Former Fish Carlos Delgado and Paul “The Duke” Lo Duca will face their former mates tonight as the Mets take on the Florida Marlins. The Marlins won 1 of 3 in their series with the Astros to start off the season, last night narrowly missing a late inning comeback.
Tonight, Steve “Slow Hand” Traschel takes the mound, thus the heading of this article “Sleeping With The Fishes”, in reference to the laboring pace that Slow Hand seems to take when on the hill. Steve has lost his last three decisions to the Marlins and has not won against them since June 25, 2003. Overall, last year he went 1-4 with a 4.14 ERA after missing the first five months
recovering from back surgery.
Florida will have lefty Jason Vargas, who was 5-5
with a 4.03 ERA in 17 games – 13 starts – after being called up
from Double-A Carolina.
