The Mets look to move beyond yesterday’s disappointing start to the second half by sending out Robert Allen Dickey the All Star. Yesterday the Mets quickly fell into a 5-0 hole, battled back to 5-4, fell back 7-4 and then ended at 7-5. Hopefully the first game allowed the Mets to shake off the All Star break rust as they take on Tommy Hanson.
Dickey is 12-1 on the season over 17 starts and 120 innings of work with a 2.40 ERA. He has struggled in two of his last three starts, allowed 5 runs in each of those starts, but normal Dickey fashion, they sandwich an 8 inning no run performance and were preceded by back to back one hitters. He has pitched 10.1 innings against the Braves this year allowing 10 ER. (His only terrible start was in Atlanta way back in April). The Braves have the following numbers against Dickey:
Bourn 8-25, 2B, 3B
Uggla 1-25, HR
Prado 4-23, 2B, HR
Hinske 3-20, 2 2B
McCann 3-17, HR
Chipper 4-8, 2B, HR
Hanson is 10-5 on the season over 18 starts and 106.1 innings of work with a 3.71 ERA. In his last four starts he has pitched 25.1 innings with an ERA of 4.97. In two starts against the Mets this season he has pitched 12.0 innings while allowed 6 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against Tommy:
Wright 4-22, 2 2B
Thole 9-21, 2B, HR
Davis 3-15, 2B, HR
Tejada 1-11, 2B
Murphy 5-11, 2 2B
Turner 2-3, 2 HR
Duda 3-11, HR
Let’s Go Mets!
