Tuesday, September 5, 2023 • 7:05 PM
Nationals Park • Washington, DC
LHP José Quintana (1-5, 3.26) vs. LHP Patrick Corbin (9-12, 4.90)
SNY
The Mets and Nationals start a two-game series tonight, and the Baby Mets era is in full force as Francisco Álvarez, Mark Vientos, Brett Baty and Ronny Mauricio are all in the lineup.
Mandatory Credit: Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports
Mets Lineup
Series opener in DC.
All four Baby #Mets are in the starting lineup! pic.twitter.com/hSrMlbO693
— Metsmerized Online (@Metsmerized) September 5, 2023
José Quintana makes his ninth start of the year for the Mets tonight. Over 47 innings, he has a 3.26 ERA, 3.32 FIP, 1.340 WHIP and a 128 ERA+. He’s coming off throwing six shutout innings against the Rangers where he allowed three hits, walked three batters and struck out five. This was Quintana’s sixth quality start this season.
The Nationals have the following career numbers against Quintana:
- Lane Thomas 2-8, K
- Riley Adams 1-4, K
- CJ Abrams 0-2
- Michael Chavis 0-3, 2 K, BB
- Keibert Ruiz 0-2
- Ildemaro Vargas 1-3, K
- Dominic Smith 0-3, 2 K
- Joey Meneses 1-2, 2B
Opposing Lineup
- Jacob Young – CF
- Joey Meneses – 1B
- Keibert Ruiz – C
- Riley Adams – DH
- Carter Kieboom – 3B
- Ildemaro Vargas – SS
- Travis Blankenhorn – LF
- Alex Call – RF
- Jake Alu – 2B
The Mets bats draw Patrick Corbin who has pitched 154 1/3 innings over 27 starts this season. He has a 4.90 ERA, 5.11 FIP, 1.497 WHIP and an 87 ERA+. He’s also leading the league in hits allowed for the third time in four seasons.
Over the first four starts in August, Corbin looked like a different pitcher with a 2.70 ERA (6.56 FIP) allowing only eight runs (seven earned) from 16 hits and 11 walks over 23 1/3 innings. Things caught up to him in his last start where he allowed six runs from 10 hits.
The Mets have the following career numbers against him:
- Pete Alonso 14-43, 2 2B, 5 HR, 12 K, 8 BB
- Brandon Nimmo 8-34, 11 K, 2 BB
- Jeff McNeil 10-35, 2B, 4 K, 2 BB
- Francisco Lindor 10-35, 2 2B, HR, 8 K
- Tim Locastro 1-9, 4 K
- Francisco Álvarez 0-3, BB
- Daniel Vogelbach 0-2, BB
- Mark Vientos 1-2, 2B
Game Notes
The four young Mets rookies are all starting in the same lineup for the first time in MLB. They’d previously all started in the same lineup in Triple-A.
Brief Met Travis Blankenhorn is in the lineup for the Nationals tonight.
Three Things To Watch For
- Pete Alonso. Pete went 11 games without hitting a homer before hitting two on Sunday (3-for-4 at the plate). This brought him to 41 on the season. During his homerless drought, the chances of him reaching the 50-home-run mark started to diminish. His two-jack day puts him right back on course, and tonight he faces a pitcher that he already has five homers against.
- Ronny Mauricio. Ronny had quite a homestand in his major league debut. He had at least one hit in every game and had multiple hits twice leading to a 5-for-11 line to start the season. He’s already stolen two bases and hit a double too. It’s the Ronny show for the rest of the season!
- Jeff McHits. Since August 2, Jeff has been hitting .328/.361/.488 racking up a total of 41 hits including six doubles, a triple and four homers. He has raised his season numbers from .251/.327/.327 to .270/.335/.367 over this stretch. That’s a nearly 50-point gain on his OPS. This is the Jeff McNeil we were missing for most of the season, and it’s good to see him again.
Let’s go Mets!
