A review of the Mets' pitchers over the last seven days.
Over the last seven days, the Mets’ pitching got good results. Its 2.79 ERA ranked ninth in baseball for the week, though its 3.83 FIP ranked twentieth, mostly because of a high walk rate. Aside from a couple of clunker performances, however, things looked pretty good here. Scott Rice doesn't appear here because he was sent to Las Vegas before the Mets played this week.
| Player | Last Week | This Week | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vic Black, RHP |  | | Black only struck out one hitter and walked three in 4.1 innings, but he maintained a 0.00 ERA in the process—in large part because he only gave up two hits. |
| Bartolo Colon, RHP | | | Colon continued his recent stretch of excellent pitching by giving up just a run while striking out seven and walking one in 7.1 innings. His 4.15 ERA on the year might not sound impressive, but one month ago today, it sat at 5.84. |
| Jacob deGrom, RHP |  | | Despite striking out four and walking just one in 5.2 innings, deGrom gave up nine hits and three runs (4.76 ERA) in his outing this week. |
| Josh Edgin, LHP |  | | Edgin walked two batters and struck out one in one inning of work spread over three appearances, but he was not charged with a run. |
| Dana Eveland, LHP | | | In three outings totaling 3.1 innings, Eveland gave up just one hit and no runs. That’ll do. |
| Jeurys Familia, RHP | | | With a 2.70 ERA, 4 strikeouts, and no walks in three-and-one-third innings, Familia was once again very effective. He’s at a 2.60 ERA and 3.11 FIP on the season now. |
| Dillon Gee, RHP |  | | Gee's throwing a bit in St. Lucie but not returning anytime soon. |
| Gonzalez Germen, RHP | | | While allowing one run in three innings isn’t terrible, Germen walked more batters than he struck out and gave up a home run in his long-awaited return from the disabled list. |
| Daisuke Matsuzaka, RHP | | | Dice-K continued his run as a pleasant surprise with a 1.29 ERA in two starts. He had to leave the second one after just one inning because of a severely upset stomach. Let’s just hope he cuts down his walks from his 6.64 per nine on the season before they start to catch up with him in a hurry. |
| Jenrry Mejia, RHP | | | Mejia threw three-and-two-thirds perfect innings over three appearances. That’s about as good as a bounce-back week gets. |
| Jon Niese, LHP | | | With his third straight great start, Niese is down to a 2.54 ERA on the season, which is one of the best marks in baseball. |
| Carlos Torres, RHP | | | On Thursday, Torres gave up four runs and seven hits in four innings. Yesterday, he gave up just one run on three hits in four innings. Throw in a 1.2-inning scoreless outing on Wednesday, and he still had a 6.75 ERA. That’s about as wacky a week as a relief pitcher can have. |
| Zack Wheeler, RHP | | | Wheeler had been very effective over the four starts preceding this one, but he gave up four runs in five innings to the lowly Padres while striking out four and walking three. |