5/16/08 - 5/18/08 | New York Mets @t New York Yankees | 3-Game SUBWAY SERIES

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Regular Season Game's #40,41,42.





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New York Mets: 20-19, .513, (8-10 on the road), 3rd Place in NL East/2.5GB
New York Yankees: 20-22, .476, (9-9 at home), 5th Place in AL East/4.5GB


Last Game: 5/15/08- Washington Nationals (1) at New York Mets (0) Final.
Next Series: 5/20/08- New York Mets at Atlanta Braves 1:05pm EDT.

New York Mets 2008 Complete Schedule/Results



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VENUE: @t Yankee Stadium.




GAME 1

Friday, May 16th, 2008, 7:05pm EDT.
TV: SNY.
RADIO: WFAN 660AM.

LIVE SCORE!


Projected Starting Pitchers
(Pitching Matchup Subject to Change)


NY Mets @t NY Yankees

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(#57 Johan Santana) vs. (#43 Darrell Rasner)
(4-2, 3.10 ERA) vs. (2-0, 3.00 ERA)
(15-13, 3.33 ERA) & (1-3, 4.01 ERA)
(97-46, 3.21 ERA) § (6-5, 3.92 ERA)

& - (LAST SEASON)

§ - (CAREER)

GAME 1 PREVIEW*Yahoo!'s Gameday Preview
*Live Game Audio
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GAME 2

Saturday, May 17th, 2008, 1:05pm EDT.
TV: SNY.
RADIO: WFAN 660AM.

LIVE SCORE!


Projected Starting Pitchers
(Pitching Matchup Subject to Change)


NY Mets @t NY Yankees

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(#46 Oliver Perez) vs. (#46 Andy Pettitte)
(3-3, 4.61 ERA) vs. (3-4, 4.40 ERA)
(15-10, 3.56 ERA) & (15-9, 4.05 ERA)
(48-56, 4.43 ERA) § (204-117, 3.85 ERA)

& - (LAST SEASON)

§ - (CAREER)

GAME 2 PREVIEW*Yahoo!'s Gameday Preview
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GAME 3

Sunday, May 18th, 2008, 8:05pm EDT.
TV: ESPN.
RADIO: WFAN 660AM.

LIVE SCORE!


Projected Starting Pitchers
(Pitching Matchup Subject to Change)


NY Mets @t NY Yankees

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(#33 John Maine) vs. (#40 Chien-Ming Wang)
(5-2, 2.81 ERA) vs. (6-1, 2.90 ERA)
(15-10, 3.91 ERA) & (19-7, 3.70 ERA)
(28-21, 4.01 ERA) § (52-19, 3.66 ERA)

& - (LAST SEASON)

§ - (CAREER)

GAME 3 PREVIEW*Yahoo!'s Gameday Preview
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*Live SPORTS Scoreboard!





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(***Projected Starting Pitching Subject to Change***)

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LET'S GO METS!!!

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So, the final ever regular season subway series at Yankee Stadium is finally upon us! Here's hoping we can close out the place on a positive note! I don't want to be calling this a must-win-series for us...but it's pretty close. We're coming off a very disappointing 4-game series against the Nats, in which we blew 2 gems from our starters (Vargas/Pelfrey). Now we hit the road for ten games (3 at NYY; 4 at ATL; 3 at COL). Maybe this could be a good thing for us, considering our recent struggles at Shea... Whatever the case, we need to find a way to get this ship righted soon. Certainly hasn't looked good out there as of late...

[kfkorn]

Some interesting pitching match-ups. Saving Johan Santana for game one against the Yankees was probably a smart move, a battle of the lefties in game two, and a very solid pitching match-up in game three.

Hopefully, the offense catches a spark and Aaron Heilman does not pitch in this series unless the Mets have a large lead.

[Sportsluvngrl86]

Go Mets! Hopefully we can recover from our disgraceful performance this afternoon and do better against the Yankees.

[TyPenn613]

Have the Mets ever played the Yankees in the regular season when the Yankees had a losing record?

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GAME 1 PREVIEW!
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>>> Source! <<<

GAME: New York Mets (20-19, 3rd Place in NL East) at New York Yankees (20-22, 5th Place in AL East).

TIME: Friday, 7:05 p.m. EDT.

TV: SNY.

By MIKE VOTTA, STATS Senior Writer
8 hours, 3 minutes ago

The New York Mets won the Johan Santana sweepstakes in the offseason, and now they’re eager to show the Yankees what they’re missing.

The Mets’ new ace looks to improve on his strong numbers against the Yankees when he takes the mound Friday to open the three-game Subway Series at Yankee Stadium.

The Mets (20-19) acquired Santana from Minnesota for four prospects in February and signed him to a six-year, $137.5 million contract, hoping he would become the anchor of their rotation. So far, the left-hander hasn’t disappointed, going 4-2 with a 3.10 ERA in eight starts.

