Dickey Ks career high for sixth win: Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey had one of his better outings of the season on Tuesday night against the Pirates. He allowed one run on five hits over seven innings in the 3-2 win. The knuckleballer made it through his first five frames unscathed before giving up a sac fly to Andrew McCutchen in the sixth. He was done after throwing 88 pitches, 67 for strikes, and left with the game tied at 1-1 but luckily his teammates scored two runs in the top of the eighth. Dickey also struck out a career-high 11 with no walks while earning his sixth win of the season. "That's the best knuckleball I had all season," Dickey said. "After the first two times through the order, I contemplated pitching more traditionally so they wouldn't sit on the knuckler. The pitch was so good, though, that I decided to keep throwing it." (Updated 05/22/2012)
Injury Report
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Fantasy Analysis
Dickey has now gone 4-0 with a 2.47 ERA in his last six outings and has 36 strikeouts in 40 innings pitched over that span. He has allowed more than three earned runs in just one start thus far and is on pace for another productive campaign. Keep the 37-year-old active in deeper mixed leagues heading into his second start of Week 8 (May 21-27). He is scheduled to pitch again on Sunday against the Padres. In two starts against San Diego a year ago, Dickey went 0-1 with a 4.38 ERA. (Updated 05/22/2012).
05/23/2012 17:56 Dickey is being added at a high rate
R.A. Dickey struck out a career high 11 batters in his last time out. Should you follow other CBSSports.com fantasy owners and start adding him to your roster? The Fantasy Baseball 360 crew weighs in.
05/23/2012 00:59 The Lineup: Wainwright wows, Cubs crater
St. Louis got reacquainted with an old friend, the Cubs reached new depths, and a certain Met and a certain Brave enjoyed career nights. Oh, and get ready for Cole and Bryce, Part II.
05/22/2012 21:59 Mets back dominant Dickey vs. Bucs
Lucas Duda smacked a go-ahead RBI single in the top of the eighth in support of starter R.A. Dickey and the New York Mets edged the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 on Tuesday night.
05/20/2012 16:40 Yankees suffer fifth loss in six games
Johnny Cueto pitched effectively into the eighth inning, Ryan Ludwick delivered two big hits and the Cincinnati Reds closed out their extended visit to New York by beating the Yankees 5-2 Sunday.
R.A. Dickey isn't supposed to be good. He's a 37-year-old journeyman whose bread-and-butter pitch -- the knuckleball -- only recently entered his repertoire. But in the short period of time that he has relied on the gimmick as a means of survival, he has managed to do with it what few lifelong knuckleballers have: throw strikes. He issued 2.3 walks per nine innings last year -- a mark that Tim Wakefield has reached only once in 19 seasons and that Hall of Famer Phil Niekro didn't reach in any of his final 15. And that number was even better for Dickey in 2010. He actually struggled with his control early last year, but once he found it, he was able to breeze through every lineup he faced, allowing no more than four earned runs in any of his final 24 starts for a 2.69 ERA during that stretch. Yet despite that success, chances are he'll go undrafted in mixed leagues again because of his age, sub-.500 record and less-than-stellar strikeout rate. Don't make the mistake of underestimating him. If this year goes the way the last two have, the Fantasy owner who takes a flier on Dickey late will have little cause to bench him over the course of the season. (Updated 1/11/12)
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