The Mets will complete their three game set with the Cubs today before heading out to San Francisco, their last leg of this long road trip. For the second game in a row yesterday the Mets suffered a heartbreaking, close loss. This time, the offense jumped out early, but the pitching couldn’t support the effort. Today, deGrom will get the start for the Mets as he faces off against Travis Wood.
Jacob deGrom is 0-2 in his first four starts of his major league career with a 2.42 ERA over 26.0 innings while walking 12 and striking out 25 batters. The pattern over his first four starts has been excellent start, average start, excellent start, average start, at least in terms of earned runs. What wasn’t average his last time out was his strikeouts as he mowed down 11 i the game while allowing only 2 walks. Of course, it follows that deGrom has not faced the Cubs yet in his career or anyone on the Mets roster.
Travis Wood is 5-5 over 11 starts this year over 64.2 innings with a 5.15 ERA, a drastic increase over last years 3.11 mark. He started to gather some momentum in late May with back to back starts of at least 7.0 innings and allowing only 2 ER but in his last start he allowed 7 ER over 2.2 innings. That has been the story of this season for him, he has either been terrible or good. Only one average start. He faced the Mets once last year allowing 5 hits and 3 earned runs over 7.0 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against Travis:
- Tejada 1-11
- Wright 4-12, 3B
- C Young 3-11, 2B
- Duda 2-9, HR
- Granderson 0-3
- Murphy 0-3
- Recker 0-3
Lets Go Mets!
