{"id":9148,"date":"2010-09-12T14:21:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9148"},"modified":"2010-09-13T07:05:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T06:05:06","slug":"sundays-mlb-games-a-later-5-live-show-plenty-to-enjoy-earlier-in-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=9148","title":{"rendered":"Sunday’s MLB games: A later 5 Live show, plenty to enjoy earlier in the evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MlbHlSq\"It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the first Sunday of the NFL season and while that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great thing for gridiron fans, it does have the unfortunate knock-on effect of bumping BBC 5 Live Sports Extra’s MLB coverage to half past midnight.<\/p>\n

The good news is that the BBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s NFL coverage is focusing on national games starting at 21.05 and the only reason that an MLB game isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on before it this week is the Rugby League play-off between Wigan and Leeds.\u00c2\u00a0 MLB coverage will return to a convenient hour next week with an 18.00 start.<\/p>\n

St. Louis Cardinals @ Atlanta Braves<\/strong><\/p>\n

Until then, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a 00.30 show start time, with first pitch set for 01.05 a.m., as the St. Louis Cardinals take on the Atlanta Braves.\u00c2\u00a0 The Braves are back in a tie for first place with the Philadelphia Phillies in the NL East after their rivals lost to the Mets yesterday and Atlanta won in dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n

Mid-season recruit Alex Gonzalez hit a three-run home run in the twelfth inning as the Braves walked off 6-3 winners.\u00c2\u00a0 Tim Hudson pitches for Atlanta today and he matches up against the only pitcher he has ever hit a home run off.\u00c2\u00a0 Kyle Lohse will no doubt be reminded of the longball he gave up to his opposite number prior to today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s game, not least because it occurred on exactly the same date a year ago: 12 September.<\/p>\n

The rest of the day’s games<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a full schedule of games taking place before the Cardinals-Braves game and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure the 5 Live team will round up all the action during the show.\u00c2\u00a0 If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got access to any of the MLB.com subscriptions then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re in for a treat this evening as there are a host of exciting encounters to follow.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Top of the list has to be the Giants-Padres game in which Tim Lincecum and Mat Latos are scheduled to take the mound.\u00c2\u00a0 San Diego won on a strike-him-out, throw-him-out play yesterday to give themselves a chance to win today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contest and earn a split from this important four-game series between the top two teams in the NL West.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

They are being chased in the West by the Rockies.\u00c2\u00a0 Colorado has now won nine in a row and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got the impressive rookie Jhoulys Chacin starting for them against the D-Backs in their attempt to stretch the streak to double figures.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the American League, the big game begins at 20.05 as Cliff Lee pitches for the Rangers against the Yankees.\u00c2\u00a0 New York\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead in the AL East is now down to half a game as Texas has won back-to-back walk-off victories, with yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s win coming on a walk-off, hit-by-pitch delivered by Mariano Rivera.\u00c2\u00a0 Cliff Lee has battled with back problems of late, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s scheduled to return to the mound to face the team many expect him to join as a free agent over the offseason.<\/p>\n

Here is today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s full MLB schedule, with start times in BST.<\/p>\n

18.05. Minnesota at Cleveland (Slowey – Talbot)
\n18.05. Baltimore at Detroit (Tillman – Verlander)
\n18.07. Tampa Bay at Toronto (Niemann – Marcum)
\n18.10. Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (Burres – Cueto)
\n18.10. Philadelphia at NY Mets (Oswalt – Niese)
\n18.35. Florida at Washington (Volstad – Zimmermann)
\n19.05. Kansas City at Chicago White Sox (O’Sullivan – Harrell)
\n19.05. LA Dodgers at Houston (Monasterios – Figueroa)
\n19.10. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee (Coleman – Gallardo)
\n20.05. NY Yankees at Texas (Moseley – Lee) * ESPN America<\/strong>
\n20.10. Arizona at Colorado (Kennedy – Chacin)
\n20.35. Seattle at LA Angels (Vargas – Haren)
\n21.05. Boston at Oakland (Beckett – Braden)
\n21.05. San Francisco at San Diego (Lincecum – Latos)
\n01.05. a.m. St. Louis at Atlanta (Lohse – Hudson) * 5 Live Sports Extra, ESPN America<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the above games can be followed via various resources on MLB.com<\/a> (Gameday, At Bat with Gameday Audio and MLB.tv).\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> ESPN America is showing both the Yankees-Rangers game and the Cardinals-Braves game.\u00c2\u00a0 5 Live Sports Extra’s MLB coverage\u00c2\u00a0can be found on DAB radio, digitial TV and, for UK residents,\u00c2\u00a0on the BBC.co.uk website.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 Live Sports Extra is broadcasting the Cardinals-Braves game from half past midnight. There are a host of exciting games taking place earlier in the British evening as well<\/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":[226,232,225,82,25,70,553,66],"class_list":["post-9148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-coverage","category-mlb-2","tag-5-live-sports-extra","tag-baseball-on-the-bbc","tag-bbc","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\/9148","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=9148"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9160,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9148\/revisions\/9160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}