The Mets are trying to flip the script today from last weekend as they look to complete the sweep against the Washington Nationals. In the first game of the series, the Mets and Nationals flipped-flopped the lead for a bit before the Mets took a 7-3 lead and then held it together through a bases loaded / no outs in the 9th inning to win 7-5. Yesterday, despite the Nationals taking an early 1-0 lead, Conforto carried the Mets on two homers and the Mets won 5-3 on an uncomfortably hot day. The weather didn’t deter Familia who got over his performance the previous night and locked it down.
The Mets will be calling on Noah Syndergaard today, who has had an interesting week. With the rain-out on Tuesday, he was slated to go Wednesday and the Mets would skip Gsellman. Then the Mets pushed him to Thursday and before game time it was revealed he was suffering through biceps tendinitis and Harvey made the start instead. Syndergaard tossed on Friday and got the green light to go, so here we are! On the season he is 1-1 over 4 starts with a 1.73 ERA in 26.0 innings of work with no walks and 30 strikeouts. He is coming off of his worst start of the season where he allowed 5 runs, 3 earned in 7.0 innings against the Phillies. This will also be his first start in 2017 against the Nationals. Last year he was 1-3 over 5 starts and 28.2 innings against them with a 3.45 ERA. The Nationals have the following numbers against Noah:
- Harper 5-18, 2B
- Rendon 6-19, 2B, HR
- Werth 2-17
- Murphy 3-12, 2 2B
- Zimmerman 2-11, 2 2B
- Lobaton 1-6
- Taylor 1-6
- Turner 1-6
- Lind 1-3
The Mets bats will contend with Joe Ross who is 1-0 this season over 2 starts and 11.2 innings allowing 8 ER, 3 walks with 9 strikeouts. It is worth nothing that his numbers may be skewed because this will only be his third start this season and his bad start, his last one, was in Colorado. Before that he allowed 3 ER over 7.0 innings against Atlanta. He was 1-0 in as many starts against the Mets last year despite allowing 4 ER and 10 hits over 6.0 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against Ross:
- Granderson 3-10
- Walker 2-5, HR
- d’Arnaud 2-5
- Bruce 1-3
- Cabrera 0-2
- Plawecki 0-3
- Lagares 1-2
Let’s Go Mets!
