Ike's Radical Home/Road Splits

If you've paid any attention to Mets baseball this year, you probably know that Ike Davis, projected as the team's cleanup hitter before the season, has not been hitting very well. Specifically he's got a .179/.237/.311 slash line, good for just a 54 OPS+, where 100 is league average. But here's the weird thing. In team road games, he's 16-for-57, with four walks, two doubles, and four home runs, including a mammoth one last night. That's a .281/.328/.526 slash line, everything you could ask for (well, except maybe a slightly higher OBP, but that's quibbling compared to his overall numbers) from Ike. Hell, he's driven in 10 runs in 14 games on the road, which extrapolates to a marvelous 116 RBI over the course of a 162-game season. The only trouble is, at Citi Field he's got just three hits, all of them singles, in 49 at-bats. Along with four walks that gives him a .061/.132/.061 line, which is, uh, bad for a pitcher. He's a left-handed first baseman who can hit the ball 500 feet. Not a pitcher. So... what? Why is Ike hitting like Ike when he's not at home, but hitting like Al Leiter when he is? I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. But it's an interesting thing to keep in mind, that in order to return to Ike Davis-esque form he just needs to start hitting at home like he's been hitting on the road.