Mets (11-10, second place/NL East) vs. Braves (11-11, fourth place/NL East)
*Friday: * RHP Mike Pelfrey (2-0, 3.18) vs. RHP Jair Jurrjens (2-2, 3.20), 7:10 p.m. (SNY, WFAN, WADO)
Saturday: RHP John Maine (1-2, 3.57) vs. RHP Tim Hudson (3-1, 2.93), 1:10 p.m. (CW11, WFAN, WADO)
*Sunday: *RHP Nelson Figueroa (1-1, 4.05) vs. RHP John Smoltz (3-1, 0.78), 1:10 p.m. (CW11, WFAN, WADO)
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Braves short hops:
Tom Glavine isn’t eligible to return from his first career DL stint until Tuesday, but he’ll be at Shea this weekend, the site of his seven-run, one-third inning performance against the Marlins on the final day of 2007. … Chipper Jones, who loves Shea so much he named his child after the ballpark, celebrated his 36th birthday Thursday by going 3-for-3 with a homer against the Marlins. His career numbers in Flushing: 310, 19 HR, 53 RBI in 83 games. … The Braves optioned Glavine fill-in Chuck James to Triple-A and will call up an extra bullpen arm for this weekend’s series. … Center ...
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More important then baseball.....Feliciano
metsfever.blogspot.com 4/25/2008 — Remember last week when the Brewers visited Shea and during the opening game everybody was either worried that Pedro Feliciano was hurt or screaming at Willie for not using him. The reason for such clamouring was how consistent and good a reliever ...
Read: Wallace Matthews, Open Letter to Reyes
metsblog.com 4/25/2008 — In his latest column for Newsday , Wallace Matthews writes an open letter to Jose Reyes , asking, “Reyes, do you want to be a Derek Jeter or a Rey Ordonez ?”
Matthews continues on to write:
“Jeter’s name is synonymous ...
News: Clark DFA’d, Molina Called Up
metsblog.com 4/25/2008 — The Mets have announced OF Brady Clark was designated for assignment and C Gustavo Molina has been activated to take Clark’s place on 25-man roster.
Molina was batting .288 with 1 HR and 9 RBI in 52 at-bats for Triple-A New Orleans this ...
Casting some of the vitriol away from the team
pickmeup.mlblogs.com 4/25/2008 — Hey, Angel Hernandez:This will be my 3rd post in under 14 hours. Rare, but I couldn't let this one go.If you were watching last night's broadcast on SNY, you heard Gary Cohen barely restraining himself from going off on 1st...
Mets vs. Braves (series opener)
nydailynews.com 4/25/2008 — 3:31 p.m.: I had a very entertaining chat with Bob Mandt, a former stadium operations manager at Shea recently while I was preparing a recent story I wrote on the Home Run Apple. He was telling me of some of the early days at Shea, when team staff ...
Glavine makes first trip back to NY —
Major League Baseball News 4/25/2008
When Tom Glavine rejoined the Braves in November, he talked about how he wished his career with the Mets had ended differently. Before Friday, the previous time he'd been at Shea Stadium for a game was on Sept. 30. Though Glavine is on the disabled ...
