Daily Archives: May 20, 2006
The Game…
The Mets (25–16) take on the Yankees (23–17) in the second game of a weekend series today at Shea Stadium starting at 1:10 pm EDT…
The Pitchers…
RHP Pedro Martinez (5–0, 3.19 ERA) starts for the Mets … Martinez has struck out 10 batters in each of his last two starts … In two starts against the Yankees last season he allowed three runs over 15 innings with nine strike outs … in 80 at-bats against Martinez, Derek Jeter has 20 hits, including three HR and 21 strike outs, while Alex Rodriguez is batting .280 in 50 at-bats with 15 strike outs…
RHP Mike Mussina (6–1, 2.56 ERA) starts for the Yankees … In 24 at-bats against Mussina, Carlos Beltran is batting .292, while Carlos Delgado is batting just .207 in 82 at-bats, but with four HR… Last season against the Mets, Mussina allowed four earned runs on six hits over six innings…
The Notes…
The Yankees will start Miguel Cairo, Johnny Damon and Melky Cabrera in the outfield, with Kelly Stinnet behind the plate…
The Mets have drawn roughly 130,000 more fans this season, than they did at this point in the season last year…
The Mets bullpen is second in the National League with a 3.42 ERA…
Carlos Delgado is the All-Time RBI leader during Interleague Play with 123…
The Bleachers…
To chat during the game, go to MetsBlog’s Bleachers … or, to access the chat room through IRC, go to server name irc.echo34.com and channel #metsblog…
…enjoy…
In Newsday, David Lennon and Ken Davidoff cite ‘two baseball officials’ as saying that if the Mets hope to acquire Nationals RHP Livan Hernandez from the Nationals, it will cost OF Lastings Milledge…
Lennon and Davidoff go on to quote Minaya and discuss his options for the rotation…
The Mets have called up RHP Anderson Garcia from Triple-A Norfolk to take the place of Jose Lima, who was designated for assignment following last night’s win over the Yankees…
In 31 innings between Double-A and Triple-A, Garcia was 2–1 in 17 relief appearances with a 1.40 ERA while striking out 24 in 32 innings…
