213 Miles From Shea

The Cardinals come into town as they face the new look Mets. After Sunday’s game, the Mets demoted Baxter, Carson and most prominently, (part of the core according to Alderson) Davis. In their place the Mets have called up Satin, Cowgil and Edgin. Anyway, Jeremy Hefner looks to continue the Mets streak of starting pitching while the Mets bats look to continue their collective soul searching against Wacha.

Jeremy Hefner is 1-5 over 64.0 innings this year with a 4.36 ERA so far this season. In his last three starts he has allowed 6 ER over 19 innings which is a 2.84 ERA. In that same stretch he has struck out 19 batters. Earlier this season he faced the Cards allowing 3 ER over 6 innings of work. The Cardinals have the following numbers against Hefner:

Wigginton 2-4
Beltran 0-2
Craig 1-3, 2B
Freese 1-3
Holliday 1-3

The Mets bats will get a crack at Michael Wacha who is 0-0 in his first two starts in his major league career. Over his first two games he has a 5.40 ERA from allowing 7 ER and 12 hits over 11.2 innings of work. In the same stretch he’s walked 1 vs. 10 strikeouts. Not surprisingly, he hasn’t faced the Mets in his career and anyone on the Mets roster.

Lets Go Mets!

The Mets try to…do something after yesterday.

The Mets got excellent pitching throughout the entire game. Harvey started off well, the bullpen took over well and then Marcum got in 8 innings where he, in a twisted decree of fate, allowed only one earned run in the top of the 20, and the Mets couldn’t do anything. Anyway, Jon Niese looks to keep the good pitching going today as he takes on Tom Koehler.

Jon Niese is 3-5 over 11 starts and 61.1 innings with a 4.40 ERA. Jon has really turned it on in his last three starts posting an ERA of 1.33 over a stretch of 20.1 innings. In that stretch he has walked only 6 and struck out 14 batters. In his one start against the Marlins this year he allowed 8 hits, 2 earned runs and one unearned over 6.0 innings of work. The Marlins have the following numbers against him:

Polanco 12-35, 5 2B
Coghlan 2-10, 2B
Ruggiano 2-8
Dobbs 1-4
Olivo 1-3

Tom Koehler is 0-4 this season over 11 games and 5 starts with 41.1 innings while posting a 3.40 ERA. He has pitched 30.0 innings as a starter with a 3.90 ERA. He pitched 3.0 innings against the Mets allowing 1 hit, no runs while striking out 5 batters. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Murphy 1-5
Baxter 1-3, 2B
Davis 1-3, 2B
Duda 0-3
Wright 0-3

Lets Go Mets!

Last night’s game was rained out as the tri-state area turned into the Atlantic Ocean East…or at least Newark did. Anyway today’s pitching matchup is the same as yesterday’s and yesterday’s game will be made up as a single admission doubleheader on September 14th.

The Marlins come back to Citi Field tonight as the Mets look for vengeance after being swept by the Marlins last weekend. There’s not a lot of certainty in this series thanks to Mother Nature. Last night’s game was rained out and the current plan is to have Harvey still start to night, move Marcum tomorrow and have Niese go on Sunday. It’s also supposed to rain today, and tonight, and early tomorrow, so we’ll see what happens with the schedule. Anyway Harvey goes up against a familiar foe in Jose Fernandez.

Matt Harvey is 5-0 over 12 starts and a 2.17 ERA while pitching 83.0 innings with 89 strikeouts. His last outing was quite human as he allowed 10 hits and 4 ER over 5.0 innings against the Marlins, so he is searching for revenge tonight. The Marlins have the following numbers against Harvey:

Pierre 5-11
Dobbs 1-5, 2B
Brantly 2-5
Polanco 0-4
Coghlan 3-3, 2B
Fernandez 0-2

Jose Fernandez is 3-3 with a 3.34 ERA over 11 games and 59.1 innings of work in his rookie season so far. Tonight will be his 4th start of the season against the Mets, and we are barely out of the first week of June. Seriously this guy pitches against the Mets 33% of the time. So far against the Mets this year he has pitched 16.0 innings with a 1.69 ERA. The Mets have the following numbers against Jose:

Duda 1-6
Murphy 1-7
Davis 0-4
Buck 1-5, HR
Wright 0-5
OMARS COMING. 2-3 (You’ll have to excuse me, The Wire is one of my favorite pieces of all media of all time)

Lets Go Mets!

