Standings 2006

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lifted from the Big O posting in another thread:

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York Nine	4	1	.800	--	4-1	0-0	30	21	W3	4-1
Mylanta	3	4	.429	2	0-0	3-4	53	53	L2	3-4
Washing-town	2	4	.333	2.5	0-0	2-4	32	39	L1	2-4
Flori-duh	1	4	.200	3	0-0	1-4	21	21	L3	1-4
Philadullphia	1	5	.167	3.5	1-5	0-0	21	35	L1	1-5

Observations
* The pythagorean gods smile not well on the Fish.
* Atlanta's RC/RA. Yikes on both counts.
* We're the only ones to play in the division so far, and we've already done serious damage.

Monday's games
N.Y. Mets 3, Washington 2
(WP: Glavine 1-0; LP: Hernandez 0-1)
St. Louis 13, Philadelphia 5
(WP: Carpenter 1-0; LP: Lieber 0-1)
Atlanta 11, L.A. Dodgers 10
(WP: Villarreal 1-0; LP: Lowe 0-1)
Houston 1, Florida 0
(WP: Oswalt 1-0; LP: Johnson 0-1)

Tuesday's games
Florida 11, Houston 2
(WP: Mitre 1-0; LP: Pettitte 0-1)
L.A. Dodgers 5, Atlanta 4
(WP: Penny 1-0; LP: Smoltz 0-1)

Wednesday's games
St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 3
(WP: Thompson 1-0; LP: Gordon 0-1)
Washington 9, N.Y. Mets 5
(WP: Cordero 1-0; LP: Julio 0-1
Houston 6, Florida 5
(WP: Rodriguez 1-0; LP: Moehler 0-1)
Atlanta 9, L.A. Dodgers 8
(WP: Villarreal 2-0; LP: Osoria 0-1)

Thursday's games
St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 2
(WP: Marquis 1-0; LP: Lidle 0-1)
San Francisco 6, Atlanta 4
(WP: Fassero 1-0; LP: Sosa 0-1)
N.Y. Mets 10, Washington 5
(WP: P. Martinez 1-0; LP: Ortiz 0-1)

Friday's games
L.A. Dodgers 5, Philadelphia 3
(WP: Tomko 1-0; LP: Floyd (0-1)
N.Y. Mets 9, Florida 3
(WP: Trachsel 1-0; LP: Vargas 0-1
Houston 6, Washington 1
(WP: Backe 1-0; LP: Armas 0-1)
Atlanta 14, San Francisco 6
(WP: Remlinger 1-0; LP: Walker 0-1)

Saturday's games
Florida at N.Y. Mets, ppd., rain
L.A. Dodgers at Philadelphia, ppd., rain
San Francisco 12, Atlanta 6
(WP: Wright 1-0; LP: Hudson 0-1)
Washington 12, Houston 8
(WP: Hernandez 1-1; LP: Qualls 0-1)

Sunday's games
Philadelphia 6, L.A. Dodgers 3
(WP: Gordon 1-1; LP: Hamulack 0-1)
N.Y. Mets 3, Florida 2
(WP: Wagner 1-0; LP: C. Martinez 0-1)
Houston 7, Washington 3
(WP: Pettitte 1-1; LP: Drese 0-1)
San Francisco 6, Atlanta 5
(WP: Worrell 1-0; LP: Reitsma 0-1)
L.A. Dodgers 6, Philadelphia 2
(WP: Penny 2-0; LP: Lieber 0-2)

Today's games
Washington (Patterson 0-0) at Houston (Rodriguez 1-0)
Philadelphia (Myers 0-0) at Atlanta (Thomson 0-0)

Tuesday's games
N.Y. Mets (Bannister 0-0) at Washington (Ortiz 0-1)
San Diego (Williams 0-0) at Florida (Mitre 1-0)

Wednesday's games
San Diego (Young 0-0) at Florida (Moehler 0-1)
N.Y. Mets (P. Martinez 1-0) at Washington (Armas 0-1)
Philadelphia (Lidle 0-1) at Atlanta (Sosa 0-1)

