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New York Mets Starting Pitching Options: Niese and Perez

Posted: 19th May 2010 by Dave Doyle in MLB
The Mets lost two of their starting pitchers in Florida, Jon Niese due to a hamstring injury, and Oliver Perez due to being dreadful. Hisanori Takahashi will start in Jon Niese’s place on Friday night, while R.A. Dickey will start in Perez’s place tonight against the Washington Nationals. Takahashi has seemed to relish in the long man role, a la Darren Oliver in 2006 for the Mets, and ...
The Mets got a great start from Johan Santana , as usual, going 7 IP and giving up 2 ER on a homer by Troy Glaus in the third inning. Santana seemed to get stronger as the game went on. Pedro Feliciano took over in the eighth and started the ninth out by giving up a hit to McCann that would eventually be the winning run. The Mets had ...

Mets-Braves: Mets Turn to Johan Santana for Sweep

Posted: 18th May 2010 by Dave Doyle in MLB
New York Mets (19-20) at Atlanta Braves (18-20)  7:10 pm Johan Santana (3-2 3.88) vs Kris Medlen (1-1 2.35) TV : SNY   Radio : WFAN What to Watch : The Mets go for the sweep behind Santana, whose last start was excellent in a 2-1 loss in Florida. He went seven innings and gave up one unearned run. Medlen has been pitching out of the bullpen mostly, only making one start this ...
New York Mets (14-11)  at Cincinnati Reds (12-13) 7:10 p.m. Oliver Perez (0-2 4.35) versus Mike Leake (2-0 3.25) TV: SNY, Radio: WFAN   What To Watch The Mets roll into Cincy for a three-game series this week. Perez starts things off for the Mets. He got into trouble in his last start against the Dodgers and couldn’t make it out of the fourth inning. Jerry Manuel clearly had a quick hook with ...
The Phillies took this one in a laugher as the Mets became one of the many victims of Roy Halladay’s greatness. Halladay was the star of the game throwing a complete game, the 52nd of his career. He only gave up 3 hits and 1 walk against 6 strikeouts. This game was the 17th shutout of Halladay’s 13-year career. Mike Pelfrey got bombed today. It was the first poor start ...

New York Mets’ 2009 Season Disaster Finally Ending

Posted: 3rd October 2009 by Dave Doyle in MLB
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The 2009 version of the New York Mets will finally disappear into oblivion this weekend. And I canÆt wait for them to go away. ThereÆs a chance for the team to wind up losing 94 games this season, the most losses since the Art Howe-era 2003 team that finished with 95 losses. In case youÆre wondering, you can find a complete list of the Mets ...