Monday is a public holiday in the States so we have an absolute feast of early baseball to enjoy as we start the working week.
There are plenty of interesting pitching match-ups included, not least Cole Hamels vs Felix Hernandez, plus Justin Verlander and Chris Sale who faced each other last Wednesday.
However, in an already exciting month for Great Britain baseball (with the Euros and World Baseball Classic qualifier coming up) we can’t look past the Team GB player Jake Esch making his second MLB start for the Marlins after making his Big League debut last Wednesday (Note: updated to correct my original comment that said he had pitched out of the bullpen in his debut).
After a break from early action on Tuesday, Wednesday offers us four pre-midnight starts including a Noah Syndergaard start against the Reds and Jose Quintana starting for the White Sox against the Tigers.
There’s just one early game on Thursday – and only seven MLB games in total – but it should be a good one between two teams eyeing up a play-off spot.
All times are in BST.
Monday 5 September
18.00. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee (Hendricks – Davies) *BT Sport/ESPN
18.05. Toronto at NY Yankees (Dickey – Tanaka)
18.10. NY Mets at Cincinnati (Colon – Stephenson)
18.10. Philadelphia at Miami (Eickhoff – Esch)
18.10. Baltimore at Tampa Bay (Jimenez – Andriese)
19.10. Kansas City at Minnesota (Kennedy – Dean)
21.00. St. Louis at Pittsburgh (Wainwright – Kuhl) *BT Sport/ESPN
21.05. LA Angels at Oakland (Weaver – Detwiler)
21.05. Atlanta at Washington (Weber – Scherzer) *MLB.com Free Game
21.10. Detroit at Chicago WS (Verlander – Sale)
21.10. Texas at Seattle (Hamels – Hernandez)
21.10. San Francisco at Colorado (Moore – Bettis)
21.40. Boston at San Diego (Pomeranz – Jackson)
Tuesday 6 September
No early games
Wednesday 7 September
17.35. NY Mets at Cincinnati (Syndergaard – Bailey) *BT Sport2
18.10. Baltimore at Tampa Bay (Bundy – Smyly) *BT Sport/ESPN
19.10. Detroit at Chicago WS (Sanchez – Quintana)
20.35. LA Angels at Oakland (Meyer – Triggs) *MLB.com Free Game
Thursday 8 September
17.10. Houston at Cleveland (Musgrove – Bauer) *BT Sport/ESPN
Friday 9 September
No early games
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 onMLB.com
