213 Miles From Shea

The Mets aim to win their third consecutive series tonight as the play the Marlins for game two. The bullpen over the last week has been really effective, and last night R.A. Dickey decided to give them the night off as he pitched a 5 hit, complete game shut out, which just cut up the Marlins. Tonight Hefner looks to build off of his last start as he takes on Josh Johnson.

Jeremy Hefner is 2-5 with a 4.65 ERA over 69.2 innings of work. His last start was easily the best of the season as he pitching into the ninth inning before allowing a run (and really, that was due to some interesting defense behind him). He has only pitched one inning against the Marlins this season, and it has been a scoreless one. The following Marlins have limited numbers against Hefner:

Lee 0-1
Reyes 0-1
Stanton 0-1

The Mets bats will get a look at a familiar Josh Johnson who is 7-11 this season with a 4.00 ERA over 157.1 innings of work. In his first fours starts of August, Johnson was doing really well (2.43 ERA) but got thrown off in his last start allowing 6 ER over 3.0 innings of work. Against the Mets he has pitched 12.2 innings this year allowing 4 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against Johnson:

Wright 8-35, 2B, 3B, HR
Murphy 6-23, 2 2B
Davis 2-12
Bay 5-12, 3B, HR
Thole 3-9, 2 2B
Torres 5-5, 3 2B

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets head down to Miami today to take on the Marlins in what will be an important series to stay out of the basement of the National League East. Going into yesterday’s game the Mets had a four game winning streak that was snapped even after a quality start of Jon Niese and the bullpen holding down the fort. Tonight R.A. Dickey takes the mound as he faces Nathan Eovaldi, who just keeps drawing the Mets.

R.A. Dickey is 16-4 on the season over 186.1 innings of work while posting an ERA of 2.76 striking out 183 batters. In his last two starts he has pitched a combined 14.0 innings while allowing only 2 earned runs. Dickey is 3-0 in as many starts this year against the Marlins holding them to 1.64 earned runs per game over 22 innings. The Marlins have the following numbers against Dickey:

Lee 9-25, 3 2B, HR
Reyes 2-16
Buck 3-13, 2B
Dobbs 2-14
Stanton 3-13, 2B
Kearns 1-3

Nathan Eovaldi makes another start against the Mets, which is amazing when you consider that he was traded from the Dodgers. On the season he is 4-9 with a 4.54 ERA over 83.1 innings. Against the Mets, he has a 3.86 ERA over 3 starts and 14.2 innings of work. Eovaldi is coming off of a rough start allowing 6 ER over 3 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against Nathan:

Tejada 1-7
Wright 2-8
Davis 2-6, 2B, HR
Murphy 3-5, 2 2B
Thole 2-5
Duda 2-5

Let’s Go Mets!

THE METS ARE GOING IN FOR THE SWEEP! THE METS ARE GOING IN FOR A FIVE GAME WIN STREAK! The Amazin’s are all but mathematically eliminated right now, but after this dismal 7+ weeks of play, it is still exciting to see the way the Mets have played this past week. It helps to bring back hope that our boys can put it all together on the baseball diamond. This afternoon, Jon Niese goes in for the kill as he faces off against Kyle Kendrick.

Jon Niese is 10-7 over 25 starts this year pitching 159.0 innings while posting an ERA of 3.51. In the month of August he pitched 35.1 innings over 5 starts with an ERA of 2.29 and 27 K’s. He has pitched 24.2 innings against the Phillies this year in 4 starts with a 2.55 ERA. The Phillies have the following numbers against Niese:

Polanco 11-32, 5 2B
Rollins 6-29, 2B
Mayberry 7-25, 2B, 3 HR
Utley 2-12
Howard 1-13
Wigginton 3-8, 2B

The Mets bats look to continue their slight bump in production against Kyle Kendrick today, who is 7-9 this season pitching 118.0 innings with an ERA of 4.12. He has been on point in his last three starts he has pitched 21.2 innings while allowing only 2 ER. This season he has logged 2.1 innings against the Mets while allowing 5 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against Kyle:

Wright 9-27, 2B, 2 HR
Bay 3-19, 2B
Thole 6-17
Davis 4-13, 2 2B
Murphy 2-11, 2B

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets won yesterday! The Mets won the day before that! The Mets won the day before that as well! That’s right, we are on a three game winning streak folks! Anyway the Mets look to extend their streak to four games tonight as they play the Phillies after scoring runs late yesterday to take the game from the Phils. Tonight Matt Harvey gets the start against Cole Hamels.

Matt Harvey is 2-3 this season with a 2.75 ERA over 6 games and 36 innings with 43 K’s. In his last three starts, he has allowed only 4ER and 9 hits over 19.2 innings and 20 K’s. Since this is Harvey’s 7th start of his career, he has no batting records against the Phillies since he has never played them.

The Mets bats get a familiar foe tonight in Cole Hamels who is 14-6 this year with a 2.99 ERA. After getting off to a torrid start in August (7 innings, 3 IP followed by back to back complete game shutouts), Hamels has cooled off a bit and become human in his last two starts allowing 6 ER over 13.2 innings of work. In 15 innings and two games against the Mets this year, Cole has allowed 6 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against Cole:

Wright 16-46, 3 2B, 3B, 3 HR
Hairston 11-28, 4 2B, 5 HR
Tejada 3-9
Murphy 5-17, 2B, HR
Davis 5-16

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets open up a series in Philly tonight, and do so with a winning “streak”, as the Mets have won back to back games. The basement of the NL East has been in turmoil recently with Philly rising up and ascending to third, with the Mets two games behind them (followed by the Marlins 1.5 games behind the Amazins). Tonight’s starters will be Chris Young and Vance Worley.

Chris Young is 3-7 over 14 starts and 81.0 innings while posting an ERA of 4.33. He was a victim of interesting defense in his last start and in his last two games he has pitched 12.2 innings while allowing only 2 earned runs, 4 total. In his one start against the Phillies this year, he allowed 3 ER over 7 innings of work. The Phillies have the following numbers against Chris Young:

Pierre 6-29
Howard 2-13, 2B
Rollins 2-16
Utley 5-16, 2B, 3 HR
Polanco 2-8, 2B

Vance Worley is 6-9 over 22 starts and 128.2 innings with an ERA of 4.06. In his last four starts he has pitched 19.2 innings while allowing 14 ER. He has also logged 10 innings against the Mets this year while allowing 10 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against Vance:

Bay 3-11
Murphy 7-12, 2B, 3B
Tejada 5-14
Thole 5-11, 2B
Wright 3-13, HR
Duda 4-8, 2B, HR
Turner 4-10, 2 2B

Let’s Go Mets!