All sorts of interesting things in today’s press notes:
RAIN OUT INFORMATION: Last night’s game was postponed due to
rain and has been rescheduled as part of a single-admission,
doubleheader this Thursday afternoon, April 14, starting at 12:10 p.m.
Only tickets marked “April 14 – Game 7” for Thursday’s game will be…
honored for the 12:10 p.m. game and makeup game to follow…The
game time has been moved up one hour to accommodate the
Rockies’ travel schedule…
Tickets from last night’s rainout will NOT be valid for admission Thursday...Fans are encouraged to follow the standard rain-check ticket exchange policy on Mets.com…For complete information, please visit Mets.com or call (718) 507-TIXX.
DOUBLEHEADERS: The last time the Rockies and Mets squared off in a doubleheader was July 30, 2009, the first doubleheader in Citi Field’s history…The Mets won game one, 7-0, behind Johan Santana and lost game two, 4-2 as Jonathon Niese took the loss…The last time the Mets swept a doubleheader from the Rockies was August 19, 2004 in a day-night double dip at
Colorado…The last time the Rockies swept a doubleheader from
the Mets was August 21, 1993 at Colorado…New York was 0-1-1 in
doubleheaders in 2010, spliting a pair of games with San Diego on
June 10 at Citi Field and losing both ends of a doubleheader on
September 29 vs. Milwaukee.
THIS DATE IN METS HISTORY: National League baseball officially
returns to New York as the Mets drop their home opener, 4-3, to the
Pirates, before 12,447 fans at the Polo Grounds…Frank Thomas
belts a home run and Sherman Jones suffers the loss on the mound
for the Mets…Tom Seaver pitches in his first major league game on
April 13, 1967…Seaver gets a no-decision as the Mets top
Pittsburgh 3-2 at Shea…Tom hurls 5.1 innings, allows six hits, two
runs, with four walks and eight strikeouts.
Wow – 12,000? Really? My grandpa must have gone to town on that in the old Mets Police newsletter which he used to hand out in Times Square while standing on a milk crate.
NIESE IN APRIL: Is 1-2 with a 4.05 ERA (18 earned runs/40.0 innings) in seven career starts during the month…From April 19-April 30, 2010, a stretch of three games, he went 1-0 with a 1.00 ERA (two earned runs/18.0 innings)…Allowed 17 hits, no home runs and struck out 20.
SHAKY STARTS: Has allowed six earned runs in three of his last four starts dating to last season…However, he has not surrendered a home run over this stretch of games.
VS. THE ROCKIES: Niese is 0-1 with a 4.91 ERA (10 earned/18.1 innings) in three games, all starts against Colorado…In his three career starts, the Rockies are hitting .301 off of him…Colorado’s total of 22 hits rank fifth most of any team against Niese.
AT HOME: At Citi Field, Niese is 4-7 with a 4.46 ERA (55 earned/111.0 innings) in 20 games, all starts…Has surrendered 10 home runs at Citi Field over those starts
None of those numbers make me feel good.
How often do baseball teams win three times in 31 hours?
