Dodgers vs Mets Baseball Picks
The Dodgers have taken the first two games of the series and are looking for the sweep before heading to Philadelphia.
The Dodgers have taken the first two games of the series and are looking for the sweep before heading to Philadelphia.
After a one run loss and a one run win the Mets finished their weekend against the Dodges by being spanked 14-2.
The performance of the Atlanta Braves’s pitching rotation shows how unpredictable baseball performance can be. Injuries? What injuries?
On the season the Nationals have an Over/Under record of 1-1 and a run-line W/L record of 2-0 and the Mets have an Over/Under record of 1-1 and a run-line W/L record of 0-2.
As this is being written the Mets and Braves were tied at 5 and in a delay in the 8th of this series opener. The Atlanta Braves are firmly in first in the National League East and are 7-3 in their last 10 heading into Friday night.
After the Toronto Blue Jays, the Los Angeles Dodgers are right up there in terms of disappointments this season.
The Nationals fashion themsleves an elite team but after losing the series opener to the Mets are closer to the middle than the top of the National League East. They opened the series with Stephen Strasburg on the hill but the Mets weren’t shy in welcoming him to the Big Apple.
When New York decided to jettison a few high-priced but underperforming players during the 2011 season Mets fans accepted the fact that last season was the start of a major rebuilding program. The end result was an overall record of 74-88 which was actually three more losses than the year before, but the team may finally have some of the right pieces in place for a change.
Johan Santana threw a no-hitter earlier this year, but ever since then Santana has been awful. The Mets as a team have turned south as well after hanging in the NL East race for quite some time. Washington has the best record in the major leagues, and the Nationals continue to put up awesome pitching numbers.
The National League East was supposed to be the Philadelphia Phillies division once again this year, but in the middle of the July the Phillies sit in last place in the division.
Tonight’s Game 1 match up in this series is one between 2 teams heading in different directions, as the Mets have won 2 straight while the Padres have lost 3 in a row.
Cincinnati travels to New York to play the Mets for a couple games before taking on the Yankees in Interleague play this weekend.
Things are not going so well for the Phillies in the early part of the season, as they are in the basement of the NL East, Ace Roy Halladay has lost his last 4 starts, including last night, and starter Cole Hamels has been suspended for 5 games for beaning a batter.
The Phillies are in the basement in the NL East and have struggled against left-handed pitching this season, but they have Ace Roy Halladay on the mound.
The Mets started the season red hot, but after being swept in yesterday’s double-header against the Giants they are just 8-8 on the season. Miami is 7-8 on the year, but they are only 2-6 away from home.
The Mets are definitely off to a better than expected start. They took the opener of now their second series against Atlanta last night making them 4-0 vs the Braves this year (they are just 3-3 against everybody else).