The Subway Series comes home tonight. The first two games of the home and home series have been forgettable for the Mets (unless you are Dom Smith, congrats on your first major league homer!) as the Mets have dropped both. If the Mets want to split the series for bragging rights, they will have to do it by sweeping the Yankees in Queens.
Originally Seth Lugo was going to pitch tonight but he just landed himself on the DL. Luckily, Robert Gsellman is good to go and he comes off the DL for tonight’s start. Before he left he was 5-5 over 17 games, 14 starts in 76.0 innings with a 6.16 ERA, 5.08 FIP and 1.618 WHIP. We haven’t seen him since the end of June when things were unraveling for him rather quickly. Including the game he was removed in the 3rd inning from, he allowed 18 runs over 12.1 innings. The only person on the Yankees roster who has seen him in a major league game is Jaime Garcia, the starter for the Yankees, who will be batting tonight. Garcia walked in his only appearance against Gsellman.
The Mets draw a long time National Leaguer in Jaime Garcia tonight who spent the vast majority of his career with the Cardinals and started this year with the Braves. He got traded and made a start with the Twins before being traded again to the Yankees. Overall this year he is 5-8 over 21 games and 130.0 innings with a 4.50 ERA, 4.16 FIP and 1.377 WHIP. He is 0-1 over 2 starts and 10.1 innings with Yankees posting a 6.97 ERA, 5.75 FIP and 1.839 WHIP. He opened his 2017 season against the Mets allowing 4 ER over 6.0 innings off 6 hits and 2 walks. In June he faced the Mets again and allowed 2 runs over 7.0 innings of 7 hits and 2 walks. The Mets have the following numbers against him:
- Reyes 7-24, 2B, 2 BB
- Flores 4-12, 2B, 2 HR
- Cabrera 3-11, 2 2B
- Lagares 2-6, 2 BB
- Cespedes 1-7, 2B, BB
- d’Arnaud 2-6, 2B
- Conforto 2-4, 2B
- Granderson 1-3
Let’s Go Mets!
