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The Game:
The Mets (17-15) begin their three-game series with game one of a doubleheader versus the Reds (14-21) today at Shea Stadium, starting at 1:10 pm.
The Lineup:
- SS Jose Reyes
- 2B Luis Castillo
- 3B David Wright
- CF Carlos Beltran
- RF Ryan Church
- LF Moises Alou
- 1B Carlos Delgado
- C Brian Schneider
- P Johan Santana
The Pitchers:
LHP Johan Santana (3-2, 2.91 ERA) starts for the Mets. Santana earned a no-decision in his last start on May 4 versus the Diamondbacks allowing one run on six hits and five walks while striking out eight over 6.0 IP. He is 0-1 with a 4.38 ERA in two starts at Shea Stadium this season. In two career games, one start versus the Reds, Santana is 0-0 with a 6.14 ERA.
RHP Matt Belisle (1-2, 6.91 ERA) takes the hill for the Reds. In his last start on May 3 versus the Braves, a loss, Belisle allowed two runs on eight hits while striking out two over 5.1 IP. Left-handed batters are hitting .433 against Belisle this season. Belisle is 0-0 with a 3.86 in three career games, two starts versus the Mets.
The Notes:
Carlos Delgado was 6-for-20 (.300) with 1 HR, 2 2B, 4 RBI during the Mets recent roadtrip. He is batting .571 in seven career at-bats versus Belisle.
The Mets are 9-12 versus right-handed starting pitchers this season.
Jeff Keppinger is batting .444 (12-for-27) with RISP, which leads the National League.
Adam Dunn is batting .243 with 4 HR and 10 RBI in 74 career at-bats at Shea Stadium.
How To Catch It:
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santana got a ND in his last start
ridiculous piece by Marty Noble at mets.com (Marty should be up for dope of the year, alongside Francesa)
suggests that to make room for Matt Wise, the Mets will send down Joe Smith
what a dopey idea, and why didn’t Marty make clear that it’s dopey
what’s also dopey is NOT recognizing that Heilman’s utility as a reliever has long passed
send Aaron down and stretch him out - would much rather have him as a starter than Ollie at this point
send Smith down? Smith has been a great help this year especially at coming into jam situations and getting outs
can Matt Wise do that? we don’t know - so we risk weakening the team?
makes no sense
Strange I never thought of that. Wise taking over Heilman’s 8th inning role would be perfect.
Ugh. I hate when my comments get eaten. No idea why either…
anyway, it probably comes down to options, and Smith has them, and the team doesn’t want to lose anyone off the staff to a waiver claim (although I imagine there are some guys many of us would love to see get traded!)
Heilman to AAA for a onth to rework himself as a starter? I am all for it. Could help this year, and if it goes well, a major help for 2009.
Pretty harsh words for long-time Met follower Marty Noble.
Joe Smith is stuck in a numbers game. Noble was only stating the facts. Joe Smith will be optioned to AAA and Matt Wise will be activated.
The Mets can option Smith after the first game and activate Matt Wise to get a fresh arm in the pen. That just the facts.
Smith has options. Sosa should be the odd man out but he doesn’t have options and he is the only reliever that can go 4 innings if needed.
Noble wasn’t “suggesting” that the Mets were going to send Smith down he was stating the FACTS.
Way too harsh on Noble for reporting on what everyone knew would happen a week ago.
Smith deserves to stay but I doubt the Mets would cut Sosa.
Not sure what is dopey about Noble’s reporting. The move itself is very dopey.
Actually Joe Smith going down is the only real option. Wise has been a good reliever till he hit that batter and wasn’t doing that bad in ST. They barely saw him at the beginning of the season so I could see sending down Joe to see what Wise can do. You dont want to let anybody go (DFA) and then find out Wise isnt cutting it. The Heilman thing is just not going to happen. The jacket says he’s a reliever and thats where he’s going to stay until the jacket is replaced or he goes to another team. You have to feel bad for Joe but Wise is someone who can pitch to lefties and righties. Those guys getting on Willie for using relievers for only one batter have to give Wise a chance. I’m sure it will be only for a month to evaluate his effectiveness.
Wise is a fringe pitcher at best.
Smith is pitching good.
There really is no room for wise.
The Wise move would be to make Matt a Zepher.
anyone have directtv? are you getting the early game?
yeah,im watching mets pregame now on sny
No, the game is blacked out.
Fox blacks out the early game. Extra Innings will have the late game.
Interesting. I figured Extra Innings had the same blackout rules as MLB.tv, but it doesn’t look that way. We’ve been getting the 1 p.m. Saturday starts all year, although they cut off once the Fox broadcast starts.
I’m surprised Ramon isn’t catching santana so that schneider can paired with pelfrey in the second game
willie’s planing on using schneider tomorrow
haha nice.
Seriously though, noble has to be the worst official online beat writer for any of the mlb teams. He’s constantly drinking the kool-aid, and always comes up with a new stupid thing to say. Anthony Dicomo is much better
i still dont understand why metsblog.com has losses behind instead of the traditional games behind. at 20-16, the phillies are 1 behind the mets at 17-15.
I agree. LB is a valid and useful way of looking at things down the stretch. It is useless this time of year.
I miss Keppinger. I can remember posting and talking about him back in the day. I really thought he should have been given the job based on what he did in the minors. Not at all surprised that he is hitting well now.
Typical Met. Finally about to get his chance to nail down the everyday job, and he gets hurt in the minors just before a call up. Same thing last year with Lastings.
Anyway, root for Kepp, after this series only though!
On the Joe Smith situation, since the Mets don’t have an off day until the 19th, they could DL Pagan and keep 8 relievers. Pagan is hurt and rest would be good for his shoulder. Give Wise, Sosa and Smith an audition and keep the two best pitchers.
the phriggin’ phillies are scaring me. anyone else?
yea,, they will be a thorn in our A$$ all season
Not at all. If they trade for Rich Harden or a legit starter then yes. If not, then when the dog days come around and they’re trotting out Kendrick, Durbin and Moyer, they’re going to pay the price for standing pat in the off-season.
Then again, we have Willie…
Nope. Their pitching sucks
For some reason I feel like they will choke this year…Pat Burrell, Jayson Werth, Shane Victorino in the OF is not going to cut it…neither is Chris Coste or whoever their catcher is along with Pedro Feliz…and you really think that their starting rotation and especially their bullpen (total fluke so far) is going to keep it up? Cole Hamels and JC Romero are the only pitchers on that team that I would feel comfortable with if I was a phillies fan
anyone just see that??? gary and keith fumbling around with the mics?
Stupid black uniforms.
at least we’re not the FOX game
True enough.
Apparently K&G is pirating the SNYHD feed
Nobody there for a Johan start?!
The “A” team is on the field. Lets see what they can do.
If Willie plans on using subs in the night cap, the Mets are doomed. All starters going in game 1 with johan, mostly bench players backing up pelf? Ugh…
I was thinking the same thing. why not use some subs with the “ace” pitcher and start more regulars with Pelf? unless he plans on starting the regulars in the second game as well.