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2012
Ike Davis Out, Santana Looks To Stop Mets Four Game Skid
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Starting Lineup
- Andres Torres – CF
- Ruben Tejada – SS
- David Wright – 3B
- Scott Hairston – LF
- Daniel Murphy – 2B
- Justin Turner – 1B
- Kirk Nieuwenhuis – RF
- Mike Nickeas – C
- Johan Santana – LHP
Mets Notes
RECENT METS: New York has lost a season-high four straight games. This three-game homestand is the club’s shortest of the year. New York is 8-6 at home this season. New York was 34-47 at home last year.
FALLING BEHIND EARLY: The opposition has scored first in five of New York’s last six games.
DAVID WRIGHT: David Wright is second in the National League and third in the majors with a .395 batting average. Wright leads the majors with a .505 on-base percentage. He is tied for fourth in the majors with 19 walks and ninth with a .580 slugging percentage.
JOHAN SANTANA: Since 2004, Santana leads all active pitchers with a 2.86 ERA. He is tied for sixth in wins (110) and is second with 1,508 strikeouts during that span. The Mets lefty recorded his 50th career double-digit strikeout game on April 24 vs. Miami. Santana has allowed one run or less in four of his five starts and if you take out his start on April 17 at Atlanta (1.1 innings – the shortest of his career – allowing six runs, four earned) his ERA would be 0.79 (two earned runs/22.2 innings).
RUBEN TEJADA: Went 1-4 last night…Tejada is hitting .438 (14-32) over his last seven games. Overall, Tejada is hitting .303. Tejada has 10 doubles this year, tied for the fourth-most in the majors. He finished with 15 doubles last year in 96 games.
ANDRES TORRES: Went 3-4 with an RBI last night, and has at least one hit and one RBI in all four games since being activated from the 15-Day Disabled List on April 30. It is tied for the longest such streak of his career. Had three, three-game streaks with at least one hit and one RBI, all in 2010. The three hits were the most in a single game since he had three hits on July 15, 2011 with San Francisco at San Diego.
BULLPEN: Over their last seven games, the Mets bullpen is 1-3 with two saves and a 8.64 ERA (24 earned runs/25.0 innings). Overall, the pen ranks 27th in the majors with a 4.95 ERA (46 earned runs/83.2 innings). The pen has six wins, tied for the fifth-most in the majors this season.
Game Preview
The Mets dropped their forth game in a row yesterday as the Diamondbacks clawed out a comeback win against the Amazin’s in Queens. In today’s game the Mets look to rebound with Johan Santana on the mound as he takes on Patrick Corbin of the Diamondbacks, the second rookie in a row the Mets will face.
Johan Santana is 0-2 on the season with a 2.25 ERA over 24.0 innings and 4 starts. In that 24.0 innings, he has walked 11 BB and 29 K. The last time he faced the Diamondbacks was back in 2008 where he pitched 13.0 innings over 2 games allowing only 1 ER with 7 BB and 18 K. The Diamondbacks have the following numbers against Santana:
Bloomquist 3-14
McDonald 1-13
Overbay 1-11
Blanco 1-8
Hill 1-9
The Mets bats will another shot a rookie tonight, this time Patrick Corbin. In his major league debut this year he pitched 5.2 innings allowing 3 ER over 8 hits with 3 BB and 6 K. He was 2-0 in AA this year over 4 starts and 27.0 innings with a 1.67 ERA with 25 K. Last season he was 9-8 in 160.1 innings with an ERA of 4.21. The Mets bats will look to score more runs against Corbin as yesterday they were able to get to Wade only once.
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Not just Ike Davis but Lucas Duda as well is out.
Better hope Santana tosses a shutout and hits one out with this lineup if they are going to stop the bleeding today.
It shows just how dominant Johan has been over his career that he is 2nd in K’s since 2004 and 1st in ERA despite missing a full season and a half in 2010-2011. He would also be higher than 2nd in wins over that time without the injuries. And so far in 2012, save for one really rough outing in Atlanta, Santana has looked like the Johan of old. Bay may be a bust, Perez and Castillo equally so, but Santana really was a great pickup by Omar Minaya.
Yep, definitely. Johan has been as advertised every time he takes the mound for Mets. Injuries happen to everyone you cannot plan for them. Look at the ones this year already.
Why isn’t Duda playing first? I can’t stand some of his lineups recently
What a complete joke of a lineup. Does Collins even give a crap that he’s screwed Santana all year long with these lineups that have yet to earn our ace a win? He should be 4-1 right now, but Collins couldn’t care less about that. I feel bad for Santana who has given this team nothing short of a first class effort whenever he takes the mound from the day he first arrived. It’s insane how everytime Johan pitches, key players are given the day off like it’s a damn holiday.
I don’t much care for it either but it’s not like Ike is doing much at the plate and not surprised Thole is sitting a day game after a night game – even though 4pm is close to a night game.
Not sure why Duda is not in there. Probably has something to do with getting Kirk in there and getting Duda one day’s rest today after being sick.
I just think it’s becoming to commonplace. He rested a 21-year old Tejada when he was on fire in a Johan start after onlt two weeks of the season, and although Tejada is coming around now, he went into a tailspin after that day off.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me why Collins is not starting Valdespin? It’s utterly ridiculous how he’s letting this kid rot on the bench.
Probably because Valdespin didn’t even hit much in the minors. And he’s a LH hitter, and most of the positions he is backing up are manned by LHH hitters (or in Torres’ case a switch hitter who hits better against LH than RH). So when those regulars get a day off, its usually against a LHP…so its the RH bats on the bench that get the start
*meant to say Torres hits better LH (as in against RHP), At least the last couple years…he’s hit better from the left side than the right side
Off Topic: Tom Seaver Bobble Head day today. Nice collectible for those fans attending.
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