The Mets are 10-5 against the other NL East teams this year and they have six more coming up this week. It’s against the Marlins and the Phillies, the two teams behind the Mets in the standings. They’re both capable teams, and the Mets face some good pitching, but it’s the perfect time to reassert their intra-division dominance and keep a winning record going.
The Mets have showed a nice resiliency this season with managing to avoid falling below .500 despite a couple of losing streaks. 4-2 would maintain their .667 winning percentage in the division as well as put them back to their 4 games over .500 high watermark. With Tejada (likely as of Sunday evening) going to the disabled list the Mets could use some of that resiliency. Jordanny Valdespin spent just enough time back in Buffalo to make sure he didn’t leave the oven on, and is on his way back to the majors.
The Mets do face some good pitching, but Roy Halladay hasn’t been perfect this year and Cliff Lee is making his first start off the DL. Hopefully there’s some rust there. The Mets miss Josh Johnson in Miami, but Carlos Zambrano, Mark Buehrle and Ricky Nolasco have been pitching pretty well. Maybe this is the week Ike Davis and Lucas Duda start acting like the bash brothers I hoped they could be.
