The Mets play game two of their six game road trip hoping to bounce back on the winning track as they take on the Brewers again. For the Mets this was their mystery day. For a while (I think until Thursday) it was unclear who was going to start today, but the Mets will be giving Fernando Nieve a chance to start today (meaning Manual, won't be able to use him from the pen, like he does about 90% of the time). Nieve is looking foward to this opportunity tonight and hopefully (for us) he will regain his form as a starter from last year before he got injured. Anyway on the season this year he is 1-2 with a 5.09 ERA and last season he was 3-3 with a 2.95 ERA (during which he made 7 starts). Nieve did start one game agianst the Breweres last season and it was pretty ugly as he allowed 11 hits and (by a divine miracle only) 3 ER over 3 innings. The Brewers have these numbers against Fernando:
Weeks 0-3
Braun 1-2
Parra (1-3, 3.54) gets the start for the Brew Crew tonight, who are looking to get the rare two home wins a row. The Brewers are also in a similar position regarding starting tonight as this will be Parra's second start of the season. His first one was May 18th where he pitched 4 innings and allowed only 1 run. The Mets have these numbers on Manny over his career:
Wright 2-7
Barajas 1-3
Pagan 1-2
Lets Go Mets!
