The series comes back to New York tonight! Like every other Mets fan, I’m an incredibly curious as to how the Mets come out tonight in response to Chase Utley literally breaking a member of the team. The league has already suspended Utley for two games, but he’s going to appeal meaning that (at least while I’m writing this at 8:30 in the morning) that Mattingly can still play games with the Mets by playing Utley.
Anyway, the real focus on the game will be Matt Harvey. Harvey was 13-8 in the regular season over 29 starts and 189.1 innings with a 2.71 ERA and 188 K’s. In his last three starts of the season he tossed 17.2 innings, 3 runs, 2 earned while striking out 24 batters. In two starts against the Dodgers this year he allowed 5 ER over 12.0 innings while striking out 13. The Dodgers have the following numbers against Harvey:
- Rollins 5-19, 2 2B, 2 HR
- Utley 6-18, 2B, HR
- Gonzalez 3-11, HR
- Ethier 2-8
- Crawford 1-5
- Grandal 1-5
- Pederson 2-5, HR
- Puig 3-5,2B
The Mets draw Brett Anderson who is 10-9 over 31 games with a 3.69 ERA and 180.1 innings. His last start was a good bounce back one where he allowed 2 ER over 7.2 innings. Before that start he allowed 11 ER over 8.2 innings in his previous two starts. He missed the Mets completely twice in July and although he’s been in the league since 2009 he’s never faced the Mets (which make sense because he was with Oakland from ’09 to ’13). Only three Mets have seen him in a major league game:
- Granderson 5-12, HR
- Cuddyer 1-12
- K Johnson 0-1
Let’s Go Mets!
