The Mets and Dodgers kick things off tonight as the Mets look to build off of yesterday’s win in DC. The Mets opened up the second half of baseball with five consecutive losses against the Braves and Nationals. Now they have a chance to reverse what they just did with a series against the Dodgers followed by the Nationals. Johan Santana gets the start today as he takes on Aaron Harang.
Santana is 6-6 on the season over 18 starts with an ERA of 3.59 with 107.1 innings of work. Santana will be looking to revert back to his June version of himself when he was on fire. In July he has pitched 2 games, 9.2 innings allowing 13 ER. His last good start was against the Dodgers, and it was terrific as Santana allowed no runs on 8 innings of work. The Dodgers have the following numbers against Santana:
Uribe 9-64, 4 2B, HR
Kennedy 5-24, 2B, HR
Ellis 1-19, 2B
Hairston 0-18
Rivera 2-16, 2B
Kemp 4-12
Ethier 0-6
Harang is 6-5 on the season over 18 starts with an ERA of 3.53 with 107.0 innings of work, so similar numbers to Santana. In his two starts since the All-Star break, he has allowed 4 ER over 14 innings of work. He faced the Mets earlier this season where he picked up the loss after allowing 4 earned runs, 5 total over 7 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against Harang:
Bay 17-52, 6 2B, 3B, 5 HR
Cedeno 7-23, 2B, 2 HR
Wright 11-20, 4 2B, HR
Torres 3-12
Hairston 2-10, 2B
Duda 2-7, HR
Tejada 5-8, 2 2B
Thole 7-9, 2B, HR
Murphy 3-8, 2 2B, HR
Let’s Go Mets!
