On paper last night should have been a win. The Mets started the game off with a Brandon Nimmo homer, the Rockies got it back but Jeff McNeil homered to give them a 3-1 lead and later Amed Rosario doubled in a run. Then everything fell apart for Matz and the team couldn’t recover and they fell 9-4 against the Rockies on a night when the Cubs won pushing the Mets to 5.0 games back. The Mets are nearing an insurmountable number of games to come back, but they aren’t out yet.
Marcus Stroman looks to help the Mets get back on track. As a Met he is 2-2 over 8 games and 42.0 innings with a 4.50 ERA, 4.62 FIP, 1.667 WHIP and 91 ERA+. He’s coming off his best start as a Met where he allowed 1 run from 4 hits and 4 walks against the Diamondbacks in 6.1 innings of work. Stroman also already saw the Rockies in Colorado this year in an interleague series when he was a member of the Blue Jays. In that start he allowed 4 runs, 3 earned from 7 hits and no walks over 7.0 innings. The Rockies have the following numbers against Stroman:
- Yonder Alonso 2-13, BB, 4 K
- Nolan Arenado 1-3
- David Dahl 2-3
- Ian Desmond 0-3, K
- Daniel Murphy 1-3, 2B
- Trevor Story 1-3
The Mets bats will get a look a Tim Melville making his 6th start this season. Thanks to waiver wires, Melville has bounced around a lot. He made his debut with the Reds in 2016, then in 2017 he saw major league time with both the Padres and the Twins. These even aren’t all of the clubs that he has signed with over the course of his career. This year he is 2-2 over 5 starts and 22.2 innings with a 5.16 ERA, 6.48 FIP, 1.544 WHIP and a 103 ERA+. Between 2016-2017 he only had 3 starts. Melville is coming off a start where he allowed 5 runs over 3.0 innings which he did earlier this year as well. His three starts where he hasn’t given up 5 runs have been great, so all or nothing in a small sample size this year. He hasn’t faced any Mets in a major league game.
