Those of us who live in the tri-state area started to get warnings on Sunday about how bad the weather was going to be yesterday afternoon and evening. I’m a teacher in Newark and we cancelled all afternoon activities. Around the same time, the Mets cancelled the game. Anecdotally, it seems the strength of the storms varied greatly where you live.
The baseball result is the Mets and Cardinals will now play four games over a compact three days. The Mets, with the possibility of more bad weather looming over the weekend, are still going to use Trevor Williams today bring in a 27th man for the bullpen.
Trevor Williams has pitched 11 innings this year over five games and a start with a 5.73 ERA, 3.19 FIP, 1.636 WHIP and a 70 ERA+. In his one start against the Diamond backs towards the end of May, he allowed four runs from seven hits in two innings. Since that game, he has only been used in long relief outings. He’s pitched 3 2/3 innings twice. First against the Braves where he allowed three runs from three hits. Then against the Nationals after Megill’s last start where he allowed no runs and only two hits. Overall in these last three games he has gone from 62 pitches, to 53 to 51, which gives us an idea of where his ceiling will be tonight (in his previous two games he tossed 21 and 16 pitches respectively). The Cardinals have the following numbers against him:
- Yadier Molina 10-30, 4 2B, 7 K
- Paul DeJong 7-21, 3 2B, HR, 2 BB, 6 K
- Paul Goldschmidt 7-22, 2B, HR, BB, 4 K
- Harrison Bader 6-14, 2B, 4 K
- Tyler O’Neill 3-12, HR, BB, 4 K
- Tommy Edman 3-12, K
- Nolan Arenado 4-9, 2 HR
- Dylan Carlson 1-3, 2B
- Corey Dickerson 2-3
The Mets bats draw Miles Mikolas who is off to a career start this year. Over seven games and 42 1/3 innings, Miles has a 1.49 ERA, 2.96 FIP, 0.945 WHIP and a 257 ERA+. He’s allowed two runs in two starts this season, every other start has allowed one run or less and this includes a start against the Mets where he shut the Mets out over seven innings holding them to only four hits. The Mets have the following career numbers against him:
- Starling Marte 5-35, 2B, 2 BB, 6 K
- Eduardo Escobar 1-9, 2 K
- Pete Alonso 2-7
- Brandon Nimmo 0-6, BB, 2 K
- Travis Jankowski 0-6
- Jeff McNeil 2-5, 2B, BB, K
- Mark Canha 0-1, BB
- J.D. Davis 0-3
- Francisco Lindor 0-3
- Dominic Smith 0-1, K
Let’s Go Mets!
