July 08, 2006
Games of the Day
It's rookie pitcher Saturday! The Mets throw two today as they face the Marlins in a double header. John Maine, with 13 K in 10 IP starts the first game, and New York follows up with the major league debut of Mike Pelfry. If you look at Mike's stats this year by month, you see he did great in A-Ball in April, had some problems at AA in May, but made the adjustment quickly and dominated June. He also batted over .500 at AA.
The Cardinals Anthony Reyes faces Roger Clemens in Houston. Both have great ERAs, both have losing records.
Scott Kazmir comes off his complete game against the Red Sox to try to shut down Wang and the Yankees. Scott is 5-1 at home with a 1.94 ERA.
Francisco Liriano and John Rheinecker face off in Texas in a battle of lefties. Once again, a good, long outing by Liriano puts him in the AL ERA lead. He has 81 innings pitched and the Twins have played 84 games. Rheinecker is lucky to have an ERA under 4.00 with the pounding he's taking from right-handed batters. They're hitting .353 against him with a .500 slugging percentage.
Jered Weaver takes his 5-0 record into Oakland, trying to follow up Lackey's great outing of last night. Weaver's gone at least six inning in all five starts and has yet to give up more than 2 runs.
Finally, Zach Miner faces Seattle with a five game winning streak and a 2.68 ERA. His ERA is 2.12 since his first start and only loss.
Enjoy!
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