213 Miles From Shea

The Mets and Reds close out the season today as the Mets look to end on a high note. Once again, the story for the Mets will be if Reyes can hold to the league lead in batting average. Today Miguel Batista will be facing Edinson Volquez.

Batista is 1-0 on the season over 21.2 innings of work with an ERA of 3.47. This season against the Reds he has logged 0.2 innings while allowing 2 earned runs. The Reds have the following numbers against him:

Renteria 10-35, 3 2B, HR

Hernandez 4-12, 2B

Cairo 4-8

Phillips 0-5

The Reds will sending out Volquez who is 5-6 with a 5.84 ERA. In his career against the Mets, he has a 7.71 ERA in 14 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against Volquez:

Reyes 4-5

Wright 0-3

Harris 1-1, 3B

Let's Go Mets!

Happy Offseason!

The Mets and Reds play game two of this final series of the season as the Mets look to end their slide. To be honest though, the reason we are all watching at this point is mostly to see if Reyes can take the NL Batting title, as he just barely leads Braun. Capuano will get the start for the Mets tonight as he goes against Arroyo.

Capuano is 11-12 with a 4.55 ERA going into his final start of the season. In the month of September he is 1-1 over 4 starts with a 5.66 ERA. In his one start against the Reds this season, he pitched 5.1 innings allowing 6 ER. The Res have the following numbers against Chris:

Phillips 12-26, 3 2B, HR

Renteria 3-18

Stubbs 3-9, HR

Votto 3-9, 2B

The Mets batters will get a chance to look at Arroyo who is 9-12 with a 5.09 ERA. In the month of September, he has pitched 24.1 innings over 4 starts with a 4.81 ERA (he has had two incredible starts and two terrible starts). When he played against the Mets this year, he pitched 6.0 innings, allowed 7 hits, 5 runs, 4 earned. The Mets have the following numbers against Bronson:

Reyes 9-33, 4 2B, HR

Wright 7-31, HR

Harris 6-21

Paulino 6-17, 3 2B

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and Reds open up the last series of the 2011 season tonight as the Mets look to end the season on a strong note. Yesterday, the Mets dropped the series finale to the Phillies, after taking the two previous games. Tonight Schwinden gets the start for the Mets as he takes on Bailey of the Reds.

Schwinden is 0-2 this season in three major league career starts where he has logged 16.0 innings pitched with a 5.06 ERA. He has never faced the Reds or any batters on the Reds team in a major league game.

The Mets will get to see Homer Bailey who is 9-7 this season with a 4.32 ERA. He made one start against the Mets this season where he pitched 4.0 innings, allowing 12 hits and 9 earned runs. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Bay 2-3, 2 2B

Pagan 2-3

Reyes 0-3

Wright 3-3

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and Phillies start a series today in Queens. The Mets are on a high after one of the more improbable comebacks of the year as the Mets scored 6 runs in the top of the ninth against a team that needed to win. So for first time in a while the Mets got to play spoiler against someone else. Anyway, tonight Dickey will get the start as he goes against Hamels.

Dickey is 8-13 on the season with a 3.35 ERA. In the last three starts he has pitched 21.2 innings with a 1.25 ERA. He has only made one start against the Phillies this season where he pitched 7.0 innings allowing 4 ER. The Phillies have the following numbers against Dickey:

Polanco 7-23

Ibanez 7-22, 3 HR

Pence 2-12, HR

Rollins 1-11

Howard 2-4

The Mets will get a crack at Hamels tonight, who is 14-9 this season with a 2.80 ERA. He has been human in his last two starts as he has allowed 8 ER in 12.0 innings of work. Also, the Mets have had his number this year. He has pitched 14.0 innings in 3 games against the Mets, where they have scored 15 ER against him. The Mets have the following numbers on Cole:

Reyes 12-37, 2 2B

Wright 12-32, 3 2B, 3B, 2 HR

Pagan 9-33, 2B, HR

Paulino 4-14

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and the Cardinals finisht their three game series today as the 2011 season continues to wind down. Yesterday the Mets dropped the second game of the series as they lost by the score of 6-5. Today Chris Capuano gets the start for the Mets wile Westbrook gets the start for the Cards.

Capuano is 11-12 this season with a 4.47 ERA. In his last two starts, he has pitched 11.0 innings while allowing only 3 ER. Last year he made one start against the Cardinals where he pitched 8.0 innings allowing only one earned run. The Cardinals have the following numbers against Capuano:

Pujols 17-30, 4 2B, 4 HR

Holliday 8-23, 2B, HR

Berkman 7-19, 3 2B

Molina 2-13, 2B

Patterson 1-9

Jake Westbrook is 12-9 this season with a 4.58 ERA. In his last three starts he has pitched 14.2 innings with a 3.07 ERA. He made one start against the Mets this year where he allowed 2 ER over 8 innings of work. The Mets have the following number against Jake:

Harris 2-10

Pagan 2-6

Reyes 3-7, 2B, 3B

Paulino 0-6

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets try to avoid the four game sweep by the Nationals today as they play the early afternoon game. In today's game, the Mets will send out Chris Schwinden for his second career start. In his first start of the season, he allowed 8 hits and 8 earned runs in 5.0 innings of work against the Braves. He has never faced anyone in the Nationals organization at the major league level.

