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Ollie finds strike zone half the time

Amazin' Avenue found this 7/4/2009 on nydailynews.com

Mets officials hoped to have Oliver Perez face the Dodgers on Wednesday in place of Tim Redding , but Perez's showing on Friday night for Triple-A Buffalo has to place that plan in question. Perez walked four and exactly half of his 92 pitches were for strikes. He didn't allow a run until a first-pitch homer by Rochester's Matt Macri in the fifth. Perez departed having reached his pitch count after allowing consecutive doubles to open the sixth. Reliever Kyle Snyder allowed an inherited runner ...