Only six pitchers age 37 or older have started a game this season, according to baseball-reference.com.com
It was the lowest in the order he had started a game since 2003, his rookie year with Texas.
Incredibly, it was the first time Cone had started a game at Shea since the Mets traded him to the Toronto Blue Jays on Aug. 27, 1992.
As awful as they often are at home Poyet's players can rarely have started a game as badly as this.
It had been 18 days since Garcia, who had pitched an inning of relief against the Boston Red Sox last Sunday, had started a game (the exhibition finale on March 29), and the miserable forecast Saturday threatened to delay him further.
This was the first time that Suárez had started a game since he was barred for eight matches for repeatedly calling Evra racist names when they competed against each other last October.
At the end of which he has played a major role in back-to-back defensive performances of the highest calibre despite not having started a game for Chelsea since January.
The midfielder had started a game against Reading poorly but responded to the criticism by becoming the second Spaniard to score a Premier League hat-trick, as Wigan came back to win 3-2.
The last time Pederson had started a game without striking out at least once: June 19.
As a result, Michigan began the season with only one offensive lineman, offensive tackle Jon Jansen, who had started a game.
