I’m not sure what was louder at Citi Field last night: the thunder or the bats! The Mets finally woke up offensively as they smashed 5 homers including back to back shots by Loney and Cabrera, a second homer for Cabrera, a Yo! Shot and Nimmo’s first major league blast. deGrom also pitched in and out of rain delays earning his first win since the end of April. Tonight will be a more difficult night for the Mets as they go against Jake Arrieta, but at least they can counter with Bartolo Colon.
Colon is 6-4 over 16 games and 15 starts this season over 88.0 innings with a 2.86 ERA. He was the hard luck loser on record last time out only allowing 1 ER over 7.0 innings. In his last 7 starts he has pitched 40.0 innings with a stunning 1.80 ERA (Innings skewed lower per start due to his 0.1 IP outing on the 21st). He had a great start in the regular season last year against the Cubs allowing no runs over 7.0 innings and holding the Cubs to 3 hits and a walk. The Cubs have the following numbers against Bartolo:
- Zobrist 9-15, 3B, 4 HR (Geezz…..)
- Heyward 7-17, 2B, HR
- Rizzo 0-7
- Bryant 0-4, 3 K’s
- Ross 0-2
- Coghlan 0-3
- Baez 0-1
One of my co-workers is a huge Chicago Cubs fan. He calls Jake Arrieta his big, fuzzy security blanket, because you always feel good when he’s on the mound (for the record, he describes Noah Syndergaard as ours, I tried to counter that it should be Colon, but whatever). Arrieta has a league leading 12 wins this year with 2 losses over 16 starts and 103.0 innings while posting a 2.10 ERA. Since late May though, he’s been more human going 4-2 over 7 starts and 40.0 innings with a 3.38 ERA. He held teams scoreless twice of those 7 starts, allowed an average amount of runs for another two, and below average to bad in the remaining three. He was 2-0 in the regular season against the Mets last year holding them to 2 ER over 16.0 innings while striking out 17 batters but in the NLCS last year he allowed 4 ER over 5.0 innings against the Mets. The mets have the following numbers against Jake:
- Granderson 11-32, 2 2B, 3B, 3 HR
- Walker 4-28, 2B, 8 K’s
- Flores 3-10, 2B
- Cabrera 4-8, 2 HR
- Cespedes 2-8, HR
- K Johnson 0-6, 3 BB, 4 K’s
- De Aza 2-5
Let’s Go Mets!
