The Mets are back!
On Tuesday night the Mets looked sluggish after the second inning with flat at bats and shotty defense. Wednesday night was more like the Mets we’ve seen for the better part of the week. They racked up hits, answered the Marlins when they scored runs and the bullpen looked good! Overall the Mets racked up 14 hits with four hits having two or more hits including Tyrone Taylor who went 4-for-5 with a run scored.
Now the Mets have a chance to win another series! Let’s go!
Luis Severino has made 12 starts totaling 72 innings this season with a 3.25 ERA, 3.73 FIP, 1.139 WHIP and a 118 ERA+. He’s coming off of a tremendous start against the Nationals where he he held them to one run from seven hits and no walks over eight innings. It was the second time in his last three starts where he pitched at least seven innings allowing one run.
The Marlins got to Severino in mid-May scoring five runs from six hits and three walks over 6 2/3 innings. They have the following career numbers against him:
- Tim Anderson 5-17, 5 K
- Josh Bell 1-3
- Christian Bethancourt 0-2, 2 K
- Vidal Bruan 0-4, BB
- Jake Burger 2-6, 2B, HR, K
- Jazz Chisholm Jr. 2-4, HR
- Bryan De La Cruz 0-3, K
- Nick Fortes 0-3, K
- Nick Gordon 2-2, 2B, BB
- Otto Lopez 1-3, 2B
- Emmanuel Rivera 0-3, 2 K
- Jesús Sánchez 0-2, BB, K
Roddery Muñoz is making the fifth start in his rookie season tonight. Over his first four games he has a 5.95 ERA, 7.88 FIP, 1.424 WHIP and a 73 ERA+ over 19 2/3 innings. Muñoz’s first two starts win the majors were fine, allowing three runs over 11 innings. Since then he has allowed 10 runs over 8 2/3. He has also pitched in eight games in Jacksonville, the Marlins AAA team, totaling 41 innings with a 5.49 ERA and a 1.293 WHIP.
Three Things To Watch For:
- Fielding Wins Games. The Mets fielding was suspect on Tuesday night with multiple errors and multiple plays that just looked off. The Marlins fielding Wednesday night was worse – weird paths to flyballs, throwing errors. The Tuesday Mets and the Wednesday Marlins just made things look difficult.
- Hitting with runners in scoring position. When things were going poorly for the Mets in May, we kept talking about how the Mets were either not getting hits, not hitting with runners in scoring position, or both. Wednesday night the Mets got 14 hits and more importantly went 6-for-13 with runners in scoring position. This relentless is what the Mets need to start chipping away at the long list of teams they are chasing for the Wild Card.
- Starling Marte’s hot streak. Marte extended the streak he is on by another game on Wednesday night going 2-for-4 with a homerun and two runs scored. In his last nine games he has gone 16-for-34 with a double, two triples, a homer and eight runs scored while hitting .471/.526/.706. His season OPS over this stretch has gone from .690 to .774!
Let’s Go Mets!
