Recapping Yesterday:
The game last night was made for prime time. Jacob deGrom. Zack Grienke. Evening spring training game. It would have been perfect. But the Astros don’t have TV broadcast support set up yet down in Florida. We ended up missing a really good one for the Mets. Mets pitchers combined to throw 9.0 innings allowing 1 hit, 2 walks and struck out 17 batters. Jacob deGrom started everything off with 3 perfect innings with 7 K’s (and reached 102 with a fastball!). He looked great. Mike Montgomery, trying to break his way into the Mets roster, followed with 4 K’s over 2.0 innings. Barnes had a bounce back performance and Zamora allowed 2 walks, but no hits and no runs as he continues to have a great spring.
The Mets offense, despite using a lineup close to their starting lineup, was mostly silent. Brandon Nimmo collected two hits and raised his OPS in Spring to 1.263. Pete Alonso hit another homer in spring, raising his OPS to (an identical to Nimmo’s) 1.263.
What We are Watching For Today
The Mets have their first day game after a night game today! (Their previous 6 PM start, also against the Astros, was moved up to 1 PM for weather reasons last Saturday). One important thing to note, we actually can watch today’s game as SNY will be carrying it.
Marcus Stroman gets the start today. In two games so far this spring he has allowed 2 runs off 3 hits in 5.0 innings while walking 1 and striking out 4. The runs came from one inning of work last time out and besides that inning, he’s looked great. Lots of movement on his pitches.
Scheduled to follow are Dellin Betances, Aaron Loup, Joey Lucchesi, Drew Smith, Tommy Hunter, Stephen Nogosek and Trevor Hildenberger (who was sent to minors camp earlier in the week). Betances is still looking to find his stuff this spring. Joey Lucchesi is competing for the fifth starting spot against Peterson and Yamamoto (and others). This will be Loup’s third game this spring. So far he has allowed 2 hits and an unearned run while striking out 2.
Let’s Go Mets!
