The Mets are home! After a 9 game road trip the Mets return to Citi Field for 9 games. The road was good to the Mets as they went 7-2 and smashed 23 homers over that stretch. Yesterday the Mets had to win without the long ball. They got a strong start from the returning Jacob deGrom and some situational hitting to put the score to 3-1. After some missteps in the 9th inning, they were able to hold off the Braves and complete the sweep by the score of 3-2.
Noah Syndergaard will make his 4th start of the season tonight. So far he is 2-0 over 20.0 innings of work while allowing 15 hits and 4 walks while striking out a whopping 29 batters. That’s a WHIP of 0.950 and he’s leading the league in FIP at 0.77 right now. He was 2-0 over two starts against the Reds last year logging 15.2 innings with a 1.72 ERA. During that time he allowed 10 hits and no walks while striking out 16 batters. The Reds have the following numbers against Noah:
- Phillips 1-7
- Bruce 1-6
- Suarez 1-6
- Votto 0-6
- Barnhart 0-3
- Duvall 0-3
The Reds will kick off the series with Raisel Iglesias who will be making his 5th start of the season. He’s 1-1 over 23.1 innings so far this year posting a 3.09 ERA while allowing 26 hits and 5 walks with 22 strikeouts. In 2015, his rookie season, he went 3-7 over 18 games, 16 starts over 95.1 innings with 1-4 strikeouts while posting a 4.15 ERA. He has never faced the Mets before but Neil Walker has seen him as a Pirate. Walker is 1-5 lifetime against Raisel.
Let’s Go Mets!
