A few moments ago Clayton Kershaw was named the NL Cy Young winner. As with Verlander, I thought it would be interesting to see how the Mets fared against the newly crowned king of NL pitching. The Mets faced Kershaw twice this year and lost both times. Below is Kershaw's lines for the two games:
Date | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR |
8-May | 6.2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
7-Jul | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 |
As you can see, he pretty much buttered our bread. Over 14.2 innings he had a .61 ERA against the Mets and struck out 17. Compared to other team’s batting average against Kershaw in a similar number of innings, we fell close to the bottom, although only the Rockies really put up a decent number against him.
Team | IP | BAA |
COL | 18.2 | .288 |
ATL | 15.2 | .224 |
CIN | 13.2 | .213 |
FLA | 14.1 | .160 |
HOU | 14 | .196 |
LAA | 15 | .259 |
NYM | 14.2 | .208 |
Between the two CY young award winners the Mets hit better against the AL’s Justin Verlander. What’s the take away here? The Mets are going to lose guys like this, most teams lose to them. No matter what we will always generally lose to elite pitchers, the Mets need to be able to consistently beat the beatable pitchers to be in contention.
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