The Mets won yesterday! The Mets won the day before that! The Mets won the day before that as well! That’s right, we are on a three game winning streak folks! Anyway the Mets look to extend their streak to four games tonight as they play the Phillies after scoring runs late yesterday to take the game from the Phils. Tonight Matt Harvey gets the start against Cole Hamels.
Matt Harvey is 2-3 this season with a 2.75 ERA over 6 games and 36 innings with 43 K’s. In his last three starts, he has allowed only 4ER and 9 hits over 19.2 innings and 20 K’s. Since this is Harvey’s 7th start of his career, he has no batting records against the Phillies since he has never played them.
The Mets bats get a familiar foe tonight in Cole Hamels who is 14-6 this year with a 2.99 ERA. After getting off to a torrid start in August (7 innings, 3 IP followed by back to back complete game shutouts), Hamels has cooled off a bit and become human in his last two starts allowing 6 ER over 13.2 innings of work. In 15 innings and two games against the Mets this year, Cole has allowed 6 ER. The Mets have the following numbers against Cole:
Wright 16-46, 3 2B, 3B, 3 HR
Hairston 11-28, 4 2B, 5 HR
Tejada 3-9
Murphy 5-17, 2B, HR
Davis 5-16
Let’s Go Mets!
