Stop the Narrative: The Mets won two games in a row! For the first time in what feels like forever, the Mets have one back to back games, won the series and set themselves up to sweep the first place Diamondbacks today at Citi Field. Last night the Mets got a lackluster start for Matz (4 runs over 4.0 innings, but it felt like Matz was pitching better than that to be honest) and the bullpen bailed the Mets out with 5.0 innings allowing only 2 hits and no walks. The Mets bullpen was great at the start of April and has been terrible of late, this was a welcomed change of pace. It allowed Mesoraco to hit a homerun in the 8th to make the game 4-4 and Wilmer “Walk-Off” Flores ended it in the 9th.
Syndergaard looks to build off last night’s momentum and hammer in the win today. He is 3-1 over 9 games and 51.2 innings with a 3.14 ERA, 2.72 FIP, 1.219 WHIP and 122 ERA+. In his last start he allowed 2 runs over 5.0 innings from 2 hits and 2 walks while striking out 7. In his last two starts he has allowed 4 runs over 11.0 innings from 11 hits and 6 walks. The last time Noah faced the Diamondbacks was in back to back starts in 2016 where he allowed 7 runs, 5 earned over 10.2 innings from 15 hits and 3 walks while striking out 14. Arizona has the following numbers against Noah:
- Goldschmidt 2-8, 2B, BB, 4 K
- Lamb 0-8, BB
- Owings 1-9, 2B, 5 K
- Descalso 3-6
- Mathis 0-5
- Peralta 1-4, 2B
- Ahmed 0-3
Clay Buchholz will make his 2018 major league debut today as he has not pitched in more than a year. The long time, and successful, Boston Red Sox pitcher was traded to Philly before the 2017 season, made a couple of starts, had season ending surgery, signed with the Royals, was released by the Royals and recently signed with the Diamondbacks. In the minors this year he has tossed 27.2 innings over 5 games with a 2.93 ERA. Last year he allowed 10 runs from 16 hits in 7.1 innings including his 2017 debut which was against the Mets where the Mets scored 4 runs in 5.0 innings from 8 hits and 2 walks. In his last full season with Boston, he went 8-10 over 37 games and 21 starts logging 139.1 innings with a 4.78 ERA, 5.06 FIP, 1.328 WHIP and 94 ERA+. The Mets have the following numbers against him:
- Reyes 9-34, 2B, 3B, 4 BB
- Cabrera 8-16, 2 2B, 2 HR, 3 BB
- Bruce 1-2
Let’s Go Mets!
