The Mets made up for all of their disappointing play against the Orioles last night beating the birds 16-5 in Baltimore. The most surprising part of the score – only three homers (Frazier, Plawecki, Flores) in a homer friendly ballpark, this game was the Mets just pouring on hits including a 4 hit day from Frazier who is has been turning it on in the last couple of days and a 5 hit, 3 run day from Brandon Nimmo. Now the Mets head to Philly to play a double header with the first game being a Facebook only game (how great. so exciting. great idea major league baseball).
Corey Oswalt is 1-2 over 8 games and 7 starts pitching 39.1 innings with a 5.03 ERA, 5.06 FIP, 1.068 WHIP and 75 ERA+. In both August starts he has allowed 3 runs off 6.0 innings while allowing 1 or fewer walks. The Mets have lost both games. Back in July, in the second game of a double header, he faced the Phillies where he held them to 3 runs over 6.0 innings but this was the game that doesn’t make sense from a stat line perspective. The only hit he gave up was a bases loaded, bases clearing double to the pitcher. He was perfect for a while in that game. The Phillies have the following numbers against Oswlat:
- Hernandez 0-3
- Hoskins 0-3
- Santana 0-2, BB
- Williams 0-3
- Alfaro 0-2
- Bour 1-2
- Altherr 0-1, BB
- Nola 1-2, 2B
Oswalt and the Mets will face off against rookie Ranger Suarez who is making his second career start. In his last outing, he got the win after allowing 4 runs off 6 hits and a walk in 5.0 innings while striking out 3. In AA and AAA this year he was 6-3 over 18 games and 106.0 innings with a 2.89 ERA. In 2016 his ERA was 2.81 over 73.2 innings and in 2017 it was 2.27 in 122.2 innings, so this is a trend.
Let’s Go Mets!
