Starters' scoreless streak still alive

[Frayed Knot]

Now at 27 innings and counting: Dickey = 6.0, Takahashi with 6.0, Pelfrey with 7.0, and Santana's 8.0 last night.

It's also 2 ERs over the last 7 games/46.2 IPs - the last run allowed being that RBI fly ball single Cervelli thought he hit out of the park.

Hart's HR was the first allowed by any NYM pitcher in 86 innings.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: Hart's HR was the first allowed by any NYM pitcher in 86 innings.

The HR streak was likely aided by the Mets playing most of those games at home. Here are the 2010 home/road splits for HR's by Mets and their opponents:

Citi Field --33 HR's/28 games -----1.18 HR/game
Road-------46 HR's/21 games -----2.19 HR/game

Quirk Alert -- The Mets have outhomered the opposition at CF by 20 to 13, but have been outhomered on the road 18 to 28.

OE -- Maybe the Mets really are stealing signs at home.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Frayed Knot wrote: Now at 27 innings and counting: Dickey = 6.0, Takahashi with 6.0, Pelfrey with 7.0, and Santana's 8.0 last night.

So, that means we're due for 9 innings of snow here.

This team's pitchers work far too much in the upper zone to not give up home runs... it just seems like this year's group seems to either be miserly or drunken-prom-date at any given time in that regard.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Hart's HR was the first allowed by any NYM pitcher in 86 innings. The HR streak was likely aided by the Mets playing most of those games at home.

Certainly the Ben Francisco shot the other day was a HR just about anywhere else, and prolly a couple others too.
Still a nice run though.

[Chad ochoseis]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: This team's pitchers work far too much in the upper zone to not give up home runs

This has generally been true, but maybe not so much with Tak and Dickey in the rotation instead of Ollie and Maine.