The Mets travel to Philadelphia for a huge pitching matchup as Johan Santana faces Cole Hamels in a battle of elite lefties. Hamels is posting an 0.82 ERA despite a rise in his walk rate and a fall in his strikeout rate compared to 2007. He's become tougher to hit, however, as the league is batting just .143 against him, .083 with runners on base. Santana pitched well in all three starts, but ran into trouble with the gopher ball the last time out against Milwaukee. That's a danger as well when facing Philadelphia.

Cleveland travels to Minnesota where the rejuvenated Cliff Lee faces the recovering Francisco Liriano. Lee has been about as perfect as you could expect from a starter. In 14 2/3 innings so far he's recorded twelve strikeouts, walked just one and allowed no home runs. Liriano didn't look ready to return to the majors as he walked five in his first start. He walked 32 in 121 innings before his injury sent him to surgery in 2006.

In Anaheim, Joe Saunders tries to continue his ace-like pitching against the Seattle Mariners. He's only allowed one extra base hit so far, so his opponents OBA (.253) is higher than his opponents slugging percentage (.233). R.A. Dickey makes his first start for the Mariners. He spent last year in the Brewers system converting to a pure knuckleball pitcher. He pitched one perfect inning of relief so far, so we'll see if this start goes better the last start in which he just threw the knuckleball at the major league level.

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