Game Time: 7:10pm
El Gordo Record: 7-5 Era: 4.87 K: 63 BB: 41 WHIP: 1.53
Mets Notes:
- Hernandez allowed a walk and four consecutive hits, leading to three runs in the first inning Sunday in Houston. He escaped the inning because one runner was caught stealing and another was thown out at the plate. Then he pitched six scoreless innings, allowing four more base runners. All that led to his second straight victory and renewed faith in his renaissance season. Now he faces one of his former teams, a team he has faced once since the beginning of the 2006 season. Hernandez beat the Diamondbacks in the Metrodome as a member of the Twins June 22 last year, allowing one earned run – three over all – and nine hits in seven innings. He has a 10-6 record in 18 career starts against them, but most of the personnel he faced is gone now. Chad Tracy – four hits, including two home runs in 16 career at-bats – is the onlt D-Backs player with more than eight career at-bats against Hernandez.
LINEUP
Pagan, CF
Castillo, 2B
Wright, 3B
Francoeur, RF
Tatis, LF
Murphy, 1B
Santos, C
Cora, SS
Hernandez, P
- Record: 5-10 Era: 3.76 K: 100 BB: 62 WHIP: 1.49
Diamondbacks Notes:
- Davis recovered nicely from two previous ugly outings in his last start, when he blanked the Pirates through six innings of a 7-0 victory — only his third win in 16 starts since April. He still battled his control, going to full counts on nine batters, but managed to pitch out of trouble against the overanxious Pirates — something that could also work to his advantage against the offensively struggling Mets. The lefty has always had decent stuff and numbers, yet the D-backs have lost 29 of his past 44 starts since the end of May 2008.
LINEUP
Drew, SS
Parra, LF
Upton, RF
Reynolds, 3B
Montero, C
Roberts, 2B
Whitesell, 1B
Young, CF
Davis, P
8 comments
dentulous
7/31/2009-7:18pm at 7:18 pm (UTC -4)
why does Jerry have to change the lineup when it was doing well? Always tinkering like a damn fool. How about just keeping the same damn lineup that won 5 in a row. This guy should not be allowed to come back next season. I mean see what it can do against a LHP before changing it.
Mr North Jersey
7/31/2009-7:31pm at 7:31 pm (UTC -4)
All he did was take sullivan out
dentulous
7/31/2009-7:45pm at 7:45 pm (UTC -4)
he also switched the order.
sabermetrician
7/31/2009-7:59pm at 7:59 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed. Jerry doesn’t believe in playing the hot hand. He overthinks too many situations. I would love to see us go get Bobby V this offseason.
steveo
7/31/2009-9:50pm at 9:50 pm (UTC -4)
Jerry manuel is a crack head for sure barroa to pinch hit for livan I’d rather livan with bases loaded this guy has to f–kin go what happens a gound out 1st pitch
dentulous
7/31/2009-10:44pm at 10:44 pm (UTC -4)
Jerry and his damn matchups. This guy is an overmanaging maniac. We lost plenty of games due to his unecessary meddling. If we lose this one, ill add that to the list. WTF happened to REED??? He has been solid in the pinch hitting role.
I hate Jerry!
whataputz
7/31/2009-9:57pm at 9:57 pm (UTC -4)
Wow that’s as frustrating as it gets. K the first 2 hitters than walk the next 2!
steveo
7/31/2009-11:08pm at 11:08 pm (UTC -4)
Im back to hoping that we loose evergame for the rest of the season we are defanatly back to sucking again but thanks for the week of good baseball omar I hate you.Now back to that loosing thing maybe we can get some 1st rounders to hold on to for like 5 years