May 23.10: Chat Room, Game #45 vs. Yankees: Santana vs. Sabathia.

Overall, Johan Santana has enjoyed pitching against the Yankees, but what’s gnawing at him is his last one.

Santana, 4-2 with a 4.59 ERA in eight regular-season starts against the Yankees – including 1-2 with an 8.64 ERA with the Mets- gave up nine runs in three innings in a 15-0 loss last June 14 at the Stadium.

“It motivates me,’’ Santana said. “I don’t go crazy about it, but it’s there. I want to pitch against them again.’’

That game represented a career-high in runs allowed until the Phillies hit him for ten runs, May 2, at Philadelphia. Since then, he’s made three starts with no decisions, but a 2.49 ERA. He gave up two runs in seven innings in his last start, May 18, at Atlanta.

Interleague play has not been kind to Santana since joining the Mets as a free agent from Minnesota, going 2-5 with a 5.11 ERA in seven starts.

Santana will be going against C.C. Sabathia, who, beat him in three of four starts while the latter was with Cleveland.

Here’s tonight’s line-up:

Jose Reyes, SS
Luis Castillo, 2B
Jason Bay, LF
Ike Davis, 1B
David Wright, 3B
Angel Pagan, CF
Rod Barajas, C
Jeff Francoeur, RF
Johan Santana, LP

NOTEBOOK: Daniel Murphy went 5-for-5 with three RBI today for Class A Port St. Lucie. He is expected to join Class AAA Buffalo Tuesday. … Former Mets pitcher Jose Lima, 37, died of a heart attack in Los Angeles. He was 0-4 with the Mets in 2006, his final season in the major leagues. … Reliever Ryota Igarashi was activated from the DL and reliever Manny Acosta was optioned to Buffalo.

This post was written by John Delcos

31 Comments so far

  1. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:18 pm

    FIRST INNING: Alex Cora replaces Castillo. … Good start by Santana. Going after the Yankee hitters.-JD

  2. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:20 pm

    BOTTOM FIRST INNING: Reyes is now two hits shy of 1,000 hits for his career.-JD

  3. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:28 pm

    Wright looked bad in that AB with the bases loaded. Sabathia had him handcuffed.-JD

  4. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:30 pm

    Bases loaded, one out, no runs scored. We’ve seen that more than a few times this year. Same old story.-JD

  5. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:42 pm

    BOTTOM OF SECOND: Francoeur has nothing but the long ball on his mind.-JD

  6. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:43 pm

    Francoeur has now lost close to 200 points on his average since the 20-inning game.-JD

  7. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:47 pm

    If they could have done the fundamental thing and advanced Barajas to third, the Mets would have the lead now. Every little bit helps.-JD

  8. John Delcos May 23, 2010 8:52 pm

    Another good AB from Alex Cora. He just gets it done. He was a late starter to replace Castillo.-JD

  9. John Delcos May 23, 2010 9:38 pm

    FIFTH INNING: Made the comment the other day that the long ball was a matter of time for Bay. He has two tonight.-JD

  10. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:05 pm

    Bay got hit with a breaking ball. That wasn’t intentional.-JD

  11. dave May 23, 2010 10:29 pm

    9

    yes u did

    why did cora replace luis?

    why will murph go to AAA? dont they have enuf 1b? also 2b.

  12. dave May 23, 2010 10:31 pm

    sybil must have changed.

    why is johan pitching the 8th? i thought that is forbidden.

  13. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:37 pm

    dave (11): Castillo’s foot is bothering him again. … Santana’s pitch count has been great tonight.-JD

  14. dave May 23, 2010 10:37 pm

    thanks john

  15. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:40 pm

    But, the Yankees are making Santana work this inning. Before the inning started I thought he had a chance to go nine. Now, that’s not going to happen.-JD

  16. dave May 23, 2010 10:40 pm

    oh that is good

    drop ur ace for one of the guys who are spitting the bit from over use.

  17. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:41 pm

    Santana is reminding me of Pedro Martinez in that once he neared 100 pitches he lost it quickly.-JD

  18. dave May 23, 2010 10:44 pm

    nice and efficient

  19. dave May 23, 2010 10:45 pm

    17

    really?

    not goodd

  20. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:45 pm

    EIGHTH INNING: Good job by Feliciano to get Cano on three pitches. Santana was getting in trouble; no sense in pushing the envelope.-JD

  21. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:46 pm

    dave (19): When I covered the Yankees their game plan vs. Pedro was to run up his pitch count. Martinez’s ERA spiked around 100 pitches.-JD

  22. dave May 23, 2010 10:50 pm

    uv noticed the same with johan?

    i noticed the past few years that johan doesnt always get out of the 6th

  23. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:52 pm

    dave (22): I have. And, his pitch count has been high around the sixth or seventh.-JD

  24. John Delcos May 23, 2010 10:59 pm

    NINTH INNING: Stop fooling around. Get your closer in there now.-JD

  25. John Delcos May 23, 2010 11:04 pm

    It is obvious Igarashi doesn’t have it tonight. … It’s about time. Here comes K-Rod.-JD

  26. dave May 23, 2010 11:21 pm

    oh

    got him

  27. John Delcos May 23, 2010 11:22 pm

    Hell of a pitch by K-Rod. Gets A-Rod on the strikeout. Real tense in the ninth.-JD

  28. John Delcos May 23, 2010 11:24 pm

    A QUICK WRAP/Game #45

    FINAL: Mets 6, Yankees 4.
    RECORD: 22-23.
    THUMBNAIL ANALYSIS: Jason Bay hit two homers to back the strong pitching of Johan Santana, who won for the first time since late April.
    ON THE MOUND: Santana gave up one run in 7 2/3 innings. … Pedro Feliciano relieved Santana with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth and got Robinson Cano on a pop-up to first. … K-Rod punches out A-Rod to end the game with the tying runs on base.
    AT THE PLATE: Bay, who entered the game with one homer, drove in three runs with two homers. … Alex Cora delivered a two-run single.
    IN THE FIELD: Cora replaced Luis Castillo at second just before the start of the game.
    LOOKING AHEAD: Philadelphia is in to start a three-game series Tuesday.-JD

  29. dave May 23, 2010 11:30 pm

    john(27)

    u can say that again

  30. SteveC. May 24, 2010 11:10 am

    I saw it spiraling out of control. The pen is still burnt if you ask me.

  31. SteveC. May 24, 2010 11:29 am

    But it was a great win ;-)

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