213 Miles From Shea

The Mets are now riding a four game winning streak as they took both games of the doubleheader yesterday,and they look to continue their winning ways again. Yesterday the Mets got an excellent start from Dickey and good start from Gee as the bullpen was able to hold on and the offense was able to provide runs. Tonight Pelfrey will get the start from the Amazin's as he takes on Vazquez.

Pelfrey is 7-10 on the season with a 4.60 ERA. In the month of August he has pitched 27.2 innings with a 4.88 ERA. He has made four starts already against the Marlins this season where he has pitched 23.1 innings with a 0-1 record and a 4.63 ERA. The fish have the following numbers against the Pelfrey:

Infante 15-26, 3B

Dobbs 7-20, 2B, HR

Sanchez 6-14, 2 2B, HR

Stanton 6-14, 2B, 2 HR

The Mets bats will deal with Javier Vazquez today, who is 7-11 this season with a 4.63 ERA. This month Javier has pitched 33.0 innings with a 3.00 ERA. Against the Mets he has made two starts totaling 9.1 innings with an ERA of 4.82. The Mets have the following numbers against Javier:

Wright 4-15, 2 2B, HR

Pagan 2-10, 2B

Bay 3-20, HR

Harris 2-13, HR

Let's Go Mets!

After two days off for the Hurricane, the Mets play two games today against the Marlins as they play an afternoon/night doubleheader. In the Mets last game on Friday night, Capuano gave the bullpen a night off as he dominated the Braves (so, he gave the bullpen off from Thursday through Sunday). In the first game, Dickey will take on Sanchez. In the nightcap, Dillon Gee will take on Ricky Nolasco.

Dickey is 5-11 this season with an ERA of 3.72. In the month of August he has made four starts over 26.1 innings with an ERA of 3.42. He has faced the Marlins only once this season as he pitched 6 innings, allowing 5 hits and one unearned run. The fish have the following numbers against Dickey:

Infante 9-16, 2B, HR

Sanchez 5-11, 3 2B, HR

Dobbs 1-7, 3B

Morrison 1-6

The Mets bats in the first game will take on Sanchez, who is 7-6 this season with a 4.01 ERA. In the month of August he has made 4 starts over 22.0 innings and a 5.73 ERA. In one start against the Mets this season, he allowed 4 earned runs over 11 hits and over 7 innings this season. The Mets have the following numbers against Sanchez over his career:

Wright 8-22, 2B, 2 HR

Pagan 3-13, 2 2B

Bay 4-9, 2B

Tejada 1-4, 2B

In the nightcap the Mets will go with Dillon Gee who on the season is 11-5 with a 4.37 ERA. The month of August has been rough for Dillon who has pitched in four games over 20.1 innings and a 7.97 ERA. Against the Marlins this year he has pitched 5 innings allowing 7 hits and 3 ER. The fish have the following numbers against Dillon Gee:

Infante 1-6

Morrison 1-3

Sanchez 0-2

Stanton 1-3, HR

Finally, the Mets batters will end the day facing Ricky Nolasco, who is 9-9 on the season with a 4.30 ERA. He has struggled in his last two starts, which have wrecked his month totals as he has pitched four starts this month with an ERA of 6.57. He has made one start against the Mets this season where he pitched 7 innings, allowing 7 hits and 2 earned runs. The Mets have the following numbers against Ricky:

Wright 19-50, 4 2B, 4 HR

Bay 6-22, 2B, 2 HR

Pagan 4-14, 2B

Thole 2-8

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and Braves open a series in New York before the hurricane comes to town. The Mets are still in a terrible stretch but saw some light in their last game as they beat the Phils and avoided the sweep in Philly. Tonight, Capuano will get the start for the Amazins as he takes on Hudson of the Braves.

