The Mets will dance again with the Marlins tonight for the second game of the season. It will be a battle of right handed pitchers as Pedro takes the mound for the Mets and will face Vandenhurk in his Sophomore season. Vandenhurk pitched two games against the Mets last season and the combined his stats are 2 G, 9 IP, 12 ER, 12.00 ERA, 12 K, O BB, 10 H, 4 HR.
Some interesting points are that he strikes out a lot of Mets batters, but is very weak to the long ball, which makes sense vs the Mets who hit RHP fairly well. Overall Last year, he went 7-11 with a 6.83 ERA.
Pedro has done well vs the Mets. Last year in one game, he got the win in 5 IP, allowing 3 ER, 4 R, 8 H, 2 BB, and at the same time striking out 11. (This stat needs to be checked, but as a team, the Marlins would strike out 9.7 times a game last year vs the Mets, I saw it on the bottom line yesterday before the Mets game on ESPN). Career vs the fish, he has 21 G, 116.2 IP, and a 2.85 ERA.
The role of the fish fryer though goes to David Wright. Last year, in 73 AB, he had 20 H, 18 R, 18 R, 4 2B, 3 HR, 12 RBI, .411 BA and .506 OBP.
With last night, Wright already has half his doubles from last year and 25% of his RBI's. Order up, lets fry some fish tonight.