Thursday's games
N.Y. Mets (Zambrano 0-0) at Washington (Hernandez 1-1)
San Diego (Brazelton 0-1) at Florida (Vargas 0-1)
Philadelphia (Floyd 0-1) at Atlanta (Hudson 0-1)

Next series
Milwaukee (Capuano 1-0, Sheets 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Glavine 1-0, TBA)
San Diego (Peavy, Williams) at Atlanta (Smoltz, Thomson)
Washington (Drese, Ortiz) at Florida (Willis, Mitre)
Philadelphia (TBA, Myers) at Colorado (TBA, Cook)

All projected Mets starters courtesy of Marty Noble at MLB.com. I might rather have Pedro go against Livan, even though it would mean an extra day's rest.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'll add my favorite standings stat --- net games back:

New York --
Atlanta 2.0
Washington 3.0
Florida 4.5
Philadelphia 6.5

[Guest sharpie]

Philly has played 6 games at home and won only one of them.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And the Mets' magic number is 155.

[Theoldmole]

Bizarre run numbers for the Braves.

[The Big O]

NL East Head-to-head
Squadron	NY	PHI	WAS	FLA	ATL	Tot
Mets		0-0	5-1	2-0	0-0	7-1
Phils	0-0		0-0	0-0	2-1	2-1
Nats	1-5	0-0		2-1	0-0	3-6
Fish	0-2	0-0	1-2		0-0	1-4
Braves	0-0	1-2	0-0	0-0		1-2

Through the first two weeks.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Sunday morning, April 16:

Mets in first place.
Yankees in last place.

[The Big O]

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York	9	2	.818	--	6-2	3-0	68	41	W1	8-2
Lack of Larrytown	6	7	.462	4	3-3	3-4	79	78	L1	4-6
Philly	5	7	.417	4.5	1-5	4-2	55	69	W1	5-5
Capital City	4	9	.308	6	0-3	4-6	54	78	W2	3-7
Miami	3	8	.273	6	2-4	1-4	46	51	L2	3-7

Observations
* Perfect on the road? Say it ain't sample size.
* The top 3 teams in the East maintained or improved from last week (Philly a salty 4-2); the bottom two didn't.
* Every team in the AL East is .500 or above, and all but 1 team in the NL Central is; the AL West is the memorial 2005 NL West divison, with the top team at .500 and the rest below.
* Unsurprisingly, the Mets' runs allowed number is lowest in the majors. Nipping on the heels: Detroit (!) 47, St. Lou 48, Bosox 49.
* Atlanta no longer leading the RS/RAs, overtaken in runs scored by 1 by that team; a minor implosion released a deluge of runs in Pittsburgh (90), with KC (82), the Nats (tied @ 78) and the D-Rays (77) in the mix.
* With an RS minus RA of 27, the Mets actually fell behind that team by 1 in the good differential; those schmucks are 500, though. The Tigers (18), Rox (15), St. Louis (14), Astros (14) follow. Poor poor K.C. (37) outdoes the field in the negative differential, with the Nats (24) and Bucs (21) among the other strugglers.

Monday's games
Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 3
WP: Villarreal (3-0); LP: Franklin (0-1); Sv: Reitsma (3)
Houston 5, Washington 4
WP: Qualls (1-1); LP: Stanton (0-1)

Tuesday's games
N.Y. Mets 7, Washington 1
WP: Bannister (1-0); LP: Ortiz (0-2)
San Diego 9, FLorida 3
WP: Williams (1-0); LP: Mitre (1-1)

Wednesday's games
San Diego 7, Florida 2
WP: Young (1-0); LP: Moehler (0-2)
N.Y. Mets 3, Washington 1
WP: Martinez (2-0); LP: Armas (0-2); Sv: Wagner (2)
Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 5
WP: Lidle (1-1); LP: Sosa (0-2); Sv: Gordon (1)

