Game Time: 7:10pm
Record: 0-2 Era: 6.97 K: 12 BB: 12 WHIP: 1.74
Mets Notes:
- Redding gave himself some breathing room with six solid innings Friday against the Nationals. He wasn’t rewarded with a decision, but the right-hander scattered four hits and two walks on 88 pitches, striking out two and allowing one run. It was reminiscent of his first Mets start in Los Angeles, and Mets manager Jerry Manuel noted that the team’s catchers rated Redding’s previous side sessions the best he had thrown all year. Manuel gave the former Nationals hurler a vote of confidence after the game, the first Redding start his club had won since the Nats’ 7-4 win at Philadelphia last Sept. 1.
- New York (31-26) is 4-2 against Philadelphia this season but trails the first-place Phillies by three games in the NL East.
- Wright went 4 for 5 on Friday night against Washington in the last game started by Tim Redding, who will take the mound in this series’ finale. He allowed one run and six hits in six innings as New York won 3-1 in 10 innings. The veteran right-hander is 5-3 with a 3.29 ERA in 11 starts against the Phillies.
LINEUP
Castillo, 2b
Cora, SS
Beltran, CF
Sheffield, LF
Wright, 3b
Tatis, 1b
Martinez, RF
Santos, C
Redding, P
- Record: 4-5 Era: 6.27 K: 22 BB: 16 WHIP: 1.51
Phillies Notes:
- It looks like Moyer is slowly turning around his season. He allowed just four hits and two runs against the Dodgers on Friday at Dodger Stadium. He has a 3.60 ERA in his last four starts after he had an 8.15 ERA after his first seven starts of the season. That included a three-start stretch in which he went 0-2 with a 13.86 ERA. Moyer didn’t get the win Friday because the Phillies blew a one-run lead in the ninth, but if he keeps pitching like he has recently, the Phillies expect to win a lot of games.
- Players have generally had a tough time hitting homers at Citi Field, New York’s spacious new ballpark, but Utley has three in his last two games there and 15 overall this season.
- Utley has been successful despite a lineup shuffle, being moved back to his usual No. 3 spot Wednesday after batting second the previous two games to help accommodate Rollins’ drop to sixth in the order. Rollins totaled five hits in those contests, but went 0 for 5 after being moved back to the leadoff role in the middle game of this series.
- Philadelphia may need a big effort from its lineup with Jamie Moyer facing New York. Moyer is 0-1 with a 13.50 ERA in two starts versus the Mets this season but is 8-5 with a 3.64 ERA in 22 career starts against them. Moyer is 1-0 with a 2.08 ERA in his last two starts. The 46-year-old left-hander allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings of a 4-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
LINEUP
Rollins, ss
Victorino, cf
Utley, 2b
Howard, 1b
Ibanez, lf
Werth, rf
Feliz, 3b
Coste, C
Moyer, P
- LETS DO THIS!!
PLAY BALL!!!
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16 comments
metsfan4decades
6/11/2009-7:17pm at 7:17 pm (UTC -4)
Come on, Redding – I really, really want to see a win tonight.
Let’s Go Mets!
metsfan4decades
6/11/2009-7:21pm at 7:21 pm (UTC -4)
hahaha – ‘Let’s do this’. Love that graphic.
GravediggerHebner
6/11/2009-7:21pm at 7:21 pm (UTC -4)
Funny pic of Moyer, well done. LGM!
Kingman 26
6/11/2009-7:59pm at 7:59 pm (UTC -4)
Damn, this Castillo guy is pretty good….
Kingman 26
6/11/2009-8:12pm at 8:12 pm (UTC -4)
Geez, where is Gina and everyone else who babbled all winter about how horrible a fielder Ibanez is??
rustyjr
6/11/2009-8:18pm at 8:18 pm (UTC -4)
LOL kong in retrospect we shoulda got him btw there are still a couple of our old guys there – matts blog – did u see his stupid poll on sny before ?
Kingman 26
6/11/2009-9:24pm at 9:24 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, I saw it and it was indeed pretty damn silly!
Gotta say, Feliciano is impressing the hell out of me this year.
Is Wright’s BA going to get up to .370 or .380? Maybe he should be batting 2nd….but then there would be no one to protect Shef….those legs of his—if Shef was a horse, they would shoot him.
Kingman 26
6/11/2009-10:00pm at 10:00 pm (UTC -4)
Should bring in KRod here….
Kingman 26
6/11/2009-10:01pm at 10:01 pm (UTC -4)
Ugh!!! I am sitting here working on a piece defending Jerry and damn, he leaves this clown in when he has KRod!!!!
gland
6/11/2009-10:29pm at 10:29 pm (UTC -4)
Do we know if KRod was available?
Kingman 26
6/11/2009-10:48pm at 10:48 pm (UTC -4)
He was in the pen seemingly available, and by Jerry’s comments, I think he was. Stokes surely was.
Takahashi was mediocre in Japan, and had faced 28 LH batters this year—and allowed 11 hits and 3 walks!
Joe R
6/11/2009-10:32pm at 10:32 pm (UTC -4)
yes he was. this is rough to say the least. 4 out. yes i am impressed yes we played with heart but we just dont have the offense to win plain and simple. we cant score past the 5th inning. damn. help omar please dont let this get out of control. this tea, is battling dont throw away this year on us!!
gland
6/11/2009-10:36pm at 10:36 pm (UTC -4)
I thought I heard Gary say something at the end of the broadcast that Jerry didn’t have KRod available so he stuck with Takahashi. May have heard it wrong.
And an offense with two legitimate, every day players (Wright/Beltran) can only do so much. The other 6 spots in the lineup are being occupied with 4th outfielders and bench players. I don’t care when Delgado and Reyes are coming back, this team needs another bat.
Joe R
6/11/2009-10:37pm at 10:37 pm (UTC -4)
wow manuel is bad…cant explain why he didnt use KROD!!!! wasnt going to use him that way! Wow Wow Wow…you have to play for the inning. we needed this game. how does he know we wouldnt have won it in the bottom half!!
gland
6/11/2009-10:39pm at 10:39 pm (UTC -4)
well now he’ll be available for the weekend…
Kingman 26
6/11/2009-10:49pm at 10:49 pm (UTC -4)
I like Jerry more than most, but this is up there with letting Feliciano pitch to Diaz. Stokes would have been a better choice in that spot.