IGT June 7 Mets at Gints

[Fman99]

Lets end the badness. Colon vs. Tim Hudson.

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at San Francisco
When: 10:05 PM ET, Saturday, June 7, 2014
Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
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The San Francisco Giants own the biggest division lead and became the first team in baseball to reach 40 wins while continuing their dominance at home. The Giants will try to secure their ninth win in the last 11 games when they host the New York Mets again on Saturday. The Mets got off to a promising start on their road trip but dropped three in a row to the Chicago Cubs and could not hold a lead on Friday against San Francisco as the losing streak hit four games.

The Giants improved to 19 games over .500 with Friday�s 4-2 triumph and have won seven of their last eight home games with nine still to come on the current homestand. The pitching staff is surrendering an average of 2.57 runs in the last 14 games and the offense is doing just enough to make that stand up, like when Buster Posey hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth on Friday. New York is struggling to find that sort of clutch hit during its slide and All-Star David Wright is 0-for-13 in that stretch.

TV:
10:05 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), CSN Bay Area (San Francisco)

PITCHING MATCHUP:
Mets RH Bartolo Colon (5-5, 4.52 ERA) vs. Giants RH Tim Hudson (6-2, 1.75)

Colon is enjoying a three-start winning streak and has worked into the eighth inning in each of those turns. The burly veteran issued a season-high three walks in seven-plus frames at Philadelphia on Monday but limited the damage to two runs for his third straight quality start. Colon does not own a long track record against anyone in the San Francisco lineup but surrendered a home run in three at-bats against Hunter Pence.

Hudson is enjoying a strong run and is making a bid for a National League All-Star spot by surrendering two earned runs or fewer in each of his last eight outings. The veteran has not surrendered a run in either of his last two outings after holding the St. Louis Cardinals to three hits in seven innings on Sunday. Hudson has plenty of experience against New York and is 17-10 with a 3.47 ERA in 30 career starts against the Mets.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Mets C Travis d�Arnaud is 3-for-26 since returning from the DL on May 29.
2. San Francisco SS Brandon Crawford has driven in five runs in the last two games.
3. New York top prospect RHP Noah Syndergaard will be shut down for a week after X-rays and a CT scan on his shoulder came back negative.

[Frayed Knot]

It's not that Hudson hasn't long been a good pitcher, but he's currently off to the best season of his career despite turning 39 in a few weeks and coming off a missed half-season with a rather gruesome broken ankle (courtesy of EYJ in a game last July).
In particular his walk rate is suddenly sub-1.0 per/9 after spending 15 seasons consistently in the 2.5-3.0 range and his H/9 (6.9) is the lowest in his career as well. The ballpark probably helps somewhat but it's not like Atlanta or Oakland were hitters paradises either and his HR/9 rates were always low anyway.

[ashie62]

He has been doing this a long time...hof?

[Guest themetfairy]

No. He hasn't amassed HOF stats.

[Zvon]

Fman99 wrote: Lets end the badness. Colon vs. Tim Hudson.

Fman99 ftw!

[Frayed Knot]

Matt den Dekker, cf
Daniel Murphy, 2b
David Wright, 3b
Curtis Granderson, rf
Chris Young, lf
Lucas Duda, 1b
Ruben Tejada, ss
Anthony Recker, c
Bartolo Colon, rhp


Angel Pagan, cf
Hunter Pence, rf
Buster Posey, c
Pablo Sandoval, 3b
Michael Morse, 1b
Tyler Colvin, lf
Brandon Crawford, ss
Brandon Hicks, 2b
Tim Hudson, rhp

[Fman99]

[ashie62]

I actually miss EYJ...

[Fman99]

Wow, apparently Tim Hudson is the active wins leader with 211 career W's. At age 39. And throwing darts this year. Will we ever see another 300 game winner? Starting to wonder...

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nice that we're getting off to a fast start with the RiSPwhiffing.

[Zvon]

CYoung, you are...

THE WEAKEST LINK.




Goodbye.

[Edgy MD]

I dunno. Weakest Link reference.

Funny seeing Tejada batting behind Duda.

[Fman99]

Nice! Recker brings in the first run.

Now, go get ten more.

[Edgy MD]

Mets leady.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: I dunno. Weakest Link reference.

Yea, that was weak. But, unfortunately, true.

[Edgy MD]

Very mullety team, these Giants. It's the spirit of Rod Beck out there.

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I dunno. Weakest Link reference. Yea, that was weak. But, unfortunately, true.

Hey, man, Young is a-huggin' third.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, Ruben.

[Zvon]

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I dunno. Weakest Link reference. Yea, that was weak. But, unfortunately, true. Hey, man, Young is a-huggin' third.

WTF happened there? I was just about to apologize to Mr CYoung.
Ah, Mr T screwed up. K, sorry CYoung. Nice hit and run scored.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fellas! FELLAS! I turned to the Met game to bring my heart rate DOWN between periods, fellas.

[Edgy MD]

Nice crowd at the Second Stick.

Not a lot of seagulls yet.

[Edgy MD]

We haven't had trouble getting the leadoff guy on.

[Edgy MD]

Murphy nailed by a Murphy-type play.

[Zvon]

After watching hockey, my goodness, baseball is slow.

Hi guyz!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

In a way, it's gotten comforting, this RiSP problem of ours. Reliable. Soothing, almost.

[Zvon]

Recker not looking good. He had to get that guy in from 3rd. Boooooo!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This team... Pence notwithstanding, they do not like the haircuts, do they?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Joe West, man.

[Zvon]

Sheez. Joe West you suck! (4 that pitch-I like West)