Know Your Foe #37: Meet The Mets, Meet The Mets. Come And Meet The Mets!

by Russ Oates on Aug 10, 2010 11:30 AM MDT in Know Your Foe

New York Mets (55-56, 9.0 GB, 3rd NL East, 7.5 WCGB)

Last Series vs. Rockies: 1-2 series loss @ Coors Field April 13-15

Let's travel back to those heady days of the early season. Greg Smith pitched one of his few good games in 2010 by striking out eight Mets and limiting those guys to two runs in seven innings. Seth Smith went 2-for-5 with three RBI and a homer. The next day the Rockies needed extra innings to win the second game 6-5. Chris Iannetta hit the walk-off homer in the bottom of the 10th. Jon Niese got knocked around by the Rockies for five runs in five innings. Unfortunately, the Rockies couldn't complete the sweep and got shutout 5-0 by Mike Pelfrey.

Last Two Series Results: 1-2 series loss @ Atlanta; 1-2 series loss @ Philly

I'll let Troy Renck sum up Mets recently:

Mets season virtually ended on last road trip through ATL and Phi. Why? Wright and Beltran went 5-for-45 with 2 RBIs.

Before getting to the pitching match, I answered five questions for Mets Gazette. Check 'em out here.

Tuesday-Thursday: 3-game series @ Citi Field

Expected Pitching Match-ups

Tuesday, 10 August 2010 @ 5:10 p.m. MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Ubaldo Jimenez	17-2	22	22	3	2	0	0	148.1	104	45	43	7	60	135	2.61	1.11

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Mike Pelfrey	10-6	23	22	0	0	1	0	129.2	150	63	60	9	50	77	4.16	1.54

Wednesday, 11 August 2010 @ 5:10 p.m. MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jeff Francis	4-4	15	15	0	0	0	0	86.2	95	47	45	6	19	54	4.67	1.32

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jon Niese	7-5	21	20	1	1	0	0	119.0	124	53	48	14	42	93	3.63	1.39

I'll be at this game, so I hope Jeff Francis throws the first perfect game in Rockies' history.

Thursday, 12 August 2010 @ 10:10 a.m. MT

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Jason Hammel	8-6	20	20	0	0	0	0	123.1	127	62	60	11	33	102	4.38	1.30

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Johan Santana	9-6	24	24	1	1	0	0	162.0	151	56	55	10	49	111	3.06	1.23

Expected Lineup

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Jose Reyes	SS	0.280	0.320	0.416	0.736	0.136	0.303	0.326
Angel Pagan	RF	0.311	0.370	0.475	0.845	0.164	0.353	0.375
Carlos Beltran	CF	0.195	0.300	0.312	0.612	0.117	0.222	0.265
David Wright	3B	0.293	0.366	0.495	0.861	0.202	0.365	0.369
Ike Davis	1B	0.253	0.328	0.435	0.764	0.183	0.304	0.334
Fernando Martinez	LF	0.200	0.200	0.200	0.400	0.000	0.250	0.179
Josh Thole	C	0.323	0.417	0.403	0.820	0.081	0.345	0.376
Ruben Tejada	2B	0.196	0.278	0.232	0.510	0.036	0.239	0.232

Fernando Martinez was just brought up to the majors after hitting .255/.321/.466 for Triple-A Buffalo. He's probably going to split time 50/50 with Jeff Francoeur in the outfield. Martinez's star has diminished over the last few years, but he shouldn't be wasting away on the bench while Jeff Francouer gets starts.

Ruben Tejada moved into a starting role recently, displacing Luis Castillo (did ya hear that the Mets offered Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo for Carlos Zambrano and were turned down?). This is his third time with the Mets this season. He started the season with the team before Jose Reyes returned a couple of games into the season and then came back for all of June and most of July.

Carlos Beltran has been back for about a month and done nothing.

Bench

Player	Pos	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	BABIP	wOBA
Mike Hessman	1B/3B	0.188	0.316	0.438	0.753	0.250	0.182	0.336
Henry Blanco	C	0.263	0.314	0.368	0.683	0.105	0.299	0.301
Chris Carter	OF	0.264	0.295	0.396	0.690	0.132	0.275	0.298
Jeff Francoeur	OF	0.241	0.294	0.385	0.679	0.144	0.260	0.293
Luis Castillo	2B	0.245	0.339	0.286	0.625	0.041	0.261	0.293

Closer

	W-L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	BS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	ERA	WHIP
2010 - Francisco Rodriguez	4-2	51	0	0	0	24	5	55.1	44	14	14	3	21	66	2.28	1.17

Injuries

New York Mets Injuries

15-Day

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
John Maine	shoulder	05/21/2010
Rod Barajas	oblique	07/25/2010
Jason Bay	concussion	07/26/2010
Sean Green	ribs	04/08/2010

60 Day DL / Out for the season

Player	Injury Type	Injury Date
Fernando Tatis	shoulder	07/05/2010
Kelvim Escobar	shoulder	03/26/2010

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we can beat a team we are supposed to…multiple times

My heart is Black and it makes Rocky Mountain purple blood and I piss the Orange and Blue Denver Bronco excellence.

by waterboy31321 on Aug 10, 2010 11:36 AM MDT reply actions

ill be at the game tonight

so they better at least win that one…and get 1 more in the series…time to break the curse of NY

time to make another run to the postseason....get it going guys!!

Troy Tulowitzki: "When people think of the Rockies, I want them to think of a winning organization."

by TuLoRocks2008 on Aug 10, 2010 11:43 AM MDT reply actions

Meet the Mets, meet the Mets,

Step right up and beat the Mets.

Ubaldomania.

by The Lodo Magic Man on Aug 10, 2010 11:52 AM MDT via mobile reply actions

This series frightens me

I know the Mets have a 55-56 record but they are 33-19 at home this season. Combine that with the Rockies 22-34 road record and we are facing a team who has been 13 games better than us this season as far as this matchup is concerned.

I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to see the Rockies take 2 out of three here and just get the hell out. We NEED to win the Ubaldo game tonight because if we don’t this series could get really, really ugly.

Oh, and the fact that the Padres and Giants will both be at home playing the Pirates and Cubs only makes this series even more significant in my mind.

If the 2007 Rockies can win 21 out of 22 to reach the World Series and the 2009 Rockies can come from 12 games under .500 in June to make the playoffs, why can't the 2010 Rockies make the postseason after being 51-50?

Yankee Haters Encouragement Group Member #1

by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Aug 10, 2010 12:04 PM MDT reply actions