Thursday's games
N.Y. Mets 13, Washington 4
WP: Zambrano (1-0); LP: Hernandez (1-2)
Florida 9, San Diego 2
WP: Vargas (1-1); Brazleton (0-2)
Philadelphia 7, Atlanta 6
WP: Floyd (1-1); LP: Davies (0-1); Sv: Gordon (2)

Friday's games
N.Y. Mets 4, Milwaukee 3
WP: Glavine (2-0); LP: Capuano (1-2); Sv: Wagner (3)
Atlanta 5, San Diego 4
WP: Villarreal (4-0); LP: Lindebrink (0-1); Sv: Reitsma (4)
Florida 5, Washington 3
WP: Willis (1-0); LP: Drese (0-2); Sv: Borowski (1)
Philadelphia 10, Colorado 8
WP: Madson (1-0); LP: Day (1-1)

Saturday's games
Milwaukee 8, N.Y. Mets 2
WP: Ohka (1-1); LP: Trachsel (1-1)
Washington 2, Florida 1
WP: Patterson (1-0); LP: Olsen (0-1); Sv: Cordero (1)
Atlanta 2, San Diego 0
WP: Smoltz (1-1); LP: Peavy (1-2)
Colorado 10, Philadelphia 6
WP: King (1-1); LP: Lieber (0-3)

Sunday's games
San Diego 4, Atlanta 3
WP: Linebrink (1-1); LP: Remlinger (1-1); Sv: Hoffman (1)
Washington at Florida
WP: Majewski (1-0); LP: Herges (0-1); Sv: Cordero (2)
N.Y. Mets 9, Milwaukee 3
WP: Bannister (2-0); LP: Sheets (0-1)
Philadelphia 1, Colorado 0
WP: Myers (1-0); LP: Cook (1-2); SV: Gordon (4)

Next series
Florida (Moehler, Vargas, Willis) at Cincinnati (Claussen, Milton, Harang)
Atlanta (Sosa, Davies, Hudson) at N.Y. Mets (Martinez, Zambrano, Glavine)
Washington (Armas, Hernandez, Traber) at Philadelphia (Lidle, Floyd, Madson)

Rotation watch
Pitcher	W	L	ND	IP	QS	WHIP	ERA
Glavine, Tom	2	0	1	18.0	3	1.28	1.50
Bannister, Brian	2	0	1	18.0	2	1.11	2.50
Martinez, Pedro	2	0	0	13.0	1	1.00	3.46
Trachsel, Steve	1	1	0	11.0	1	1.27	4.09
Zambrano, Victor	1	0	0	5.0	0	2.00	5.40

[The Big O]

NL East Head-to-head
Squadron	NY	PHI	WAS	FLA	ATL	Tot
Mets		0-0	5-1	2-0	1-2	8-3
Phils	0-0		1-2	1-1	2-1	4-4
Nats	1-5	2-1		2-1	1-1	6-8
Fish	0-2	1-1	1-2		0-0	2-5
Braves	2-1	1-2	1-1	0-0		4-4

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York	12	6	.667	--	7-4	5-2	94	65	L1	5-5
Lack of Larrytown	9	9	.500	3	3-3	6-6	97	92	W1	5-5
Philly	7	10	.412	4.5	3-8	4-2	76	101	W1	6-4
Capital City	7	11	.389	5	1-4	6-7	88	98	L1	5-5
Miami	5	11	.313	6	2-4	3-7	73	82	L1	4-6

Observations
* The NL East averages the lowest runs scored (83.6) and runs allowed (87.6) in beisbol. The AL East (101.2 / 96.4) averages the highest.
* Mets still own the fewest runs allowed in baseball.
* Last week was the 'worst' of the season so far, at 3-4. Nobody else in the N.L.E. went better than 1 game over .500 (3-2), however.
* Mets own 3rd in RS - RA difference at 29, behind Chisox (34) and the MFY (35).
* Philly is nearly the worst in the negative differential (25), with the Pirates (27) and KC (44!) outdoing them.

