26
2012
Game Preview & Lineup: Harvey Makes MLB Debut As Mets Begin 4-Game Set With D’Backs
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Starting Lineup
- Ruben Tejada – SS
- Daniel Murphy – 2B
- David Wright – 3B
- Scott Hairston – RF
- Ike Davis – 1B
- Jason Bay – LF
- Andres Torres – CF
- Rob Johnson – C
- Matt Harvey – RHP
The Mets go out west to find themselves, or some wins. Preferably some wins. It would be nice to win again. How rude of me, I forgot to wish you a Happy Matt Harvey day! Today the Mets rookie pitcher makes his first of three West Coast starts to open up his major league career, but more on that later. Harvey goes up against Wade Miley tonight out in Arizona.
Harvey, who we must be careful not to paint as the savior of the team, is coming off of a strong spring training and a mostly strong minor league year. On the season he is 7-5 with a 3.68 ERA over 20 starts for the Bisons. His main weakness this year has been his control, which leads to his walks 3.9 BB/9. Obviously, he has no official AB’s against Major League batters.
The Mets bats will get a look at Wade Miley who is 11-5 over 15 games, 16 starts with a 3.02 ERA over 113.1 innings of work. In the month of July he has pitched 19.1 innings with a 3.72 ERA and is coming off of a strong 7 IP , 1 ER performance. Earlier this year he pitched 6.0 innings against the Mets while allowed 4 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against him:
Davis 0-3
Hairston 1-3, 2B
Murphy 1-3, 2B
Tejada 0-2
Torres 2-3, 2B
Wright 1-1, 2 BB
Let’s Go Mets !
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Looking at Tejada, Murphy & Wright 1-2-3 in the lineup the way they are it’s a shame Tejada doesn’t have the minimum plate appearance to have a qualifying batting average. If he did the Mets would have the NL leaders in batting average at their respective position batting 1-2-3.
.310/BA – SS, Tejada
.305/BA – 2B, Murphy
.340/BA – 3B, Wright
Not that I’m expecting that he’s going to light up the Mets’ world and be Mike Piazza, but it’s about damn time Johnson got another chance after Nickeas has gotten a bazillion chances to do nothing offensively.
I’ll say this for Nickeas at least. Yes he only had 17 hits and was hitting .168/BA but he made the best of them. 8 of his hits were RBI hits and he was hitting .364/BA with RISP.
UFAH!!! 6,7,8,9!!! Has any team EVER won with 4 automatic outs in their lineup? If you really think about it and go on batting average you can lump our number 5 hitter in that too.
Oh good, Bay is back in the starting lineup. I was worried for a moment that the Mets were serious about trying to win a game. I’m glad that misconception was cleared up.
Bay needs to take himself out of games. He knows his play is worthless and an automatic out. He should say give my AB to Valdespin. He is a sparkplug and now with both Mets starters potentially coming up namely Harvey and Wheeler this season Gould still be a lot of fun.