He’s 6-0 with a 2.05 ERA in eight starts against them, including a 3-0 mark and 1.63 ERA in four outings at Land Shark Stadium.

Johnson will also try to help Florida win for the eighth time in 10 home games after beating New York 2-1 on Tuesday to remain 5 1/2 games behind Colorado for the NL Wild Card.

The Mets have dropped four in a row since Mike Pelfrey allowed two runs in six innings in Friday’s 4-2 win over Philadelphia.

The righthander has struggled through 10 road starts, going 4-5 with a 5.93 ERA. He has an 8.33 ERA while losing his last three. Pelfrey is 1-5 with a 5.36 ERA in nine starts against the Marlins.

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Despite having one of the NL’s best ERAs, Jurrjens has won just two of his last eight starts. The Braves are averaging 3.4 runs during these outings.

Jurrjens faces the Mets, who have lost four straight on the road, for the second time this season. In a 4-3, 10-inning loss at Citi Field on May 12, he surrendered two runs and seven hits in 7 2-3 innings.

Mets righthander Mike Pelfrey went seven innings in that contest and yielded two runs and six hits. He is 1-1 with a 5.63 ERA in three career starts at Atlanta.

Chipper Jones is 4 for 13 with two homers lifetime against Pelfrey.

Atlanta, which is listed as a -220 favorite, has won nine of 12 at home against New York.

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Oliver Perez will take the mound for the New York Mets Thursday as they try to start the second half of the season with a win against the Atlanta Braves.

Perez is 2-2 with a 8.78 ERA this season.

Very few things have been going right for the Mets this season and any hopes of a run at the postseason seems to have been wrecked by injuries.

A 5-8 post-All-Star break record in July last season pushed the Braves out of contention.

Mark Teixeira and Mark Kotsay were gone shortly thereafter.

The Braves hope that this year will be different. They’ll find out very quickly with four games against the Mets and four games against the very hot San Francisco Giants.

Derek Lowe will be given the ball to start the second half for the Braves. Lowe is 8-7 with a 4.39 ERA so far this season.

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Sabathia left Sunday's outing at Florida after 1 and 1/3 innings with a strained left biceps.

He'll face a Mets team looking for revenge after the Yankees beat up ace Johan Santana en route to a 15-0 win in the deciding game of their series at Yankee Stadium on June 14.

The Mets will hand the ball to Mike Pelfrey after the righthander allowed four runs in five innings Sunday against Tampa Bay.

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is close to a milestone, needing one more save to join Trevor Hoffman as the only players with 500.

The Yankees are listed as -170 favorites in this one.

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The Mets have alternated wins and losses on the first five games of their road swing, and will go with Livan Hernandez to close out the trip.

The righthander looks to rebound from a 9-8 loss to the New York Yankees on Friday when he allowed six runs and six hits over 5 1-3 innings. Hernandez is 3-1 with a 3.94 ERA in five career starts against the Orioles.

Baltimore rookie righthander Jason Berken will try to get off to a better start than he did in a 7-2 loss to Atlanta on Friday. Berken has lost his last three starts since winning his major league debut May 26.

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The New York Mets just can't catch a break.

Coming off their most lopsided loss in almost nine years, the undermanned Mets will have yet another injury to deal with when they open a three-game interleague series against the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards.

The Mets have dropped four of their last five, including a 15-0 rout against the New York Yankees on Sunday, and now Gary Sheffield is going to get an MRI on his sore right knee.

New York is already missing Carlos Delgado and Jose Reyes.

Mike Pelfrey seeks his first win in nearly six weeks when he starts against Baltimore for the first time.
The Mets are 12-7 all-time against the Orioles, but haven't faced them since dropping two of three in 2006.

The Orioles will give the ball to Jeremy Guthrie, who is 0-2 with an 8.53 ERA and five homers allowed in his last three starts.

The Yankees dropped all three meetings with the Mets for the first time at old Yankee Stadium last season after winning 22 of the previous 32 contests.

New York's AL representative holds a 37-29 advantage in the all-time Subway Series during the regular season.

There have been a major league-high 105 homers hit in the Bronx so far this season and the Yankees lead the majors with 57 homers at home.

Joba Chamberlain, making his first start against the Mets, is 2-0 with a 3.82 ERA over his last six outings overall. MLB odds have listed the Yankees as -240 favorites.

The Mets counter with Livan Hernandez, who is 0-3 with a 6.37 ERA in five starts against the -210 favored Yankees.

Utley belted two homers Wednesday night, one of which led off the 11th inning as the Phillies went on to beat the Mets 5-4. He had a solo homer the previous evening in the series opener as Philadelphia lost 6-5.

All three of Utley's homers in this series have been hit into the right-field corner. He didn't homer in his last 15 games at Shea Stadium, where the Mets used to play.

Philadelphia may need a big effort from its lineup with Jamie Moyer facing New York. Moyer is 0-1 with a 13.50 ERA in two starts versus the Mets this season.

Tim Redding will take the mound in this series finale for the Mets.