The Mets go for the series victory against the Brewers today as they look to build off of yesterday’s performance. The Mets bats broke out to score 12 runs including 3 hits from Davis making his return from Las Vegas and Kirk going 4-5 at the plate. Today Shaun Marcum gets the start for the Amazin’s as he takes on Yovani Gallardo.
Shaun Marcum is 1-9 over 73.1 innings while posting a 5.03 ERA as he goes into the home of his former team. He has now pitched 14.0 innings in his last two stars allowing only 3 ER and striking out 4 in the process. He has made one start against the Brewers where he allowed 6 hits and 4 ER and the following Brewers have stats against him:
Bentancourt 2-17, 2B, 3B
Francisco 2-6, 2B
A. Ramirez 0-5
The Mets bats look to continue what they started yesterday against Yovani Gallardo who is 6-8 with a 4.78 ERA over 101.2 innings of work this year. Yovani had a stretch of games in June where he didn’t allow any earned runs over 21 innings (3 games) but since then in his last two starts, has allowed 3 earned, 5 total over 4 and then 8 earned over 3. Last year he took the loss against the Mets allowing 2 ER over 6 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against Gallardo:
Wright 3-16, HR
Byrd 3-12
Buck 0-8
Davis 0-7
Murphy 3-9, 2B
Lets Go Mets!
