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The Game:
The Mets (12-11) look to take the rubber-game of their three-game series against the Braves (12-12) today at Shea Stadium, starting at 1:10 pm EST.
The Lineup:
- SS Jose Reyes
- 2B Luis Castillo
- 3B David Wright
- CF Carlos Beltran
- RF Ryan Church
- 1B Carlos Delgado
- C Raul Casanova
- LF Endy Chavez
- RH Nelson Figueroa
The Pitchers:
RHP Nelson Figueroa (1-1, 4.05 ERA) toes the rubber for the Mets. Figueroa earned a loss in his last start on April 22 versus the Cubs, allowing three runs on hits and five walks while striking out two over five innings pitched. In seven games, two starts versus the Braves in his career, Figueroa is 1-0 with a 3.65 ERA. During Figueroa’s first 45 pitches of the game opponents are 4-for-48 (.083).
RHP John Smoltz (3-1, 0.78 ERA) starts for the Braves. Smoltz’s first loss of the season in his last start on April 22 versus the Nationals, surrendering one run on five hits, while striking out 10 over seven innings pitched. He also struck out his 3,000th career batter in his start versus the Nationals. In 61 career appearances, 41 starts, he is 18-14 with a 3.37 ERA versus the Mets.
The Notes:
Chipper Jones (back spasms) & Yunel Escobar (cracked fingernail) are out of the Braves lineup today.
Carlos Delgado is 12-for-42 (.286) with 4 HR and 12 RBI in his career versus Smoltz.
The Braves are second in the National League with a .283 batting average.
Mark Teixeira is batting .333 (10-for-30) with 1 HR and 7 RBI in his last seven games.
Duaner Sanchez has allowed two in hits over 6.2 IP in his seven appearances since returning to the team on April 15.
For more insight on the Braves, check out Blogger Beat.
How To Catch It:
Today’s game can be seen locally on CW11 and heard locally on WFAN.
The Bleachers:
For a live chat, head over to The Hot Foot Bleachers.
…enjoy, and as always, Let’s Go Mets…
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whenour bullpen is on its dangerous!
Wow Imagine how far Delgado’s home runs would have gone if he wasn’t finished. Hmm…
cousin i hoped hed break out of this lets hope he has momentum now i was at the brewers game 2 saturdays ago and he almost homered
btw anyone know what john stearns is up to these days??
He’s managing the AAA team 4 the Nats.
id love him to be the mets manager someday -he always had fire and no im not knocking willie i stand and fall by my manager
Glad to see the idiots and whiners were at a minimum today. If Wagner can bring this home in the 9th, Mets took 2 of 3 against the Braves with Smoltz and Hudson on the mound (and no Santana).
At least there will be no idiotic “Fire Willie” comments for another day.
yeah wheres fmm and gipper today lol to quote the awol points guy u get 5000 pointscali
there goes the no hitter
mets1717 i requested u as a friend on myspace my handle is eddieshortarms
Got it man. I get the name now….Nice!
lol theres a long funny story behind it
good for delgado. glad he didn’t come out the curtain call.
he shouldn’t feel bad though. mets fans booed wright in april of last year and reyes at the end of the year. they even booed santana in his first shea start. pathetic.
i agree zen i just don’t want to see this turning uglier than it has
that’s true.
why did they bring in wagner? let him rest for a day - non save situation
being up 3 runs isn’t a save situation?
it was a save situation
mets win 3rd series in a row against the braves and phils :)
As long as the Mets take care of business against the Phils and Braves, I am really not worried. I could care less about where the Fish are right now. They will be a 75 win team max by the end of the season with their shoddy starting pitching.
If Mets take care of business against the Suckos and take at least 2 of 3, then the Mets end up 15-12. Great - certainly not but with an NL East where every team has major issues it is just fine.
agreed cali
and i be takin care of buisness every day taking care of buisness everyway!!
Put that in your freakin books Larry!
Finally a TOTAL game by the Mets. Nice pitching, run support, and great defense. Best game of the season thus far.
great game…great couple of days
i prefer another one bites the dust by queen shoot em down by twisted sister or aces high by iron maiden
figgy is a keeper
im glad i got him in my fantasy team
The only way I would even give the “Fire Willie” comments any kind of credibility is if this team had gotten out to a start like the Nats or Pirates and be 6 or 7 games below .500 at the end of April.
i agree cali but you know if this was gil or davey the fans would be the same way remember we ran davey out of here in 90
Wheres the 700 angry comments?
Oh wait, the team won.
this team has the weirdest fans. i wouldn’t call them fairweather, since more show up when the team loses to call for omar’s/willie’s head.
rotfl
so we’ve taken 4 of 6 from the phils and just took 2 of 3 from the braves, beating both hudson and smoltz. why are people complaining again? we’re 13-11 without our starting LF without any production (until today–go carlos!) from the 1B position.
DEL-GA-DO!
Curtain call?! The A-Holes who’;ve been turning up at Shea to boo our guys should earn back D-G’s respect.
Go Met’s or Go The F- Home! Start supporting your team even when they stink, even when they fail…they’re our Mets.
Let’s see if this series win doesn’t really start to get us rolling.
Great bounce back, after losing against Wash and then game one and facing Hudson and Smoltz, for them to take 2 of 3 was a really good sign. For a team that’s been called soft a lot, that’s a really good weekend.
As for Delgado, he’s shown warning track power at best this year, and for him to hit two bombs, one the opposite way is a great sign. Good day today