Tuesday, June 25, 2019 • 7:05 p.m.
Citizens Bank Park • Philadelphia, PA
RHP Walker Lockett (0-1, 23.14) vs. RHP Jake Arrieta (6-6, 4.12)
SNY • MLBN • WCBS 880 AM • ESPN 1050 AM
Yesterday was a disaster for the Mets anyway you cut it. Before the game, Callaway held his normal press conference before a series and walked around giving a direct public apology. About an hour or so later, he called back the press to give a direct apology but in the vein of “I got feedback for not giving a proper apology before so here you go.”
The Mets then played the Phillies and both teams were hitting homers like crazy (or normal in a juiced ball era – Citizens Bank Park). While the Mets were imploding during the sixth inning a new story about the Mets hit Twitter. Allegedly BVW has at least once made a managerial decision from his home and relayed it to the dugout. Banner day for the team from Queens.
Mets Lineup
- Jeff McNeil – RF
- Pete Alonso – 1B
- Robinson Cano – 2B
- Michael Conforto – CF
- Todd Frazier – 3B
- Dominic Smith – LF
- Wilson Ramos – C
- Amed Rosario – SS
- Walker Lockett – RHP
Phillies Lineup
- Scott Kingery – CF
- Jean Segura – SS
- Bryce Harper – RF
- Rhys Hoskins – 1B
- J.T. Realmuto – C
- Jay Bruce – LF
- Cesar Hernandez – 2B
- Maikel Franco – 3B
- Jake Arrieta – RHP
The Mets will try to make us forget all this tonight with Walker Lockett. His last outing ended in disaster and he allowed six runs over 2.1 innings of work. The ball popped off opponents bats, he was locked out of the game by a poor bullpen performance behind him and the Mets just dropped the game. He made one start against the Phillies last year and it was pretty bad. He allowed five runs off five hits and two walks in 4.1 innings. The Phillies have the following numbers against him:
- Cesar Hernandez 1-2, HR, BB
- Rhys Hoskins 1-3
- Maikel Franco 1-2, HR
- Nick Williams 1-1, 3B, BB
The Mets’ bats draw Jake Arrieta today who is 6-6 over 15 games and 91.2 innings with a 4.12 ERA, 5.03 FIP, 1.385 WHIP, and 109 ERA+. He’s coming off a good start where he allowed one run over six innings against the Nationals which followed a stretch of three starts where he allowed 13 runs over 15.2 innings. He had two different, back to back starts against the Mets back in April. First, he shut them down to two runs over eight innings. The next week he allowed four runs, three earned, over six innings. The Mets have the following numbers against him:
- Robinson Cano 5-25, 2 2B, 4 BB, 5 K
- Todd Frazier 8-26, 2B, 2 HR, 10 K
- Michael Conforto 4-17, HR, 3 BB, 5 K
- Carlos Gomez 3-13, HR, 2 BB
- Jeff McNeil 7-13, 2B, HR
- Wilson Ramos 5-10, 2 BB
- Amed Rosario 0-10, K
- Pete Alonso 2-7, 2B, 2 K
Game Notes
Amed Rosario has safely hit in each of his last 10 road starts, batting .421 (16-38) with five runs, four doubles and five RBI. Overall, Rosario owns a .287/.317/.425 slash line with 16 extra-base hits and 22 RBI in 44 away games this year.
Todd Frazier is batting .304 (21-69) with a .435 OBP, six homers and 19 RBI in 22 games this month.
Let’s Go Mets!
