The Mets and Nationals started a game last night despite the wall of thunderstorms moving across the state of New Jersey. Generally, storms like last night weaken as they travel across the state, but that did not happen last night and once they hit Citi Field it was over.
As the skies were darkening over Citi Field, the Nationals took and early 3-run lead against the Mets, hitting a homer against Carrasco. The Mets were able to scratch a run back in the bottom of the first off of back to back doubles by Alonso and Smith. At this point the rain was really coming down but for some reason play was allowed to continue into the start of the 2nd inning with the Nationals getting a lead off hit.
This will be a 9-inning game today followed by a 7-inning game, which is the league policy when one game gets suspended due to rain (the Mets have a similar situation coming up on August 31st).
Rich Hill will get the start for the suspended game today. Overall this year he has made 22 starts and pitched 110.1 innings with a 3.92 ERA. As a Met he has made 3 starts and pitched 15.0 innings with a 4.20 ERA, 5.44 FIP, 1.133 WHIP and a 62 ERA+. His last start was his best by far as a Met where he allowed 1 run, unearned, over 5.0 innings holding the Marlins to only 3 hits. But the Mets offense couldn’t help Rich out.
Joe Ross will be resuming the game for the Nationals. He has made 19 starts and pitched 103.0 innings this year with a 4.02 ERA, 4.43 FIP, 1.214 WHIP and a 96 ERA+. In his last two starts he has allowed 8 runs, 7 earned, over 10.2 innings. Joe’s two starts against the Mets this year have been quite different. In his first start he allowed only 1 run over 6.0 innings. In his next start he allowed 5 runs, 4 earned, over 4.1 innings. This season Michael Conforto has homered off of Ross and Francisco Lindor (who is obviously not playing today) has hit two homers off of him.
