The Mets had a rough go of it in Arizona last night (at least, I think they did, honestly I can’t handle these West Coast games anymore so I left the bar when it was 2-2 and woke up when the game was over). Tonight Bartolo Colon will look to put the Mets back in the win column against Chase Anderson.
Colon is 8-3 over 11 starts and a 68.2 innings of work posting a 4.72 ERA. Today he’ll be looking to extend his league leading 8 wins to 9. After a series of bad starts he’s calmed down to average in his last two tossing 13.0 innings with 6 ER and striking out 8. In his career he has faced the Diamondbacks once allowing 4 runs and 8 hits over 5.2 innings of work. The Diamondbacks have the following numbers against Bartolo:
- Salty 5-21, 2B, HR
- Pennington 4-9, 2B
- Hill 2-7
- Pacheco 2-3, 2B
The Mets bats will get a look at Chasing Anderson who is 1-1 over 10 starts this season with a 3.26 ERA while pitching 60.2 innings. Chase this year does well the entire month, then blows up at the end of the month. April, he had a 3.00 ERA going into the last game where he allowed 5 ER over 5.1 innings raising it to 4.24. In May he had a string of fantastic starts lowering his ERA from 4.24 to 2.59 and then allowed 6 ER over 5.0 innings to bump it up to 3.26. Chase made his major league debut last season and this will be his first time facing the New York Mets. The only player he has seen at the major league level on the Mets roster is Cuddyer who is 1-6 with a double against him.
Let’s Go Mets!
