213 Miles From Shea

The Mets try to avoid the four game sweep today as they take on the Rockies in an afternoon game. Tyler Chatwood will get the start for the Rockies today as Collin McHugh will be making his major league debut. McHugh, who has been described as Gee-esque, 7-9 over 143.2 innings this season in two minor leagues. In that stretch he has an ERA of 2.88, a WHIP of 1.143 and a K/9 of 8.3. Obviously, since this is his major league debut, he has no major league stats against any batters on the Rockies roster.

The Mets bats will look to wake up against the Rockies and Tyler Chatwood, who is 3-3 on the season with an ERA of 5.46 over 31.1 innings. He just starting games this month, and had his worst one by far his last time out allowing 6 ER over 4.0 innings. The following Mets have numbers against Chatwood:

Bay 0-3
Murphy 0-3
Tejada 1-3
Thole 2-2
Turner 1-3, 2B

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets look to get back on the right foot tonight as Matt Harvey takes on Jeff Francis in game three of the four game set. Last night Chris Young struck out 9 batters, but the lack offense at home proved to be the ultimate downfall again. Matt Harvey has pitched 30 innings this season over 5 starts with a 3.00 ERA with his last start easily being the best of his young career. In 7.2 innings he allowed 1 ER, 4 H while striking out 8 batters. Harvey has never faced the Rockies and nobody on the Rockies roster, no batting stats to report.

Jeff Francis is 4-4 on the season over 15 starts and 72.2 innings with an ERA of 6.07. In the month of August he has pitched 18.0 innings over 4 starts while allowing 16 ER (8.00 ERA). The last time he faced the Mets in 2010 he allowed 2 ER over 6 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against Francis:

Hairston 7-18, 2B
Wright 6-12, 3 HR
Bay 8-12, 2 2B, HR
Cedeno 2-5, HR
Torres 0-3

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets dropped the opener of the series last night to the Rockies, and will play game two tonight as Chris Young gets the start against Jhoulys Chacin. Chris Young is 3-6 over 74.0 innings this year with a 4.50 ERA. He rebounded really well in his last start as he shut out the Reds over 5.2 innings (previous start allowed 7 ER over 4.1 innings). In his career he has a 4.02 ERA over 13 starts against the Rockies who have the following numbers against him:

Fowler 2-4
Francis 0-6
Herrera 1-2
Hernandez 0-2

Jhoulys Chacin is 0-3 this season over 5 starts this season pitching 24.2 innings while posting a 7.30 ERA.  He is coming off of his worst start of the season as he allowed 7 ER over 4.2 innings. Last year he made one start against the Mets pitching 6.0 innings allowing 1 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Torres 2-9, 2 2B
Cedeno 1-5, 3B
Bay 0-2
Davis 2-3
Murphy 0-3

Let’s Go Mets!

From a mile high to Flushing, Queens, Colorado is coming to town. The Mets are coming back from a six game road trip in which they went 2-4, the same record as their last home stand. R.A. Dickey gets the start for the Mets today as he takes on Alex White. Dickey is 15-4 over 168.1 innings of work with an ERA of 2.89. Dickey had a good stretch of starts get interrupted last time out as he allowed 5 ER over 6 innings and 10 hits against the Reds. Last year he had one start against the Rox where he allowed 5 ER over 6.1 innings. The Rockies have the following stats against Dickey:

Hernandez: 0-4
Fowler: 2-4
(and that’s it, seriously)

Alex White is 2-6 over 14 starts and 69.0 innings with an ERA of 5.74. In his last four starts he has an ERA of 3.63 in that very interesting set up that the Rockies have. One start was 5.1 innings, the others were 4.0. In his young career he has never faced the Mets and the only person on the Mets to see him is Torres (0-2).

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets have the chance to win a series today as they take on Gio Gonzalez and the Washington Nationals. Last night Jon Niese had an excellent pitching performance and he, with Rauch and Francisco, were able to shut out the Naitonals. Hefner will get the start for the Mets today and he is 2-4 on the season over 56.2 innings with a 4.76 ERA. August has been a much better month for Jeremy as he has been in 4 games for 12.1 innings with a 2.13 ERA. Against the Nationals this year he has pitched 12 innings allowing 5 ER. The Nats have the following stats on Hefner:

Espinosa 3-6, 2B, HR
Harper 1-6
LaRoche 2-6, HR
Lombardozzi 2-6
Morse 3-6, HR
Zimmerman 1-5
Desmond 0-3

Gio Gonzalez is 15-6 with a 3.29 ERA over 147.2 innings this year. He has pitched 29.2 innings in his last four starts while posting an ERA of 3.94. He actually faced the Mets in back to back starts this year with two very different stories. The first time he allowed 6 ER over 3 innings, the second time he allowed one unearned run over 7 innings. The Mets have the following numbers on Gio:

Torres 4-15, 2B
Bay 0-8
Hairston 1-8, 2B
Shoppach 0-6
Turner 0-6
Davis 3-5, HR
Tejada 1-5
Wright 1-4, HR

Let’s Go Mets!

The Mets try to bounce back from last night’s game as they play game two with the Nationals in DC. Niese will get the start for the Mets and on the season he is 9-6 over 23 starts and 144.2 innings with an ERA of 3.67. Jon is coming off of a great start against Atlanta where he held the Braves to 1 ER over 8.0 innings while walking 2 and striking out 6. In one start vs Washington this year, he held the Nationals to 1 ER over 7.0 innings, allowing 3 hits, no walks with 8 strikeouts. The Nationals have the following numbers against Jon:

Werth 4-14
LaRoche 3-12, 2 HR
Morse 3-12, 3 2B
Zimmerman 4-11, 2B
Espinosa 3-7, 2B
Harper 1-3

Edwin Jackson, Washington’s starter, is 7-7 this year over 22 starts and 133.1 innings with a 3.74 ERA. In the month of August he has pitched 16.2 innings over 3 games allowing 10 ER but he has also struck out 20 batters over that stretch. Against the Mets this year he has pitched 12 innings over two games allowing 6 runs, 5 earned. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Shoppach 2-13, 2B
Bay 3-12, HR
Torres 2-10, 2B, 3B
Cedeno 2-8, 2B
Wright 2-8
Thole 1-7
Hairston 0-7
Murphy 1-6
Davis 1-3, 2B

Let’s Go Mets!