The Mets and Pirates play game two tonight as the Mets look to make it three in a row and look to get back at .500 tonight. Last night was a typical night for the Mets offense when they are on as they slapped a bunch of hits, moved runners over, and put runs on the board. As much as I would love to see this team knock some out of the park, the team right now is playing to its strengths with small ball with all of the heavier hitters out of the lineup. The offense looks to keep going tonight against James McDonald, and R.A. Dickey looks to give the Mets a strong performance like Gee was able to do last night.
Dickey is 3-6 on the season with a 4.04 ERA. In his last four starts he has pitched 24.1 innings (remember one start was only 2.2 innings, which is skewing the data) where he allowed only 5 ER thus posting an ERA of 1.85. His last start was one of the best of the season as he went 8.0 innings allowing only 1 ER and the start before that he posted 7.2 innings against the Pirates allowing only 3 ER. The Bucs have the following numbers on Robert Allen:
Overbay 1-10
McCutchen 2-6
Jones 2-7
Tabata 1-5, 2B
Cedeno 1-6
The Mets batters will get another look at James McDonald tonight who is 3-4 with a 4.97 ERA. He was quite good the last time he faced the Mets holding the Amazins to one run over 6 innings of work as the Pirates went on to win 5-1. James will be looking to bounce back from his last start where he allowed 3 ER in 4 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers on him:
Beltran 1-9
Pagan 4-9, 2 2B
Reyes 2-6, 2B
Bay 1-3
Murphy 2-3
Let's Go Mets!