The Marlins come back to Citi Field tonight as the Mets look for vengeance after being swept by the Marlins last weekend. There’s not a lot of certainty in this series thanks to Mother Nature. Last night’s game was rained out and the current plan is to have Harvey still start to night, move Marcum tomorrow and have Niese go on Sunday. It’s also supposed to rain today, and tonight, and early tomorrow, so we’ll see what happens with the schedule. Anyway Harvey goes up against a familiar foe in Jose Fernandez.

Matt Harvey is 5-0 over 12 starts and a 2.17 ERA while pitching 83.0 innings with 89 strikeouts. His last outing was quite human as he allowed 10 hits and 4 ER over 5.0 innings against the Marlins, so he is searching for revenge tonight. The Marlins have the following numbers against Harvey:

Pierre 5-11
Dobbs 1-5, 2B
Brantly 2-5
Polanco 0-4
Coghlan 3-3, 2B
Fernandez 0-2

Jose Fernandez is 3-3 with a 3.34 ERA over 11 games and 59.1 innings of work in his rookie season so far. Tonight will be his 4th start of the season against the Mets, and we are barely out of the first week of June. Seriously this guy pitches against the Mets 33% of the time. So far against the Mets this year he has pitched 16.0 innings with a 1.69 ERA. The Mets have the following numbers against Jose:

Duda 1-6
Murphy 1-7
Davis 0-4
Buck 1-5, HR
Wright 0-5
OMARS COMING. 2-3 (You’ll have to excuse me, The Wire is one of my favorite pieces of all media of all time)

Lets Go Mets!

Stop the presses! The Mets scored a bunch of runs last night while beating the Washington Nationals! While that doesn’t bode well for their run scoring averages for the rest of the week, the Mets look to make it two in a row today as they take on the Nationals for the rubber game. Shaun Marcum gets the nod for the Amazin’s as he faces off against Gio Gonzalez.

Shaun Marcum is 0-6 this season for the Mets with a 5.71 ERA over 41.0 innings of work. His last outing isn’t as bad as his line makes it look (6.2 IP, 4 ER) as for 6 innings he things pretty much on lock but the wheels came off in the 7th (and it didn’t help that the Mets bats were doing nada). This start was on the heels of his 7.0 IP, 2 ER, 12 K performance that was the highlight of his season. He hasn’t faced the Nationals yet this season but last year he pitched 6.0 innings against them allowing 4 hits and 2 ER. The Nationals have the following numbers against him:

Suzuki 1-11
Werth 0-7, 6 K
Span 0-6
Zimmerman 2-6, HR
LaRoche 1-5, HR
Desmond 0-2

Gio Gonzalez is 3-3 this season over 12 starts with a 3.64 ERA and 71.2 innings of work. Gio has been recovering from a rough patch in the middle of April. In his last start he allowed 1 ER over 7 innings of work. Earlier this season he allowed 5 ER over 5 hits and 4.0 innings against the Mets who have the following numbers against him:

Wright 3-11, 3B, HR
Buck 2-12, 2B
Davis 4-12, 2B, HR
Turner 2-13
Byrd 2-8
Murphy 1-6

Lets Go Mets!

The Mets continue their series with the Nationals tonight as they try to look past the last four games. Once again, the Mets offense struggled in a game that was win-able last night. Today, Dillon Gee looks to build off of his last start as he takes on Dan Haren.

Dillon Gee is 3-6 over 11 starts this year with a 5.68 ERA. His last start was by far the best of the season as he allowed only one earned run over 7.1 innings and struck out 12 batters. Terry made a controversial move at the time taking him out in the 8th with a low pitch count (after an impressive streak of K’s) but the move ended up working. In his one start against Washington this year he shutout the Nationals over 5.2 innings of work allowing 3 hits. The Nationals have the following numbers against him:

Desmond 4-17, 2 HR
Espinosa 1-13
Zimmerman 3-15, 2B
Bernadina 2-11, HR
LaRoche 1-8

Dan Haren is 4-6 over 11 starts this year with a 5.09 ERA while pitching 63.2 innings. Things are starting to come together for Haren recently as in his last two starts he has allowed 5 ER over 13.1 innings of work (before that 7 ER over 5 IP). The last time he faced the Mets was back in 2011 where he allowed 6 ER over 4.0 innings and 7 hits. The Mets have the following numbers against Haren:

Byrd 8-16, 2 2B, 3B
Wright 4-16, 2 2B, HR
Buck 2-13
Murphy 2-5, 2B, HR
Davis 0-2

Lets Go Mets!