Yesterday the Mets were just on every cylinder. The Mets crushed the Athletics, and the league leading ERA Scott Kazmir. They did it with power and pitching. In my opinion, it was the opening blow by Granderson that was the key for the Mets but as the game went on, Chris Young hit two homers and d’Arnaud in his return to the majors smacked a three run jack. On the mound, Colon allowed only one earned run in the first inning and then shut down his former team over 8.0 innings including a base hit. Today Brad Mills gets the start for the Athletics as he goes up against Zack Wheeler.
Wheeler is 3-7 this year over 15 starts and 87.0 innings with a 3.93 ERA. He is coming off of the best start of his career with a complete game shutout only walking one batter and striking out 8. Being a young pitcher, it makes sense that he has never faced the Athletics or anyone on the Athletics roster in a major league game.
The Mets bats look to make it three games in a row scoring at least 10 runs tonight against Brad Mills who is making his second start start of the year. In his first start he allowed 3 runs, 2 earned over 4.0 innings of work. He has had a strong minor league season in 14 games, 12 starts over 75.0 innings with a 1.56 ERA. The only Met who has seen him in a major league game is Granderson who is 0-1.
Lets Go Mets!