The Yankees (20-22) were on the verge of acquiring Santana but pulled out of talks in December, opting to hang on to the young players that would have gone to the Twins. Now, they’ll have to contend with the two-time Cy Young Award winner as a member of their crosstown rivals.

“You face a lot of good pitchers all year long,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “He’s one of the best in baseball. That doesn’t mean that you can’t score runs. You’ve got to take advantage of your opportunities.”

Santana is 16-4 with a 2.27 ERA in 35 interleague appearances, including 24 starts. That ERA is the lowest among pitchers who have thrown at least 100 innings in interleague play.

Santana has also fared well against the Yankees, going 3-0 with a 2.66 ERA in eight appearances, including five starts - his best ERA against any AL team. He’s 2-0 with a 1.17 ERA in four outings at Yankee Stadium.

Santana gave up three runs and a career high-tying 10 hits in six innings of a 12-6 win in the first game of a doubleheader with Cincinnati on Saturday. He threw 116 pitches, and the Mets decided to move him back a day to give him extra rest.

“It’s always good to get an extra day,” Santana said. “I have a philosophy. I got to do my job no matter who I’m facing or who the team is.”

The Mets could use a big game from their new ace. They dropped three of four to last-place Washington, including Thursday’s 1-0 loss, and are coming off a 3-4 homestand that included a series against another last-place team, the Reds.

“We’re too good of a team to be as inconsistent as we are right now,” third baseman David Wright told the Mets’ official Web site. “So hopefully we’ll go out there and win a series at Yankee Stadium, and that will give us the momentum to springboard us back into divisional play.”

The Yankees also need a boost. They dropped three of four at Tampa Bay, including Thursday’s 5-2 defeat, and are mired in last place in the AL East.

The Yankees, losers of six of nine, are struggling offensively with Alex Rodriguez and Jorge Posada on the disabled list. They managed just six runs in the four games against the Rays, only two off starters.

Rodriguez ranks first all-time with 221 interleague hits, behind teammate Derek Jeter’s 254, and just ahead of Johnny Damon’s 220.

“We’re much better than this. We can’t start blaming injuries. It’s part of the game,” Damon said. “We just have to deal with it, and we haven’t dealt with it the right way.”

The Yankees will hand the ball to Darrell Rasner (2-0, 3.00), who’s looking to win for the third time in as many starts since being called up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on May 4. He won 5-2 at Detroit on Saturday, yielding two runs in six innings.

“He’s been a shot in the arm for us,” Girardi said. “No one says you have to be fancy or overpowering. He’s figured out how to use his stuff and he’s done it effectively.”

Rasner started against the Mets on May 19 at Shea Stadium, but gave up two runs without recording an out and left when he was hit on the pitching hand with a comebacker. The injury landed him on the 60-day DL with a broken right index finger and ended his season.

This time, Rasner will have to contend with Santana.

“I can’t worry about who the pitcher is,” Rasner said. “I’m not hitting against him, luckily for myself.”

The Yankees own the best interleague record in baseball at 113-79 and are 35-25 against the Mets, who are 91-90 in interleague play. The teams split their six games in 2007, with each winning twice at home.

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Well well, what do we have here? Yet another series opener for us that gets rained out! No makeup date has been scheduled as of yet, but there's some rumors going around hinting that we may be seeing another one of those stadium-to-stadium doubleheaders type deal again like they did back in 2000... Personally, I'm not really a big fan of it (never was, even when they did it then), but I guess you could make a case for it being fitting to do it this year, considering that Yankee Stadium, and Shea Stadium are both in their final season... We'll see what the final word is, but as of now, no makeup date has been set.

Also, I'm not too sure how this rainout impacts the pitching match-ups for the rest of this series. So, whether or not we'll be seeing Santana pitching at all in this series is up in the air as of now...

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New York Mets (7)
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New York Yankees (4) Final.




NEW YORK - MAY 17: Davis Wright #5 of the New York Mets is greeted at home by teammate Ryan Church #19 after his seventh inning two run home run against the New York Yankees on May 17, 2008 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

WP: - J. Santana (5-2)
LP: - A. Pettitte (3-5)
SAVE: - B. Wagner (9)


Attendance
55,093.

Time
3:08.

Umpires
HP--Mike Reilly. 1B--Bob Davidson. 2B--Alfonso Marquez. 3B--Andy Fletcher.

Weather
71 degrees, sunny.

Wind
15 mph, out to right.


GAME NOTES
Giambi became the first player to homer on an 0-2 pitch from Santana since Kansas City’s Matt Diaz on Sept. 27, 2005, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. … In the NL for the first time, Santana ran his interleague record to 17-4. … Jeter is hitting .386 against the Mets in his career, the highest mark of any Mets opponent. … Mets LF Moises Alou, 41, played his first career game at Yankee Stadium.



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