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8:05 pm EDT Wed Aug 18, 2010

The New York Mets have few things to be excited about. R.A. Dickey is one of them. The knuckleballer returns to the mound for the first time since tossing a one-hitter as the visiting Mets face the Houston Astros on Wednesday night. New York slipped to 11-20 since the All-Star break with a 4-3 loss to Houston on Tuesday, hours after it placed closer Francisco Rodriguez on the disqualified list. The team is withholding Rodriguez’s pay after he suffered a season-ending thumb injury while punching his girlfriend’s father last week at Citi Field. Rodriguez was charged with third-degree assault.

Wright homered Tuesday, but New York failed to score more than three runs for the fifth consecutive game. Since the All-Star break, the Mets are batting .213 while scoring a major league-low 87 runs. That’s a big reason why Dickey is 2-3 despite a 1.96 ERA in seven second-half starts, the best of which came Friday night against Philadelphia. The 35-year-old right-hander pitched his second career shutout, allowing only a sixth-inning single by pitcher Cole Hamels in a 1-0 win. Dickey hopes to quiet a Houston club that has totaled 17 extra-base hits in the last four games, including four doubles and three home runs by Hunter Pence. The right fielder drove in all of the Astros’ runs with two homers in Tuesday’s win, the 10th for Houston in its last 13 home games.