Monday's games
Cincinnati 9, Florida 1
N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 3

Tuesday's games
Washington 10, Philadelphia 3
Florida 12, Cincinnati 6
Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 1

Wednesday's games
Cincinnati 9, Florida 8
Atlanta 2, N.Y. Mets 1
Philadelphia 7, Washington 6

Thursday's games
Washington 10, Philadelphia 4
N.Y. Mets 7, San Diego 2

Friday's games
Washington 7, Atlanta 3
Florida 4, Philadelphia 3
San Diego 2, N.Y. Mets 1

Saturday's games
Atlanta at Washington, ppd.
Florida at Philadelphia, ppd.
N.Y. Mets 8, San Diego 1

Sunday's games
Philadelphia 4, Florida 2
San Diego 7, N.Y. Mets 4
Atlanta 3, Washington 1

Next series
N.Y. Mets [Glavine (2-1, 1.38), Trachsel (1-1, 3.71), Bannister (2-0, 2.35)] at San Francisco (10-8) [Matt Cain (0-2, 6.75), Jamey Wright (2-0, 2.91), Jason Schmidt (0-2, 5.33)]

Florida (Vargas, Willis, Olsen) at Chicago Cubs (10-7) (Zambrano, Marshall, Guzman)

Cincinnati (12-7) (Ramirez, Williams, Arroyo) at Washington (Hernandez, Traber, Patterson)

Atlanta (Davies, Hudson, Sosa) at Milwaukee (9-10) (Capuano, Ohka, Sheets)

Colorado (10-8) (Asencio, Jennings, Francis) at Philadelphia (Floyd, Madson, Lieber)

[Centerfield]

At 14-7, the Mets have opened up a 4.5 game lead in the East. Good stuff.

While they no longer own the best record in baseball, they are tied for 3rd along with the defending Champs and St. Louis. Ahead of them are the Astros (no surprise) and the Reds (surprise!). What gives? Is Cincy for real?

[Gwreck]

Centerfield wrote: What gives? Is Cincy for real?

No, I don't think so.
Their starting pitching just isn't that good, even if Arroyo is way outperforming his potential.

[nymr83]

They can score though, the bullpen is solid enough, and they get to beat up on Pittsburgh and maybe the Cubs decimated team. They also play Houston and St. Louis alot so they should get handed their asses plenty of times.

[Guest Edgy DC]

There's been a lot of troubling stuff, but I've seen worse west-coast swings.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Keep in mind that the Reds are coming off a sweep of the Nationals --- unowned and hapless --- capped by a one-hitter featuring eight innings from Bronson Arroyo. No disrespect to Braidless Bronson, but the Nats helped the Mets look pretty good also.

[Willets Point]

...and have 12 more games to help make the Mets look good.

[The Big O]

NL East Head-to-head
Squadron	NY	PHI	WAS	FLA	ATL	Tot
Mets		0-0	5-1	2-0	3-3	10-4
Phils	0-0		1-2	1-1	2-1	4-4
Nats	1-5	2-1		2-1	1-1	6-8
Fish	0-2	1-1	1-2		0-0	2-5
Braves	3-3	1-2	1-1	0-0		5-6

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York	16	8	.667	--	7-4	9-4	120	89	L1	6-4
The South of Francoeur	10	14	.417	6	4-5	6-9	115	115	W1	4-6
Philly	10	14	.417	6	5-10	5-4	108	131	W1	4-6
Capital City	8	17	.320	8.5	1-7	7-10	108	133	L2	3-7
Miami	6	16	.273	9	2-7	4-9	94	110	L3	3-7

