The 2015 NL East Champion New York Mets are back on the grind this afternoon as they look to complete the four game sweep of the Reds. Yesterday the Mets jumped out to an early lead thanks to a Grand Slam from Lucas Duda, expanded their lead with a homer from Curtis Granderson and put the game away late with a three run homer from the Captain David Wright. Harvey surprised everyone by pitching into the 7th inning and the Mets won the division, celebrated and now look to finish out strong, getting some rest along the way and maybe a home field advantage for the NLDS.
Jacob deGrom returns to the bump today. He’s 13-8 over 28 starts and 181.0 innings with a 2.64 ERA with 189 strikeouts. Miami hit him hard in his last start as he gave up 10 hits and 6 ER over 10 innings. He missed the Reds this season and he missed them last year. He also hasn’t faced anyone on the Reds roster while they were with other teams so this will be a new experience today.
As you have probably heard fifty times over the first three games if you were tuning in, the Reds are running a rookie out there everyday to start. Today is Keyvius Sampson’s turn, who is 2-5 over 11 games, 10 starts with a 6.45 ERA over 44.2 innings. He’s coming off one of his better starts of the season where he held the Cardinals to 1 ER over 5.1 innings. In his previous three September starts he allowed 12 runs, 11 earned in 11.1 innings. He has never faced the Mets or anyone on the Mets lineup before.
Let’s Go Mets!
