We’ve got a good batch of early games to enjoy this week, including eight on Wednesday.
The games from the Detroit-Cleveland series all start at 23.10 BST so they slip under the pre-midnight cut-off, but aren’t quite as convenient to watch as the ‘early’ game designation normally means.
Wednesday is packed full of interesting match-ups at a good time for us in the UK to watch. The games include one from the Cubs-Pirates series, Stephen Strasburg taking on the Kansas City Royals, and Felix Hernandez matching up against Oakland A’s rookie Sean Manaea in what will be the latter’s second MLB start (accepting the usual caveat that starting pitchers are always subject to change depending on postponements etc).
The working week ends with an early Friday game from Wrigley Field for the second week running. This time it’s the Nationals that are in Chicago for what should be an excellent weekend series.
All times are in BST.
Monday 2 May
No early games.
Tuesday 3 May
23.10. Detroit at Cleveland (Verlander – Tomlin) *BT Sport/ESPN
Wednesday 4 May
17.35. San Francisco at Cincinnati (Peavy – Straily)
17.35. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh (Lester – Nicasio) *BT Sport/ESPN
18.10. Atlanta at NY Mets (Chacin – Matz)
18.40. LA Angels at Milwaukee (Santiago – Davies) *MLB.com Free Game
19.15. Washington at Kansas City (Strasburg – Medlen)
20.35. Seattle at Oakland (Hernandez – Manaea)
20.40. Colorado at San Diego (Chatwood – Vargas) *BT Sport/ESPN
23.10. Detroit at Cleveland (Sanchez – Kluber)
Thursday 5 May
18.45. Philadelphia at St Louis (Eickhoff – Garcia) *BT Sport/ESPN
23.10. Detroit at Cleveland (Fulmer – Bauer)
Friday 6 May
19.20. Washington at Chicago Cubs (Scherzer – Lackey) *BT Sport/ESPN
All of these games are available to watch or listen to live via an MLB.TV subscription. TV coverage of MLB comes courtesy of the BT Sport channels and these are highlighted above, as are any games that are available to view online for free via MLB.com. The above list of games just shows those starting before midnight UK time. The full schedule of MLB games can be found on MLB.com
