New York Mets at Houston Astros, 1:05 PM CDT

Wolf career ERA at MMP is 4.76 with a 1.32 ERA and 5 HR in 23 IP. (He has given up quite a few homers to the Astros at the Juice Box.)

Wolf career ERA against the Astros is quite good. 3.76 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, and .222 BAA.

Wolf has a good career ERA against the Mets. 3.35 ERA, 1.26 WHIP, .240 BAA.

Wolf has already pitched once this year against the Mets and it was a beauty. He got the win, going 7.0 IP, allowing 1 H and 1 R, with 2 BB and 2 K.

By the way, Stros Bros, I’m sure you do want to see Wolf pitch well…since I just noticed that he is on your fantasy team. :)

Without looking at stats, I know almost immediately that Perez has been an Astros-Killer. I can remember too many games in which he has dominated the Astros, including a gem in 2004 against a good hitting Astros lineup.
Perez vs. Astros, 2.76 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, BAA below .200.

If it’s any consolation, Perez has started only one game at MMP (surprising), and he was rocked, going only 5.1 IP, giving up 4 HRs to the Astros, and posting an ERA for the game above 11.

This season, Oliver Perez has been almost impossible for LHB to hit. Lefthanders are batting about .150 against Perez with a microscopic WHIP. That is bad news for Erstad, who was complaining (well, that is probably too strong a word) last night that he has faced a lot of LHB lately, but normally doesn’t see them much. If Bourn was in the lineup against a LHB, that would be even worse. Unfortunately, Loretta (who hits lefties well) is out of the lineup because he is still dinged up from last night’s action. Wiggy will be in the lineup, and he normally hits LHP well. Pence and Lee also hit LHP well. But, in Pence’s case, he has problems against the slider….and Perez has an exceptional slider.

gives up long fly balls to left field?

2-0 in the second.

in case you forgot…

That’s channel 4 for Houston Comcast customers.

with a lead off fly out to right..

per Brownie… stiffness in his forearm…

No harm done

10 game hitting streak(per Brownie)

need to run an errand..

Good Luck!

in the top of the second.

And that is a one-two-three inning for Wolf.

To start the 2nd. 1-0 Astros

stretching a single into a double.

Robinson Cancel attempts to steal 3rd and Q thorws him out.

Wolf strikes out.
Matsui pops out
Tejada flies out.

2 on and no outs. :(

Bourn with that ankle.

Loretta from being banged up in that double slide at home last night.

Both ae available to pinch hit

but it’s only in 5 AB’s

loads the bases for the Mets with one out

With Nick Evans. Too bad it’s only the 4th. Otherwise I would say it’s time for right handed specialist LaTroy Hawkins!

Struck out the side (not counting the 3 men who reached base)

We will score… 2 runs this inning.

Doubles….

JD mentions right before the pitch “Better keep it down”, well Perez doesn’t and Wigginton drives it to the fence in left for a double.

Doubles ths itme (after homerun his first time up)

Perez forgot to look at the scouting report and find out that he should throw him sliders.

is confusing alot of hitters today… I wasn’t at the TV, but I heard it made Delgado bail out earlier.

...prompted me to look up his current stats. There’s been some talk about his recent home run drought, and some have speculated that it’s due to the fact that his early season dominance has caused pitchers to never really give him anything to hit.

His OBP is a ridiculous .442. I hadn’t realized that from 2001-2006, he finished each season with a .400+ OBP. In 2007, he “only” posted .386.

Right now, he’s on pace to walk 99 times, which is par for the course for the last four years or so.

His rate stats right now look a lot like his 2001 season.
2001: .331 / .430 / .620 (AVG/OBP/SLG)
2008: .340 / .442 / .615

One big difference…intentional walks….in all of 2001, he only received 5 IBBs. This year, which is only 2/3 over, he’s already received 13.

stranded though as Wolf gets out of another bind

National spotlight never does us any good.

Sampson probably coming in.

Wolf Stats
5 innings, 6 hits, 3 Walks, 7 K’s and 0 ER

Not too shabby! Now let’s add a W to that.

UNLESS YOU KNOW YOU CAN HIT IT, TEJADA! Dammit, boy!

6 for 8 with 4 RBI’s and 4 runs scored.

1-4 hitters are 1-11 with no RBI’s and no runs scored.

Hopefully he’ll add to my fantasy stats ;)

That ball took a weird 1st bounce… Tejada bare hands it and fires to 1st to get Evans by a step or 2

and then gets thrown out going for 2… Lee kind of loafed it out of the box…

Allowed a hit to Reyes, but no damage allowed…

I doubt he’ll go 3… but he probaby could after throwing just 24 pitches

???

He’s actually pretty fast… helluva drag bunt to

I didn’t know they could actually win games.

Why is he being used in a 4-0 game?

Now runner on 3rd with 2 outs.

Caught at the warning track, though.

Another single. Berkman up.

BWAHAHA!

Frequent topic of conversation is whether the Brewers resign CC or Sheets. Talk radio guy who covers the team, Sparky, said that everyone close to Ben that he has talked to says he’d like to end up in Atlanta or Houston.

How’s that for a giant FWIW?

Surprising… Not sure I like the concept of using my 8th and 9th inning guys in a 4-0 game…

I keep spelling Wolf as Wofl… I need to learn to type..

JD is goofy

Too many baserunners but bottom line no runs allowed. Would have been nice to get one or two more innings. Overall though a positive outing for him.

to end this game. I don’t need any suspense today.

Pirates just tied the Cubs – HR off Gaudin

Sweep the Mets! Yippie!

Sweep Mets
Beltran flied to Pence in right to end the game.

Let’s sweep the Cubs next!
7-2 agianst winning teams since the ASB
2-4 against losing teams teams (Reds and Pirates)

9-6 overall.

Damn the Pirates!!!

Not just because a worse record team did it, either. The way they lost game 2 was so absurd and kooky, the Mets seemed to be shell shocked in this game.

In an earlier thread to open the series, I took a trip down memory lane to recall the Astros’ sweep of the “Miracle Mets” in August, 1969. At the time, I didn’t want to suggest the possibility of a sweep for this series. But it happened.