Aug
11
2012

Santana Is Back As Mets Look To Solve Kris Medlen And The Braves

An article by Elliot Teichman

Johan Santana was in command and wowed the crowd at MCU Park during his rehab start where he hit 90 MPH on the radar gun.

Starting Lineup

Ruben Tejada, ss
Daniel Murphy, 2b
David Wright, 3b
Ike Davis, 1b
Scott Hairston, rf
Mike Baxter, lf
Andres Torres, cf
Josh Thole, c
Johan Santana, lhp

Game Preview

The Mets and Braves play game two tonight at Citi Field. Last night the Mets just could not get the bats going to score runs against the Braves, and they hope to reverse that as they take on Kris Medlen. Santana will be making his first start coming off of the DL. Last weekend Johan made a rehab start in Brooklyn (see pictures/story here). On the season Johan is 6-7 with a 3.98 ERA over 110.2 innings. His season debut was against the Braves as he shut them down for five innings. His starts after that were a much different story as he allowed 4 ER, 6 total in 1.1 innings in April and 6 ER in 5 innings in July. The Braves have the following numbers against Santana:

McCann 9-35, 2B, 3 HR
Johnson 16-31, 2 2B, 3B, 2 HR
Chipper 9-30, HR
Prado 5-24, 2 2B
Uggla 1-21, HR
Bourn 6-19

The Mets bats look to tee off of Kris Medlen who is 2-1 this season over 40 games, 2 starts while posting an ERA of 2.37. His last two outings have both been starts totaling 10.1 innings and 2 ER. He has pitched 9.1 innings against the Mets this year and has allowed only one earned run. The Mets have the following numbers against Kris:

Wright 1-10
Davis 2-9, HR
Thole 2-6
Cedeno 2-5, 2B
Murphy 1-5
Tejada 1-4, 2B
Hairston 1-3, 2B

Let’s Go Mets!

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11 Comments + Add Comment

Metsie August 11, 2012 at 10:16 pm

Sorry but I hate to break it to everyone….
Santana is not back!
- Joey D. August 11, 2012 at 10:19 pm
  
  Hi Metsie,
  
  Sorry to have to break this to you…. but we knew that about two hours and forty five minutes before you wrote to us LOL.
  
  Would love to see what happened to the SNY ratings about that time.
  - Metsie August 11, 2012 at 11:13 pm
    
    LOL when I first tuned in after dinner it was 4-0 and then I went to check what was on the rest of the night to DVR so I could watch it and in that time the score changed to 9-0 and I said well that settles that then!
    - Des August 11, 2012 at 11:53 pm
      
      Metsie — I watched a Netflix movie when the game turned hopeless. At least when the movie was over, I could return to MMO, bang out of few comments, and sleep at night.
      - Metsie August 12, 2012 at 11:53 am
        
        Thankfully I have a media server in my house with a couple hundred movies and quite a few TV shows so I don’t have to subscribe to netflix.
        
        But if every game the rest of the way is going to be like that one I will soon run out of content to watch instead!
- Even Flow August 11, 2012 at 10:41 pm
  
  No shit, Metsie. After tonight, I’m starting to think that it’s over for him and he’s going down the David Cone route if you know what I mean.
  - Metsie August 11, 2012 at 11:18 pm
    
    Nah I wouldn’t go that far yet.
    Done for this season maybe but thats one more thing I have against this current FO they simply do not give these guys coming back from rehab enough time down in the Minors to get sorted out.It’s like play a game or two and then come back.
    
    Bay should still be down there from the concussion incident until he hit like wildfire down there.
    Santana should have pitched 3-4 games in AAA before he was brought up to start.
    
    What exactly was the rush? If they were so concerned about the slide continuing they should have done something about it a week ago before the deadline hit and then if Santana did come back to his old self it would be towards somthing good.
    
    I just don’t get what this FO is thinking at all!
    - Even Flow August 11, 2012 at 11:24 pm
      
      They’re (Front office) lost. Completely lost.
      
      We’ve done this for years. Players who have either done nothing here or are decent but need more significant time to get their shit together get brought back up so soon to save something that cannot be saved. In this case…why send back Santana when the Mets are sinking into deeper shit? One start against an overmatched NYPL team will not cut it.
      - Metsie August 11, 2012 at 11:38 pm
        
        It’s almost as they are simply making moves to look like they are doing something despite the fact they really aren’t doing anything just rushing headlong into the next losing streak!
    - Joey D. August 12, 2012 at 1:44 am
      
      “I just don’t get what this FO is thinking at all!”
      
      Hi Metsie,
      
      That is disappointing to hear for I thought you were one of those who was most clear on that subject.
      - Metsie August 12, 2012 at 11:52 am
        
        Oh I’m pretty clear…But if I clarify for others we get 40 posts of what do you mean he doesn’t want to win bull!

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