The Kings of New York, fresh off a four game sweep of the Yankees and on a five game winning streak fly down to Miami tonight to face a team that is on a 9 game losing streak while Israel and Honduras come to Citi Field to play soccer (as if you haven’t seen that commercial enough in recent days). Anyway the Mets are on an impressive streak when it comes to starting pitching but really could use their offense to step it up (with the exception Wednesday’s game). Tonight Shaun Marcum gets back on the hill as he takes on Jacob Tuner in his 2013 debut.
Shaun Marcum is 0-5 this season over 7 games, 6 starts with a 5.77 ERA over 34.1 innings. In his last start he pitched 7 innings allowing 2 ER while striking out 12 batters. He only made one bad pitch in that game which turned into a 2 run homer. Hopefully this is the start of something special for Shaun who faced the Marlins earlier this year in relief allowing 2 ER over 1.2 innings. The Marlins have the following numbers against Marcum:
Polanco 6-14, 2 2B
Pierre 3-11, 2B
Mathis 1-8
Dobbs 2-5, 2B
Ruggianno 1-4
Turner, making his season debut, went 1-4 last year over 7 starts and 42.2 innings of work while posting a 3.38 ERA. He had one bad start and one good start against the Mets last season. First he went 5 innings allowing 6 runs, 3 earned and then two starts later allowed only one run over 7.2 innings (#Mets). He is 3-4 over 10 starts with a 4.47 ERA this year in AAA. The Mets have the following numbers against Turner:
Tejada 1-7, 2B
Davis 1-6
Murphy 1-5
Wright 0-5
Duda 1-4
Baxter 1-1
Valdespin 1-1, 2B
Lets Go Mets!
