The Mets play the Astros again today. How surprising.
Anyway, the Mets finally picked up their second win of Spring yesterday as they rounded out their first full week playing baseball this year. Highlights so far have included two positive starts by Porcello, Brad Brach looking good in outings so far, Gimenez showing hitting skills in addition to flashing leather and Brandon Nimmo exclaiming to the camera “sun ball double!”.
Yesterday’s Reacap:
As mentioned earlier, the Mets actually won a game yesterday! It was the second straight game for the Mets where no one collected two hits. Gimenez had the biggest hit of the game, a homer that would end up being the deciding run. This is after he roped a double the night before – really positive signs. Mazeika who came in to DH after Cano went 1-2 with a double, his third double of the spring as he continues to have a quiet, strong start to 2020. His small sample size OPS is 1.570 right now.
On the mound Stroman gave up a homer, his only real blemish in 2.0 innings of work. He was followed up by a clean inning of relief from Blackham, a Familia inning of no runs but a hit and a walk (so in character), a clean inning with two strikeouts from from Zamora, a clean inning from Sewald and a shutout inning for Gilliam. Gilliam has had a rough week so it was nice to see him successful.
On the Mound Today:
Steven Matz makes his second start this spring. He’s competing with Michael Wacha and Rick Porcello for a roster spot. Porcello has already had 2 starts where he has allowed 1 run over 3.0 innings and Wacha was also impressive in his Spring debut. Matz allowed a solo homer and that’s it in his first inning of work last weekend. We expect to see him out there for about 2.0 innings today.
After Matz today is a prospect lover’s dream lineup. David Peterson, Franklyn Kilome and Jordan Humphreys are all scheduled to pitch today. Peterson allowed a hit and nothing in else in his spring training debut this week. Kilome’s did not got as well, allowed two runs off two hits, including a homer in his first inning of work. Humphreys allowed 1 run off two hits in his first spring inning also.
There’s a lot to watch for today! Let’s Go Mets!