Capuano is 9-11 on the season with a 4.71 ERA. In the month of August he has pitched 23.2 innings over 4 games with an ERA of 5.70. Surprisingly, he hasn't started against the Braves yet this season and has only pitched 0.1 innings where he got an out. The Braves have the following numbers against Chris:

Uggla 2-11, 2B

Bourn 2-11

Jones 1-8

Gonzalez 3-9, 2 2B

McCann 2-6, 2B

The Mets bats will try to repeat Wednesday against Hudson tonight who is 13-7 this season with a 3.01 ERA. In August he pitched 4 games over 29.1 innings with a 1.53 ERA. In three starts against the Mets this season, Tim is 1-2 with a 4.80 ERA over 15.0 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against Tim:

Wright 13-57, 2B, 2 HR

Bay 7-20, 2 2B, HR

Pagan 9-20, 2B, HR

Harris 3-17

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets try to avoid the sweep today in Philly. The last two games have been fairly terrible for the Mets as they lost 10-0 on Monday night and 9-4 last night (and three of those 4 runs were scored after the score was already 9-1). Today the Mets will send out Pelfrey who will try to play stopper as he takes on Kendrick of the Phils.

Pelfrey is 6-10 this season with a 4.61 ERA. In his last start against the Brewers he allowed 4 runs, 3 earned in 5 innings of work while allowing 8 hits and 4 walks. In 19.0 innings against the Phillies this year, he has allowed 16 ER, not a lot of success. The Phillies have the following numbers against Big Pelf:

Howard 15-40, 2 2B, 3 HR

Victorino 13-42, 2 2B, 3B, HR

Utley 10-34, 2 2B, 4 HR

Ibanez 10-34, 2B, HR

The Mets will try to actually score some runs against the Philly as they take on Kendrick who is 7-5 this season with a 3.24 ERA. This month, Kyle has pitched 18.0 innings with an ERA of 2.00. Against the Mets this year he has pitched 15.1 innings with a 1.76 ERA. The Mets have the following numbers against Kendrick:

Pagan 4-24, 2 2B

Wright 6-24, HR

Harris 7-19, 2B, 3B, 2 HR

Paulino 6-17, 3 2B

Thole 5-13

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets try to slow their losing roll tonight as they take on the Phillies for game two of the series. Last night the Mets got outplayed in essentially every category as the Phillies took the game 10-0. Tonight, Niese looks to get the Mets back to playing baseball as he takes on Vance Worley.

Niese is 11-10 this season with a 4.05 ERA. In his last two starts he has pitched 13.2 innings with a 3.29 ERA. Against the Phillies this year he has pitched in four games over 23.2 innings with a 3.42 ERA, which is even more impressive when you remember that his first start against the Phillies this year was a 4 inning, 6 earned run disaster. The Phillies have the following numbers against Jon:

Ibanez 4-16, HR

Rollins 4-16

Valdez 6-17, 2 2B

Francisco 1-10

Howard 1-13

The Mets get another look at Vance tonight who is 8-1 on the season with a 2.76 ERA. In the month of August, he has pitched in 14.0 innings with a 5.41 ERA (also due one bad start, a great start, and a shortened good start). He has a 3.77 ERA against the Mets this year in 14.1 innings of work and the Mets have the following numbers against him:

Bay 2-6

Thole 2-5, 2B

Turner 2-6

Pagan 1-5

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets try to break out of their slump tonight as they make a visit to the city of Brotherly love to start a series with the Phillies. The Mets are on a streak right now similar to the start of the season, and will look to Dillon Gee to help raise them out of it as he takes on Cliff Lee.

Dillon Gee is 11-4 this season with a 3.94 ERA. After two poor starts in a row, he posted a positive one his last time out where he went 6.2 innings allowing only one earned run. This season he has faced the Phillies once as he came out of the pen, pitched 1.2 innings while allowing 4 ER. The Phillies have the following numbers on Gee:

Howard 2-4, 2 HR

Ibanez 0-4

Pence 0-2

Ruiz 0-3

The Mets bats will deal with Cliff Lee tonight who is 13-7 this year with a 2.82 ERA. In his last three starts he has pitched 24.0 innings with a 0.75 ERA (a complete game shutout, 8 innings of shutout, 7 innings 2 earned runs). Against the Mets this year he has made one start where he allowed 8 hits over 7 innings, which produced only one earned run (and only one run total). The Mets have the following numbers against Lee:

Bay 3-9

Turner 0-3

Wright 2-4

Pagan 1-3

Paulino 2-3

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets suffered a tough loss yesterday after making an epic comeback to rise over a bad start from Capuano, Izzy lost the game in the top of the ninth. The Mets try to avoid the sweep at home today as Dickey faces a tough foe in Gallardo.

