The Mets and Brewers play two today because the weather didn’t cooperate last night at Citi Field. About 2.5 hours after the scheduled start to the game, the Mets decided they wouldn’t be able to get last night’s game in and called it off. This sets the Mets up for a series of decisions with regards to Jacob deGrom. Depending on how today’s game goes – should he pitch on short rest on Sunday? If deGrom doesn’t pitch on Sunday on short rest, should he pitch in the All-Star game this week?
Let’s just focus on today right now.
Jacob, now a 4-time All Star, has pitched 14 games and 85.0 innings with a 0.95 ERA, 0.99 FIP, 0.541 WHIP, and a 402 ERA+. He leads the league in ERA, FIP, WHIP, ERA+, H/9, HR/9, BB/9, K/9 and K/BB. Go look at his Baseball Reference page with all the bold, italics stats, its super impressive. Jacob is coming off a rough game that would be a good game for anyone else where he allowed 3 runs off 5 hits and no walks in 7.0 innings while striking out 14 batters. All the runs came in the first inning. The Brewers have the following numbers against deGrom:
- Christian Yelich 15-34, 2 2B, 3 BB, 6 K, 5 SB
- Manny Pina 2-6, 2B, K
- Willy Adames 1-6, HR, 4 K
- Daniel Robertson 1-3, K
- Jace Peterson 5-21, 2 2B, BB, 5 K
- Jackie Bradley Jr. 1-8, 5 K
- Luis Urias 0-3
The Mets bats will face another All-Star from the Brewers today – Corbin Burnes. In 14 games and 82.0 innings, Burnes has a 2.41 ERA, 1.44 FIP, 0.902 WHIP and a 170 ERA+. In his last two starts he has allowed 2 runs from 7 hits and 3 walks from 13.1 innings. In the two starts before that he allowed 8 runs, 7 earned, from 9.1 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against Burnes:
- Jose Peraza 1-1
- Pete Alonso 1-1
- Kevin Pillar 0-2
- Francisco Lindor 0-3, K
- Jeff McNeil 0-1
- Michael Conforto 0-1
- James McCann 0-1
Let’s Go Mets!