Observations
* We're holding at .667. Same winning percentage as last week at this time, due to our 4-2 over last week. On the road. In the Pacific time zone. And in Georgia. Yeah.
* 3 of our 5 divisional opponents had 1-win weeks (ATL 1-5, WAS 1-6, FLA 1-5). Sucks to be them.
* The NL East averages the lowest runs scored (109) and runs allowed (115.6) in beisbol. The AL East (130.6 / 129) averages the highest.
* Mets have allowed 2nd fewest total runs in baseball. (Detroit? What?)
* Mets increased their RS - RA difference to 31, putting us 5th behind MFY (53), Detroit (50), Chisox (44) and Cards (32).
* The AL Central is hella stratified -- KC is at -56, Minny at -51. We face the NL negative leader in the Bucs (-37) next.
* Badness: Pedro and Glavine miss the Braves this weekend. Ulp.

Monday's games
Chicago 6, Florida 3
Cincinnati 4, Washington 2
Philadelphia 6, Colorado 5
Milwaukee 3, Atlanta 2
San Francisco 6, Mets 2

Tuesday's games
Cincinnati 6, Washington 5
Colorado 7, Philadelphia 6
Milwaukee 4, Atlanta 2
Chicago 3, Florida 1
Mets 4, San Francisco 1

Wednesday's games
Milwaukee 5, Atlanta 4
Cincinnati 5, Washington 0
Florida 7, Chicago 5
Mets 9, San Francisco 7
Philadelphia 9, Colorado 5

Thursday's games
Colorado 6, Philadelphia 3
St. Louis 6, Washington 2

Friday's games
Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 1
Mets 5, Atlanta 2
Colorado 3, Florida 2
Washington 8, St. Louis 3

Saturday's games
St. Louis 2, Washington 1
Colorado 8, Florida 7
Mets 1, Atlanta 0
Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2

Sunday's games
Atlanta 8, N.Y. Mets 5
Colorado 3, Florida 1
Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 1
St. Louis 9, Washington 2

Next series
Washington 8-17 [(Ortiz 0-3, 6.75; O'Connor 0-1, 0.00)] at New York 16-8 [(Zambrano 1-2, 9.64; Maine 0-0, 0.00)]
Pittsburgh 7-19 [(Snell 1-2, 5.79; Maholm 1-3, 5.86)] at New York 16-8 [(Martinez 5-0, 2.94; Glavine 3-2, 2.29)]

Colorado 15-10 (Jennings, Cook) at Atlanta (Hudson, Sosa)
Atlanta (Smoltz, Thomson) at Philadelphia (Myers, Lidle)

Philadelphia (Madson, Lieber) at Florida (Willis, Olsen)
Atlanta (Smoltz, Thomson) at Philadelphia (Myers, Lidle)

Philadelphia (Madson, Lieber) at Florida (Willis, Olsen)
Florida (Moehler, Vargas) at Washington (Armas, Hernandez)

Washington (Oritz, O'Connor) at New York (Zambrano, Maine)
Florida (Moehler, Vargas) at Washington (Armas, Hernandez)

[Willets Point]

After the Mets historic 10-2 start they do their best 2005 Mets impression and go .500 in their next 12 games.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The magic number this morning is 130.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The magic number prior to today's action is 129.

[Elster88]

Dangerous game that you're playing Yancy. And that statement is coming from a decidedly non-supserstitious person.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I guess I'm even less superstitious than you are.

Mets win yesterday, but the Phillies did too. Prior to Sunday's action, the magic number is 128.

[The Big O]

NL East Head-to-head
Squadron	NY	PHI	WAS	FLA	ATL	Tot
Mets		0-0	6-2	2-0	5-4	13-6
Phils	0-0		1-2	3-1	4-1	8-4
Nats	2-6	2-1		2-3	1-1	7-11
Fish	0-2	1-3	3-2		0-0	4-7
Braves	4-5	1-4	1-1	0-0		6-10

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York	21	10	.677	--	12-6	9-4	151	124	L1	7-3
Philly	17	14	.548	4	10-10	7-4	155	157	W8	8-2
The South of Francoeur	13	18	.419	8	6-5	7-13	154	147	W1	4-6
Capital City	11	21	.344	10.5	3-10	8-11	138	163	W1	4-6
Miami	8	21	.276	12	2-12	6-9	130	156	L3	2-8

* Yesterday aside, we've won 5 of 7, 10 of 15 and, uh, 20 of 30. Had another 4-game winning streak (first since SF-ATL in late April).
* Somebody's due for a statistical correction.

