Well last night was, interesting.
The game started off with a beautiful ceremony to recognize the 1986 Mets. Then things went down hill. Syndergaard threw a pitch behind Utley, which is most likely a wild pitch. Under any other circumstance where teams have tension, that would have been a warning to both benches. (No tension, just a mistake, probably not even notable outside of a snide, “Just a bit outside”). However there was an umpire who was inexperienced behind the plate and immediately tossed Syndergaard. I’ve watched a lot of baseball and I’ve never seen such a quick pull of the ejection trigger. Anyway the Dodgers went on to pile up the runs and now the Mets head into the last game against the Dodgers in the regular season tonight.
Bartolo Colon is 4-3 over 10 games and 9 starts with a 55.0 innings with a 3.44 ERA. He is coming off one of his strongest starts of the season after two not so good ones. Last time out he allowed 1 ER over 7.0 innings vs the Nationals. His one start against the Dodgers this year was not so good as he allowed 5 ER over 5 innings. The Dodgers have the following numbers vs Bartolo:
- Crawford 6-36, 2 2B
- Gonzalez 13-28, 2 2B, 3 HR
- Kendrick 3-25
- Utley 10-20, 2 2B, HR
- Turner 1-12
- Puig 0-9
- Grandal 2-8, HR
Clayton Kershaw is Clayton Kershaw. He’s leading the league in ERA, again, for the 5th time in 6 seasons at 1.48 over a 7-1 record and 10 starts with 3 complete game shutouts and 79.0 innings. Currently he’s leading the league in innings (he did that last year too) and is leading the game in complete game shutouts at 3. He lead the league with 3 in that same category all of last season. All three complete game shutouts came in the month of May starting off with the Padres, then two starts later against the Mets and then his last start (also two starts later), the Reds. The Mets have the following numbers against the Mets:
- Wright 3-21, 2B
- Granderson 4-20, 2B
- Walker 1-12
- Cespedes 1-12
- Lagares 1-12
- Rivera 2-8
- Cabrera 2-7
Let’s Go Mets!