The Nationals will sound out Tom Milone today who has made two major league starts, allowing 7 earned runs in 10.0 innings of work. His debut was against the Mets as he allowed 4 ER in 4.1 innings of work in a game the Nationals eventually won. The Mets have the following numbers against Milone:

Reyes 1-3

Pagan 1-2

Wright 1-2, 2B

Turner 1-2

Evans 1-2, HR

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets dropped the second game of the series last night and now are looking at a four game losing streak as they go into tonight's game. They will have to try to turn it around with Mike Pelfrey tonight as he takes on Brad Peacock of the Nationals.

Mike Pelfrey is 7-11 on the season with a 4.66 ERA over 177.2 innings of work. In his last four starts he is 3-1 wit 23.1 innings pitched over a 5.01 ERA. He has made one start against the Nationals this year where he allowed 3 ER in 4.2 innings of work. The Nationals have the following numbers against Big Pelf:

Zimmerman 11-48, 2B, HR

Weth 8-30, 2B, 3B

Desmond 4-14, 2 2B, 3B, HR

Ankiel 5-11

The Mets bats will get a look at Brad Peacock tonight, who has pitched 1.1 innings in the majors, allowing 4 hits and one walk. Between two leagues in the minors this year, he was 15-3 with a 2.39 ERA over 146.2 innings of work. This will be his first major league start.

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and Nationals play game two tonight as the Nationals just barely edged out the Mets last night. The Mets bat went cold last night as they lost 3-2 and even worse, the Mets gloves continued to go bad as mistakes really cost the Mets this game. Today they look to get beyond this with Dillon Gee as he takes on Chien-Ming Wang.

Dillon Gee is 12-6 this season with a 4.42 ERA. He bounced back in his last start as he allowed only 2 earned runs in 6 innings of work against the Braves. He is 2-0 in three starts vs the Nationals this season where he has pitched 19.1 innings with a 3.72 ERA. The Nationals have the following numbers against him:

Espinosa 0-9

Werth 2-10

Desmond 2-10, HR

Zimmerman 1-9

Wang is 2-3 on the season with a 4.43 ERA. In the month of September, Wang has pitched 11.2 innings over two starts while allowing 8 earned runs. His first start of the season was against the Mets where he pitched 4.0 innings allowing 6 runs, 4 earned runs. The Mets have the following numbers against Wang:

Wright 4-13, 2B

Reyes 2-9, 2B

Harris 2-5

Bay 2-4

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and Nationals open up a series tonight as the Mets try to bounce back from a losing series over the weekend and get back on the path to a .500 season. The Mets will be starting with R.A. Dickey tonight as they take on Ross Detwiler.

Dickey is 8-11 with a 3.47 ERA this season. In his last five starts, he is 3-0 over 33.1 innings pitched with a cool 2.16 ERA. Against the Nationals this year he has pitched four games with a 1-2 record over 23.2 innings with a 4.18 ERA. The Nationals have the following numbers against Robert Allen:

Werth 9-22, 2 2B, 2 HR

Ankiel 8-20, 3 2B, HR

Zimmerman 2-16

Desmond 2-15, 3B

Espinosa 0-11

Ross Detwiler is 2-5 this season with a 3.83 ERA in only 47.0 innings of work this season. His last start was against the Mets where he allowed 7 hits and 6 earned runs over only 3 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against him:

Pagan 1-4

Wright 3-5, 2 2B, HR

Bay 1-3

Duda 1-3

Evans, 1-3, HR

Let's Go Mets!

Today is one of those days where the game doesn't mean that much. Today is one of those days where we can take a step back from baseball and be thankful that we live in a world where we can have baseball, where can have the leisure time to enjoy a sport and the freedom to live our lives the way we do. The Mets and the Cubs will close out the series tonight as the Mets try to look beyond last night's game and try to get back in the win column. Batista will be taking on Matt Garza of the Cubs tonight.

Batista is 4-2 on the season with a 3.92 ERA and is 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA in his first 12 innings as a New York Met. He has logged in 4.1 innings against the Cubs this year, all of them scoreless The Cubs have the following numbers against Miguel Batista:

Soriano 3-27

Byrd 2-16

Ramirez 2-14, 2B

Pena 4-13, 2 2B

The Mets will get a look at Matt Garza tonight who is 8-10 on the year with a 3.52 ERA. In his last three starts he is 2-1 with a 2.79 ERA over 19.1 innings of work. Garza has actually never started the game against the Mets. These are the players who have numbers against Garza:

Bay 5-20, 2B, 2 3B

Harris 0-3

Paulino 1-3, 2B

Turner 0-1

Let's Go Mets!