Monday's games
Atlanta 2, Colorado 0
Philadelphia 8, Florida 5
Mets 2, Washington 1

Tuesday's games
Philadelphia 7, Florida 5
Washington 6, Mets 2
Atlanta 5, Colorado 4

Wednesday's games
Florida 6, Washington 5
Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 4
Mets 4, Pittsburgh 3 (12 innings)

Thursday's games
Florida 11, Washington 3
Philadelphia 6, Atlanta 3
Mets 6, Pittsburgh 0

Friday's games
Washington 6, Pittsburgh 0
Philadelphia 8, San Francisco 3
Mets 8, Atlanta 7
St. Louis 7, Florida 2

Saturday's games
Mets 6, Atlanta 5
St. Louis 7, Florida 6
Pittsburgh 5, Washington 4
Philadelphia 4, San Francisco 1

Sunday's games
Washington 5, Pittsburgh 4
St. Louis 9, Florida 1
Atlanta 13, Mets 3
Philadelphia 9, San Francisco 5

Next series
Mets (21-10) [Martinez (5-0, 2.72), Glavine (4-2, 1.94), Trachsel (2-2, 4.96)] at Philadelphia (17-14) [Myers (2-1, 3.11), Lidle (3-3, 4.17), Floyd (3-2, 6.16)]

Atlanta (13-18) (Thomson, Davies, Hudson) at Florida (8-21) (Moehler, Johnson, Mitre)

Washington (11-21) (Armas, Hernandez, Day) at Cincinnati (21-11) (Claussen, Harang, Arroyo)

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

After holding steady for a couple of days, there's movement in the magic number.

The Mets defeated the Phillies tonight, and the magic number is now 126.

[The Big O]

NL East Head-to-head
Squadron	NY	PHI	WAS	FLA	ATL	Tot
Mets		1-2	6-2	2-0	5-4	14-8
Phils	2-1		1-2	3-1	4-1	10-5
Nats	2-6	2-1		2-3	2-3	8-13
Fish	0-2	1-3	3-2		1-2	5-9
Braves	4-5	1-4	3-2	2-1		10-12

National League East
Squadron	W	L	%	GB	home	road	RS	RA	streak	L10
New York	23	14	.622	--	12-6	11-8	188	158	L1	5-5
Philadelphia	22	15	.595	1	12-11	10-4	178	179	W4	9-1
Atlanta	17	20	.459	6	8-6	9-14	191	176	L1	4-6
D.C.	13	25	.342	10.5	3-10	10-15	170	193	W1	4-6
Florida	11	24	.314	11	3-14	8-10	165	195	W2	4-6

* In the vein of Willets' previous comment, the Mets are playing .500 ball since the hot start. After going 10-2 out of the blocks, we're 13-12. (Of course, you won't hear me complaining if we come out of this next week at 4-3 or even 3-4).
* The Mets are in the top tier of MLB in RS-RA differential, 6th behind St. Lou, MFY, Inter Toronto, Chisox and Detroit. The negative award goes to the Cubbies, Bucs, D-Dogs, Royales and Gothams.
* The Braves quietly had a substantive uptick this week, feasting on the Nats and Fish to the tune of a 4-2 mark.
* Somebody's still due for a statistical correction. Without the Mets, those guys would be on a 14-game winning streak. Yikes. (Other team to win 9 of their last 10: The Padres.)
* Wash. & Fla. have only 3 home wins apiece -- next fewest is 7.
* Fish finally got over that elusive 10-win hurdle.

