The Mets beat the Nationals last night! Now the Mets look to split the series today, assuming they lose both games on Sunday. Anyway for a second straight game yesterday the Mets lost a key player of their offense early to injury, this time it was Cespedes. The Mets they rode out a stellar start by Jacob deGrom. This afternoon Robert Gsellman will look to feed off that magic as he faces Gio Gonzalez.
Gsellman is 5-5 over 19 games, 16 starts and 87.2 innings with a 5.65 ERA, 5.02 FIP and 1.551 WHIP. Gsellman is coming off his best start since June 10th. Last time out he held the Diamondbacks to 1 run off 5 hits and a walk in 6.1 innings of work. His last start against the Nationals was pretty terrible as he allowed 7 runs off 11 hits and 2 walks in 5.0 innings. The Nationals have the following numbers against Robert:
- Murphy 5-8, 3B
- Rendon 3-7, 2 2B
- Zimmerman 4-7, BB
- Taylor 1-3, HR
- Wieters 1-3, 2B
The Mets bats draw Gio Gonzalez in the midst of his best season (by ERA) of his career. He is 12-5 over 25 starts and 162.0 innings with a 2.39 ERA, 3.80 FIP and 1.117 WHIP. It’s actually amazing that his FIP is higher than it has been since his third season pitching yet his ERA is so low. In his last four starts he has allowed 2 runs, 1 earned over 27.2 innings with 15 hits and 7 walks while striking out 23. His ERA is a 0.33 and opponents are getting on base at .229 clip. He is at his best right now. He has also been successful against the Mets this year allowing 3 runs over 13.1 innings from only 7 hits and 3 walks. The Mets have the following numbers against him:
- Lagares 15-40, 3 2B, 3B, HR, BB
- Cabrera 7-29, BB
- Flores 2-20, 2 BB
- d’Arnaud 3-16, 3 2B, BB
- Cespedes 🙁 7-13, 2B, 2 HR, 2 BB (1.677 OPS)
- Plawecki 0-5
- Gsellman 0-1
Let’s Go Mets!
