n<h3>Friday 27 August<\/h3>\n<p>No early games<\/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>There are eight MLB games scheduled to begin before midnight UK time this working week, spread over Wednesday and Thursday<\/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-8971","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\/8971","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=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8973,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}