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Peavy looks to outduel former teammate

Aug 22, 2007 - 1:46 PM San Diego (66-58) at NY Mets (71-53) 7:10 pm EDT

FLUSHING, New York (Ticker) -- After seeing one of their two aces have a rare bad outing, the San Diego Padres will look to rebound from a disappointing loss when they continue their three-game series with the New York Mets on Wednesday.

In the series opener on Tuesday, the Padres saw Chris Young - the major league leader in ERA - allow a run in an outing for just the second time in five games, permitting four over five innings of a 7-6 loss.

Jake Peavy (13-5, 2.19 ERA), who has the second-best ERA in baseball after Young, will look to pick up his teammate and also try to shut down what has been a hot offense lately, as the Mets have scored over seven runs a game in winning six of their last seven contests.

The righthander suffered a hard-luck loss in his last turn on Friday when he yielded a run and four hits over seven innings but could not get much support from his offense in a 3-1 setback to the Houston Astros on Friday. The loss ended a personal four-game winning streak for Peavy, who struck out 11 batters in the contest.

The National League leader in strikeouts with 175, Peavy is 3-2 with a 3.35 ERA in eight lifetime starts against New York.

Opposing Peavy will be ex-teammate Brian Lawrence (1-0, 5.06), who will be facing his former team for the first time since the Padres traded him to the Washington Nationals following the 2005 season. Lawrence spent five seasons with the team, going 49-61 in that time.

In Thursday's 10-7 setback against the Pittsburgh Pirates, the righthander permitted four runs and four hits over five innings. Wednesday will mark Lawrence's fourth start as a Met and will be his 150th career start.