Arizona D-Backs (44-58 Road: 20-25) at New York Mets (49-52 Home: 28-21) 7:10pm
Doug Davis (5-10 3.76) vs. Livan Hernandez (7-5 4.87)
TV: SNY
What to watch: The fourth place D-Backs come to town after losing two of three at home to the Phils. The suddenly hot Mets send Hernandez to the mound after two straight good starts. Davis is 1-2 in his last three starts giving up 13 runs in 12.1 innings.
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We don’t have much information on this at the moment. But Arizona D-Backs pitcher Scott Schoeneweis’ wife Gabrielle was found dead at their home in Arizona today by her 14-year old daughter. She was unresponsive on the floor of the master bedroom.
Schoeneweis was with the team in Florida when he got the news and left the D-Backs for home. Gabrielle Schoeneweis was 39-years old.
This is a shocking story that I’m sure we’ll hear much more about in the near future.
For some reason SNY started breaking up their post game video segments into separate videos on YouTube. Anyway, here are the clips from last night’s dramatic win over the Arizona D-Backs.
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Arizona DiamondBacks (34-30) at New York Mets (30-32) 7:10pm
Micah Owings (6-4 4.50) vs. John Maine (6-4 3.47)
What to watch: The D-Backs have been struggling since their hot start to the season. This is a good chance to catch them playing flat on a long road trip. Maine had a very good start in San Francisco last week going six innings and giving up just one run. Moises Alou may be in the lineup tonight as well. Ryan Church is out for the next two weeks.
New York Mets (15-13) at Arizona Diamond Backs (21-9) 4:10pm
Johan Santana (3-2) vs. Dan Haren (4-1)
What to watch: The Mets really want to get this rubber game of the series. It’s always an aces pitching match up when Santana pitches, and this game is no different. Haren is a really good pitcher in his own right. I’d like to see Santana get through at least the seventh inning today to give the bullpen a break.
I never thought that the Mets would go into Arizona and sweep the D-Backs. They’re playing so well this season, it would seem almost impossible to win all three games there. So if the Mets were going to take two out of three, I figured that they wouldn’t be able to Brandon Webb. And they didn’t.
Webb didn’t pitch that well, so it’s a shame that the Mets couldn’t take advantage of a rare off day for him to get a win. Blame it on Mike Pelfrey, the bullpen, Carlos Beltran’s .208 average, or Endy Chavez’ non-existent bat. Blame it on all of them.
I’m just not seeing the tremendous upside of Mike Pelfrey that the Mets management does. The minor leagues are littered with guys who have great “stuff” but keep hitting bats and can’t throw strikes consistently. That’s what I see in Pelfrey. He was below average again today. His ERA is up to 5.27 now and that’s unacceptable in the rotation. He walked four and struck out one… that’s completely unacceptable!
Pedro Feliciano was pretty bad too, but his ERA was hurt by Scott Schoenweiss coming in and throwing a first pitch meatball to Augie Ojeda with the bases loaded. Ojeda hit it into the corner in right for a double for his 6th RBI of the game. How do you let a number 8 hitter beat you with six RBI’s?
The bullpen has been taxed far too much so far this season. The Mets really need the starters to get deeper into games badly. They can’t keep leaning on the bullpen to cover four or more innings in almost every game. There’s going to be a breaking point.
The Mets still have a chance to win the series tomorrow. Hopefully, they’ll be able to take this series before moving on to Los Angeles on Monday.
The Baseball Tonight crew talks about the challenges that the Mets will face going up against Brandon Webb today.
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