The Mets look to end their two game skid tonight as they take on the Giants for game two of the series. After Sunday’s loss in Los Angeles, the Mets fell flat Monday in San Francisco only collecting four hits, all recorded by Starling Marte and Pete Alonso. The Giants offense scored four runs over the first three innings and never looked back.
On the line tonight is the Mets series win streak, a loss tonight will clinch the Mets first losing series since they lost to the Tigers the second series of the season.
Luis Severino looks to get the Mets back on the winning track this evening. Over four starts (21 innings) he has a 2.14 ERA, 3.73 FIP, 1.381 WHIP and a 189 ERA+. In his last two starts he has allowed only two runs, one earned, from six hits and seven walks while striking out eight. This is compared to 14 hits and two walks over his first two starts this season which led to eight total runs. The Giants have the following career numbers against Severino:
- Matt Chapman 1-13, 2 BB, 4 K
- Michael Conforto 0-8, BB, 4 K
- Wilmer Flores 0-4, 3 K
- Jorge Soler 1-3
The Mets will have to figure themselves out against Logan Webb. Over five starts (30 2/3 innings) Webb has a 2.93 ERA, 2.88 FIP, 1.174 WHIP and a 138 ERA+. He’s been even better in his last two starts where he allowed only one earned run over 14 innings while striking out nine in 14 innings of work. He’s coming off a season where he had a 3.25 ERA over a league leading 216 innings pitched.
Logan Webb faced the Mets exactly one year and one day ago. He held the Mets to two runs from five hits over seven innings on his way to his first win of the season. The Mets have the following career numbers against Webb:
- Pete Alonso 1-11, HR, BB, 5 K
- Harrison Bader 2-4, 2 BB
- Brett Baty 0-2, 2 K
- Francisco Lindor 2-7, 2B, 2 K
- Starling Marte 4-11, K
- Jeff McNeil 2-9, 2B, BB, K
- Omar Narváez 0-5, K
- Tomás Nido 1-6
- Brandon Nimmo 1-11, HR, BB, 3 K
- Tyrone Taylor 0-4, BB, 2 K
- Joey Wendle 0-3, 2 BB
Three Things To Watch For:
- Middle of the night milestone? Pete Alonso hit his 199th career homerun Monday night, putting him just one away from 200 for his career. Alonso hit six homers over the first 14 games of the season. Before he hit homer 199, he was in a seven game home run drought where he went 4-for-26 at the plate. Hopefully the two hits last night gets his bat going again.
- The back of the bullpen is ready to go. Between the lopsided game on Sunday and Monday’s lost, several key Mets pitchers in the bullpen have had a lot of rest. Adam Ottavino and Jake Diekman last pitched on Friday night. Edwin Díaz and Reed Garrett last pitched on Saturday. Overall the Mets bullpen is still putting in a lot of work as Mets starters have not been able to pitch beyond five innings recently, let alone six.
- The back of the Giants bullpen on the other hand may not be ready to go. Camilo Doval had a rough ninth inning closing the door in Monday night’s game, allowing a run and walk, leading to 27 pitches thrown. He has now thrown 43 pitches over the last three calendar days. The setup man, Tyler Rogers, has thrown 21 pitches over the last three calendar days split over two games. If the Mets can knock Logan Webb out early tonight it could prove helpful both today’s game and tomorrow.
Let’s Go Mets!
