213 Miles From Shea

The Mets play game three and go for a series win tonight against the Dodgers. The Amazin's have now won three games in a row, three games without Jose Reyes and and are now two games above .500 and last night it was because Jason Bay looked like the Jason Bay we expect him to be. Niese will get the start for the Mets tonight. On the season he is 7-7 with a 3.72 ERA and in his last two games he has pitched 11.2 innings while allowing 5 ER. In his career he has made one start against the Dodgers where he allowed 3 ER in 5.2 innings of work. The Dodgers have the following numbers on Niese:

Miles 1-6

Uribe 0-6

Carrol 0-2

Kemp 2-3

The Mets will have to contend with Kuroda today who is 6-9 on the season with a 2.90 ERA. In his last four starts he has pitched 25.1 innings and has posted an ERA of 1.42. He was dominant against the Mets last season as he allowed only 2 ER in 14 innings against the Mets who have the following numbers against him:

Bay 2-9, HR

Hairston 3-8, HR

Beltran 2-5, 2B, HR

Murphy 2-5, 2 2B

Let's Go Mets!

The Minor Leagues can be a bit nutty. Props to the players who wear this cap. It's cool to look at, but they must have to put up with a lot of comments when they go on the road sporting the road version of the below cap:

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The Mets take on the Dodgers for game two of their series tonight. Mike Pelfrey gets the start for the Mets tonight. He is 4-7 with a 4.92 ERA this season. He has had a rough last two games as he has pitched a combined 10.2 innings allowing 8 runs. Last season he pitched five innings against the Dodgers where he allowed 2 earned runs. The Dodgers have the following numbers against Pelfrey:

Gwynn 3-7

Kemp 4-8

Loney 1-8

Lilly is 5-8 with a 4.97 ERA this season and in his last three starts he has pitched 14.2 innings with a 10.42 ERA. The last time he faced the Mets was back in 2009 where he pitched 7 innings allowing 6 hits and 2 ER against the Amazins. The Mets have the following numbers on Ted:

Hairston 6-20, 2 HR

Paulino 8-16, 2 2B, 2 HR

Bay 2-14, 2B

Beltran 2-8, HR

Pagan 3-7, 2 2B

Let's Go Mets!

Do you remember last season in the playoffs the Texas Rangers had that Antler and Claw thing going on in their dugout? Well like any good MLB franchise, the Rangers made sure to capitalize on a team/fan interaction to make money off of it.

The Mets open up an away series tonight against the Dodgers as they try to find their offense that they had a half week ago, and lost over the weekend at home against the Yankees. Going into this last series, the Mets offense was on fire however the Yankees were able to cool them off until the 9th inning yesterday where the Mets finally won a game and returned to .500 for the season. The Mets will look to rally behind Capuano tonight as he takes on Ted Lilly.

Capuano is 7-7 this season with a 4.27 ERA. Before his last start he was on a streak of four starts where he pitched 25.0 innings with an ERA of 1.08. In his last start he lasted only 5 innings allowing 5 ER. Last year he only pitched one inning against the Dodgers, but it was a good one as it was scoreless. The Dodgers have the following numbers against Chris:

Miles 5-18, 2B

Carroll 2-15, 2B

Ethier 1-6

Kemp 2-5, 3B

Thames 1-3

The Mets bats will hope to continue their rally from the 9th and 10th inning last night against Lilly today. Lilly is 5-8 with a 4.97 ERA this season and in his last three starts he has pitched 14.2 innings with a 10.42 ERA. The last time he faced the Mets was back in 2009 where he pitched 7 innings allowing 6 hits and 2 ER against the Amazins. The Mets have the following numbers on Ted:

Hairston 6-20, 2 HR

Paulino 8-16, 2 2B, 2 HR

Bay 2-14, 2B

Beltran 2-8, HR

Pagan 3-7, 2 2B

Let's Go Mets!

In today's edition, we are going to switch it up a bit and look at the minor league! There are approximately 180+ minor league teams in the nation and some of them have really creative and different logos that they wear on the field. The one's that will be highlighted in this series are either awesome to wear or possibly embarrassing for a grown man to wear.

Today we feature the Midland RockHounds, who's on the field hat fits the bill for both of the categories discussed above.

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Really good news for Reyes tonight. Several days ago he was 240,000 votes behind Tulo and by the end of the voting deadline, he overtook the position rightfully gaining the starting shortstop. As you know, Reyes has been incredible this season and it was just flabbergasting that up until the end he wasn't leading the votes. Beltran got named as a reserve so for this a good day for the two of them. Your starting lineup for the National League is:

C- McCann

1B- Fielder

2B- Weeks

3B- Polanco

SS- Reyes

OF- Braun

OF- Berkman

OF- Kemp

And your starting lineup for the American League:

C- Avila (Really Deserved)

1B- Gonzalez

2B- Cano

3B- ARod

SS- Jeter

OF- Bautista

OF- Granderson

OF- Hamilton

DH- Ortiz

The Mets and Yankees play the final game of the Subway Series today as the Mets look to stop their losing streak today. The big story from last night's game was losing Reyes to a hamstring injury, and in the meantime, Angel Pagan will bat leadoff for the Amazin's. Today the Mets will try to rally behind R.A. Dickey as he takes on Garcia of the Yankees.

Dickey is 4-7 this season with a 3.77 ERA. In the month of June he pitched 35.0 innings in 5 starts as he posted an ERA of 2.57, and it would have been a lot lower if it wasn't for one bad start. He already pitched against the Yankees once this season where he lasted 6 innings allowing 4 hits and only one earned run. The Yankees have the following numbers on Dickey:

Granderson 3-13. 2 2B

Arod 6-11, 2 2B

Swisher 0-8

Posada 0-5

The Mets will get another look at Freddy Garcia today who is 7-6 this season with a 3.28 ERA. In his last four starts he is 3-1 with a 2.03 ERA and against the Mets earlier this season he picked up the loss despite pitching 7 innings and allowing only 2 ER. The Mets have the following numbers on Freddy:

Beltran 14-32, 2 2B, 3B, 3 HR

Bay 0-10

Reyes 1-7

Hairston 2-5, 2B

Paulino 3-3, HR

Let's Go Mets!

Today's cap connects the longest time of the year with the best time of year. There are many teams that have holiday caps, I just chose the Pirates so they would be represented here, and they all look the same. They are all red caps with a green logo that is wearing a Santa hat.

The Mets and Yankees play game two today as the Mets try to rebound from last night. Yesterday, the Yankees got off to an early lead and that was all they needed as the Mets would record 10 hits in the game but only push across one runner. Today Dillon Gee will get the start as he goes against Bartolo Colon.

Dillon Gee qualifies by innings now to have the best winning percentage in the league as he takes his 8-1 record and a 3.32 ERA back to Citi Field this afternoon. After his bad outing against Oakland, he responded with a quality outing in his last start pitching 6 innings allowing only 3 ER. This will be Gee's first time facing the Yankees franchise or anyone on the Yankees roster.

Bartolo Colon is 5-3 this season with a 3.10 ERA. In his last three starts he has pitched 21.0 innings with an ERA of 1.29. Life time against the Mets, Colon is 3-1 with a 3.46 ERA. The Mets have the following numbers against Colon:

Beltran 12-38, 2 2B, 4 HR

Reyes 0-3

Bay 2-3

Let's Go Mets!