It’s the Subway Series! This week the Mets and Yankees play a four game, home and home series starting in the Bronx and ending in Queens. The Mets are coming off of a series win Philly where they took 3 of 4 games largely thanks to Conforto who is pushing towards 30 homers for the year.
Rafael Montero will get the start for the Mets tonight. He is 1-8 over 23 games and 9 starts totaling 65.1 innings with a 6.06 ERA, 4.64 FIP and 1.806 WHIP. The last three starts have not been kind to Montero who has allowed 13 runs and 18 hits with 9 walks in 13.1 innings. The Yankees roster looks quite different since Montero has last faced them, so only two players have seen him a game. Ellsbury is 0-2 with a walk against him while Gardner is 1-3.
The Mets draw Luis Cessa for the opener who is 0-3 over 9 games and 4 starts over 31.2 innings with a 4.83 ERA, 5.41 FIP and 1.484 WHIP. Tonight will be Cessa’s first start since Jthe end of June. When he was a starter he allowed 13 runs, 11 earned over 17.0 innings with 17 hits and 7 walks. he’s coming off a shutout, 3.1 inning outing where he allowed only 1 hit but still walked 4 batters. Prior to that he allowed 6 runs over 4.2 innings. He has never faced the Mets before and no one on the Mets has seen him at the major league level.
Let’s Go Mets!
