Baseball Blogging Once Again (UPDATED)

Back again this evening as the Mets open a 3-game set at home with Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Very likely Ramirez gets booed in New York and will have a much less welcoming reaction than he got in San Diego this past weekend. Here are the pitching match-ups/media info for the Mets-Dodgers series and the line-up for tonight's game.

Tuesday, July 7th:
Mike Pelfrey (6-3, 4.26) vs. Clayton Kershaw (5-5, 3.49)
7:10 PM - SNY/WFAN 660 AM

Wednesday, July 8th:
Oliver Perez (1-2, 9.97) vs. Hiroki Kuroda (3-4, 3.91)
7:10 PM - SNY/ESPN/WFAN 660 AM

Thursday, July 9th:
Livan Hernandez (5-4, 4.56) vs. Randy Wolf (3-3, 3.49)
7:10 PM - SNY/WFAN 660 AM

Tonight's Line-Up:
Luis Castillo - 2B
Alex Cora - SS
David Wright - 3B
Gary Sheffield - RF
Fernando Tatis - 1B
Ryan Church - CF
Nick Evans - LF
Omir Santos - C
Mike Pelfrey - P

Will also have some live-blogging of the Yankees-Twins game tonight in the same one as the Mets. That game will begin at 8:10 PM as they are in Minnesota. Here are the pitching match-ups for that series and tonight's line-up:

Tuesday, July 7th:
CC Sabathia (7-5, 3.85) vs. Scott Baker (6-6, 4.99)
8:10 PM - MY9/WCBS 880 AM

Wednesday, July 8th:
A.J. Burnett (7-4, 3.83) vs. Glen Perkins (4-4, 4.38)
8:10 - YES/WCBS 880 AM

Thursday, July 9th:
Alfredo Aceves (5-1, 2.03) vs. RHP Anthony Swarzak (2-2, 3.90)
1:10 PM - YES/WCBS 880 AM
**Aceves threw a bullpen session today and was told after he would start on Thursday**

Tonight's Line-Up:
Derek Jeter SS
Johnny Damon LF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Alex Rodriguez 3B
Hideki Matsui DH
Nick Swisher RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Brett Gardner CF
Francisco Cervelli C

See you at about 7:00 for the games!