Mets' Bartolo Colon: Tosses seven efficient frames, beats Brewers

Colon (5-3) held the Brewers to a single run on eight hits over seven innings in Thursday's win, striking out two without a walk.

Analysis:

This right here is your typical Colon outing, albeit with a bit more length -- few walks, few strikeouts, and a ton of balls in play. Often, that works to his advantage; sometimes, the batted-ball luck works against him. This was one of the better ones, thanks in no small part to Colon himself initiating a pair of double plays as well as a pickoff. In fact, he's allowed two or fewer runs in four consecutive outings since a patch of mid-May struggles. That said, Colon's shiny 3.08 ERA is going to be awfully hard to maintain -- his 1.22 WHIP is nearly identical to the last two seasons, and he ended up with an ERA north of 4.00 in each of those campaigns. Major League Baseball's oldest active player is also sitting on the highest rates of line drives and hard-hit balls in his career, suggesting that Colon's standard-looking .299 BABIP is in fact likely to head north as the season wears on.