After giving up a ton of runs without scoring much over the last two games, the Mets were able to win in convincing fashion yesterday taking the rubber game and splitting the series with the Cardinals. Yesterday deGrom provided a classic performance and Lucas Duda smashed two homers posting 4 RBI’s. Today’s game against the Pirates will get a lot of extra attention since Dillon Gee is ready to come back from the minors, so what happens to the Mets rotation?
Noah Syndergaard will be making this third start of the season, so far he is 1-1 over 11.1 innings with a 3.18 ERA while striking out 11 batters. In his last start he pitched 6.0 innings allowing only earned run and 3 hits while walking 1 and striking out 5. This being his third start, he has no major league battery record with the Pirates or anyone on the Pirates roster. Interestingly, due to the construction of the Mets schedule this year, he has only started against teams in the NL Central so far this year.
The Mets bats draw Gerrit Cole who is 5-2 on the season over 8 starts and 48.2 innings with a 2.40 ERA. In the month of May he has been slightly more human with a 1-2 record over 18.0 innings striking out 18 batters with a 3.50 ERA. His one start against the Mets last year wasn’t good as he allowed 5 ER over 7 hits in 4.0 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against Gerrit:
- Murphy 1-6
- Duda 1-3
- Granderson 0-2
- Tejada 1-2
- Campbell 1-2, 2B
- Recker 1-2, 2B
Lets Go Mets!