Monday's games
Siesta

Tuesday's games
Philadelphia 5, Mets 4
Atlanta 10, Florida 2
Washington 7, Cincinnati 1

Wednesday's games
Mets 13, Philadelphia 4
Florida 11, Atlanta 3
Cincinnati 9, Washington 6

Thursday's games
Philadelphia 2, Mets 0
Atlanta 9, Florida 1
Cincinnati 5, Washington 4

Friday's games
Pittsburgh 12, Florida 1
Philadelphia 8, Cincinnati 4
Atlanta 6, Washington 2
Milwaukee 9, Mets 6

Saturday's games
Philadelphia 2, Cincinnati 0
Mets 9, Milwaukee 8
Atlanta 8, Washington 5
Florida 4, Pittsburgh 3

Sunday's games
Washington 8, Atlanta 1
Philadelphia 2, Cincinnati 1
Florida 8, Pittsburgh 2
Milwaukee 6, Mets 5

Next series
Mets (23-14) [Glavine (5-2, 2.19), Glavine (4-2, 1.94), Trachsel (2-3, 4.91), Bannister (2-0, 2.89) / Lima (0-2, 9.31)] at St. Louis (24-14) [suppan (4-2, 4.58), Mulder (4-1, 4.27), Marquis (4-4, 5.33)]

Philadelphia (22-15) (Lidle, Floyd, Hamels) at Milwaukee (19-19) (Capuano, Bush, Eveland)

Florida (11-24) (Johnson, Willis, Nolasco, Olsen) at Atlanta (17-20) (Davies, Hudson, Smoltz, Sosa)

Washington (13-25) (Hernandez, Day, Ortiz) at Chicago (15-22) (Zambrano, Marshall, Wood)

Weekend series -- (mostly) interleague!

MFY (21-14) (Johnson, Mussina, Chacon) at Mets (23-14) (Gonzalez?, Martinez, Glavine)

Boston (21-14) (Clement, Beckett, Schilling) at Philadelphia (22-15) (Lieber, Myers, Lidle)

Atlanta (17-20) (Thomson, Davies, Hudson) at Arizona (20-17) (Vargas, Batista, Webb)

Florida (11-24) (Moehler, Johnson, Willis) at Tampa Bay (15-23) (Fossum, Waechter, Kazmir)

Baltimore (18-20) (Benson, Cabrera, Lopez) at Washington (13-25) (O'Connor, Armas Jr., Hernandez)

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Oh yeah, in honor of Yancy ... the magic number is 125.

[Centerfield]

Despite our hiccup in St. Loo, we still find ourselves in first place, 2 ahead of the Phading Phils and 3.5 ahead of the surging Braves. After tripping us up, the Cards now have the best record in the NL, but the Mets remain the only other team playing .600 baseball.

The funny thing is, if I were in a coma from spring training and woke up today, I would be thrilled about where the Mets are. Which is odd considering how crummy I feel today. Maybe it's because it could have been better...maybe it's because I think we'll have our first 3 game losing streak when Unit squares off against Gonzalez tomorrow. I don't know.

But if nothing else, I guess this standings thread makes me feel a little bit better. First place. Not a bad place to be.

[soupcan]

Its cuz they started out so hot we all were expecting '86 all over again.

It's May, they're in 1st, the bullpen looks good, nice offense, Pedro & Glavine are pitching well.

There's a lot to feel good about.

Now if people would stop bringing up Kazmir every time I turned around...

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Izzy looked pretty good last night, Soupy. Did seeing him make you feel all gooshy inside?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Phillies get swept by the Brewers as the Mets take one of three from the Cardinals.

The magic number is 121.

[Frayed Knot]

Quick review before inter-league starts and begins to mess up all the math.
As of now, the division records as a while are:

NL East: -17 (games under .500)
NL Central: +3
NL West: +14

AL East: +11
AL Central: Even
AL West: -11

[smg58]

The NL West is really that good? I can believe the East being that bad (the Marlins and the Nats are doormats). I guess the West doesn't have anybody doing badly right now.