Last night’s game was rained out as the tri-state area turned into the Atlantic Ocean East…or at least Newark did. Anyway today’s pitching matchup is the same as yesterday’s and yesterday’s game will be made up as a single admission doubleheader on September 14th.
The Marlins come back to Citi Field tonight as the Mets look for vengeance after being swept by the Marlins last weekend. There’s not a lot of certainty in this series thanks to Mother Nature. Last night’s game was rained out and the current plan is to have Harvey still start to night, move Marcum tomorrow and have Niese go on Sunday. It’s also supposed to rain today, and tonight, and early tomorrow, so we’ll see what happens with the schedule. Anyway Harvey goes up against a familiar foe in Jose Fernandez.
Matt Harvey is 5-0 over 12 starts and a 2.17 ERA while pitching 83.0 innings with 89 strikeouts. His last outing was quite human as he allowed 10 hits and 4 ER over 5.0 innings against the Marlins, so he is searching for revenge tonight. The Marlins have the following numbers against Harvey:
Pierre 5-11
Dobbs 1-5, 2B
Brantly 2-5
Polanco 0-4
Coghlan 3-3, 2B
Fernandez 0-2
Jose Fernandez is 3-3 with a 3.34 ERA over 11 games and 59.1 innings of work in his rookie season so far. Tonight will be his 4th start of the season against the Mets, and we are barely out of the first week of June. Seriously this guy pitches against the Mets 33% of the time. So far against the Mets this year he has pitched 16.0 innings with a 1.69 ERA. The Mets have the following numbers against Jose:
Duda 1-6
Murphy 1-7
Davis 0-4
Buck 1-5, HR
Wright 0-5
OMARS COMING. 2-3 (You’ll have to excuse me, The Wire is one of my favorite pieces of all media of all time)
Lets Go Mets!
