The Mets will try to forget about last night's terrible lost where they were heavily outhit, outwalked, and then gave it up on a bases loaded hit by pitch. So the Mets will send their ace up tonight to take on Randy Wolf and put the Mets back into the win column. (On a side note, I can't say “back in the win column” without thinking about Joe Angel, who currently does the play by play game calling for the Baltimore Orioles on the radio).
Anyway, Randy Wolf, he is 3-4 this year with a 4.33 ERA over 70.2 IP. Last year he picked up a win against the Mets pitching 6 innings, allowing 3 runs, 9 hits, no walks and struck out 2. The year before that, he had a 2-0 record against the Mets over 3 games posting an identical ERA of 4.50, this time allowing 8 runs over 16 innings pitched, and allowed 16 hits, 9 walks and struck out 10. With those types of numbers, you would expect the Mets to at least beat him in one of those games. Here are some numbers that current Mets have put up against Wolf:
Castillo 17-40 (.425 BA), 4 2B, 3B, HR
Reyes 7-26, 2 HR
Wright 2-15
Beltran 7-22, 4 2B, HR
How about Beltran's extra base hit numbers on Wolf? Five of his seven hits were for extra bases, and Reyes also flashes some power against him.
Santana has been pretty great in his last two starts going 2-0, pitching 14.2 innings, walking 5, striking out 13, allowing only one homerun and has an ERA of 2.45. The last time he pitched against the Padres was a while ago. In 2005, he pitched 6.2 innings allowed 4 runs, walked 4, struck out 3 and took the loss. He has had a strong last 9 games posting a record of 6-1, over 61 innings pitched and has an ERA of 3.25. His walk to strikeout numbers have been amazing. In those nine games he has allowed only 16 walks, less than 2 walks a game and has struck out 53. Here are some Padre offense numbers against Santana:
Iguchi 8-37, 2 2B
Gerut 2-8
Greene 0-3
Kouzmanoff 0-3
Numbers look good. Today feels good. Redemption time. Lets Go Mets!
