The Mets are making their first trip down to South Beach to check out the new home of the Miami Marlins. This time last week, the Mets were on the decline, and the Marlins were on the rise. Since then, the Mets have put themselves on a five game winning streak and the Marlins have still played good ball. The Mets will be sending out Santana tonight as Buehrle gets his second start of the season.
Johan Santana is fresh off of his first win of the season with a 1-2 record over 31.0 innings with a 2.61 ERA. In his last three starts he has pitched 19.2 innings with an ERA of 1.83. One of those starts was against the Marlins where he pitched 6.2 innings allowing one earned run, striking out 11 batters. The Marlins have the following numbers against Santana:
Infante 8-42
Ramirez 3-23
Buck 4-18, 3B
Bonifacio 2-15
Kearns 2-15, 2B
The Mets will get another shot at Mark Buehrle tonight who is 2-4 on the season with a 2.83 ERA over 41.1 innings. His last start was a complete game against the Padres where he allowed one earned run. In his first start of the season against the Mets, he picked up the loss as he allowed 2 ER over 7 innings. The Mets have the following number Mark:
Torres 1-4
Davis 0-3
Duda 1-3
Hairston 1-2
Wright 1-3, HR
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