{"id":9041,"date":"2010-08-30T12:22:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T11:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9041"},"modified":"2010-08-30T12:24:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T11:24:01","slug":"this-weeks-early-mlb-games-new-york-teams-offer-an-england-diversion-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9041","title":{"rendered":"This week’s early MLB games: New York teams offer an England diversion on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got eight \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcearly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 MLB games to enjoy this working week, despite there being just one game starting before midnight UK time on Thursday: the traditional \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgetaway\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 day in the Majors.<\/p>\n

That Thursday game should be an interesting encounter as A-Rod tormentor extraordinaire Dallas Braden is scheduled to start for the Oakland A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at Yankee Stadium.\u00c2\u00a0 Their confrontation earlier in the season will be talked about ad nauseum<\/em> despite Rodriguez being on the Disabled List and not eligible to return until Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 Braden pitched a complete game shutout against the Rangers on Saturday and will match up against Cy Young candidate CC Sabathia.<\/p>\n

There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another day game at Yankee Stadium on Friday as the Yankees host the Blue Jays, while the New York Mets are in Chicago to face the Cubs.\u00c2\u00a0 Two good options for people wanting to avoid the inevitable disappointment of England\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Euro qualifier against Bulgaria.<\/p>\n

The stand-out pitching match-up is scheduled for Wednesday as Roy Oswalt and Clayton Kershaw are currently in line to pitch for the Phillies and Dodgers respectively in the finale of a three-game series in L.A.<\/p>\n

All times are in BST.<\/p>\n

Monday 30 August<\/h3>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Tuesday 31 August<\/h3>\n

No early games<\/p>\n

Wednesday 1 September<\/h3>\n

17.05. Chicago White Sox at Cleveland (Freddy Garcia – Josh Tomlin)
\n19.05. St. Louis at Houston (Jeff Suppan – Nelson Figueroa)
\n19.20. Pittsburgh at Chicago Cubs (James McDonald – Tom Gorzelanny)
\n20.10. Philadelphia at LA Dodgers (Roy Oswalt – Clayton Kershaw)
\n23.10. San Diego at Arizona (Mat Latos – Barry Enright)<\/p>\n

Thursday 2 September<\/h3>\n

18.05. Oakland at NY Yankees (Dallas Braden \u00e2\u20ac\u201c CC Sabathia)<\/p>\n

Friday 3 September<\/h3>\n

18.05. Toronto at NY Yankees (Brandon Morrow \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Ivan Nova)
\n19.20. NY Mets at Chicago Cubs (R.A. Dickey \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 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 eight \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcearly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 MLB games to enjoy this working week, including two games on Friday evening to divert attention from the England game<\/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-9041","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\/9041","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=9041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9042,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}