Dickey is 5-11 this season with a 3.77 ERA. In the month of August he has made three starts pitching 19.1 innings posting an ERA of 3.71. He has not faced the Brewers yet this season but last year he pitched two games against the Brew Crew where he totaled 14.0 innings with an ERA of 3.21. The Brewers have the following numbers on Robert Allen:

Kotsay 4-9, 2 HR

Morgan 1-11

Braun 0-7

Fielder 1-7

Hart 1-7

The Mets bats face one the aces of the Brewers rotation today in Gallardo, who is 13-8 on the season with a 3.55 ERA. In his last six starts he has pitched 41.0 innings with a 1.98 ERA. He had a bad start against the Mets this season as he pitched 4.0 innings allowing 4 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against Yovani:

Paulino 2-13, 2B

Wright 2-11, HR

Pagan 3-10, 3B

Tejada 2-4

Duda 2-3, HR

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets try to look past yesterday as they take on the Brewers for game two of this series. Yesterday, after a very long rain delay, the Mets lost by a score of 6-1. Today they look to Capuano to lead them to victory against Randy Wolf.

Capuano is 9-11 on the season with a 4.58 ERA. He has thrown two nearly identical starts his last two times out where he has pitched 12.0 innings and has allowed 8 runs in them (6 innings per game, 4 runs per game) while also allowing 9 hits per game. When he faced the Brewers earlier this season he allowed only one earned run against them in 6 innings of work. The Brewers have the following numbers on Chris:

Hairston 5-20, HR

Lopez 6-14, 2B, HR

Braun 0-3

Fielder 1-3, HR

McGehee 0-3

The Mets have to deal with Wolf today who is 10-8 with a 3.30 ERA. In his last two starts, he has been very effective pitching a combined 16 innings allowing only one earned run (however in his last start, he also walked 5 batters). Against the Mets this season he pitched 6.2 innings allowing only one earned run. The Mets have the following numbers against Randy:

Wright 9-30, 3 2B, HR

Bay 5-12, 3 2B, HR

Hairston 4-13, 2 2B, HR

Pagan 4-11, 2B

Paulino 5-7

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and the Brewers start a series tonight as the Mets return home to Citi-Field. The Mets finally won a series in San Diego, and look tonight to continue on their journey back to .500. Pelfrey will be getting the start tonight as he faces Marcum of the Brew Crew.

Pelfrey is 6-9 with a 4.58 ERA this season. In his last start, he had to make an early exit for an injury concern. Overall in the month of August, Pelfrey has pitched 16.2 innings with a 4.86 ERA (a number that is inflated in his relief outing against the Padres, where he retired one batter and had a run charged to him). Against the Brewers this season, Pelfrey pitched 6.0 innings allowing 2 ER. The Brewers have the following numbers on Big Pelf:

Morgan 3-20

Hairston 1-14

Fielder 3-9, 2B, HR

Hart 2-9, HR

Braun 3-6, 2B

The Mets will get a look at Marcum tonight who is 10-3 on the season with a 3.50 ERA. In the month of August he has made three starts totaling 19.2 innings of work with an ERA of 4.58. In his start against the Mets this season, he pitched 6 scoreless innings where he allowed only two hits. The Mets have the following numbers on Shaun:

Bay 1-5

Hairston 1-3

Pagan 0-2

Turner 0-2

Tejada 1-2, 2B

Let's Go Mets!

The Mets and Padres close out their series today as the Mets try to avoid losing another series in Petco Park. The game time, about 6:00 here, is rather interesting because it is essentially a night game here but a day game out west. Anyway, the Mets will be behind Dillon Gee tonight as he takes on Latos, the laid back starter the Mets missed the last week when the Padres came to town.

Gee is 10-4 on the season with a 4.07 ERA. His last two starts have been statistically rough as he has allowed 9 ER in 10 innings of work. In his short career he has never faced the Padres franchise nor has he faced any body on the Padres roster.

Mat Latos gets the start for the Padres and he is 6-11 on the season with a 3.80 ERA. So far this month he has made three great starts where he has pitched 21.0 innings allowing 5 ER (an ERA of 2.14). In his career he has faced the Mets twice pitchign 12.0 innings against the Amazins with a 2.25 ERA. The Mets have the following numbers against Mat:

Pagan 0-6

Wright 0-4

Harris 1-4

Bay 0-3

Let's Go Mets!