MMO Game Thread: Brewers vs Mets, 1:10 PM (Thor's Day!)

The New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers will play the rubber match of their three-game set this afternoon at 1:10 PM in what should be a packed Citi Field.

Rookie righthander Noah Syndergaard (0-1, 5.06) will make his home debut for the Flushing faithful, and he will oppose Wily Peralta (1-4, 3.80) for the Brewers.

Over the last 10 years only two other Mets starting pitchers made their major league debut before turning 23 years old: Mike Pelfrey (22) in 2006 and Jon Niese (21) in 2008.

Mets Starting Lineup

Curtis Granderson – RF
Eric Campbell – 3B
Lucas Duda – 1B
Michael Cuddyer – LF
Daniel Murphy – 2B
Wilmer Flores – SS
Johnny Monell – C
Noah Syndergaard – RHP
Juan Lagares – CF

The Mets find themselves in an important rubber game today. If they win, they can start rebuilding their first place lead over the Nationals, but If they lose, the psyche of the fans will shift to Saturday’s big win being a fluke. I’m also being super melodramatic, truth be told, it’s a game against the Brewers in May, so probably not that serious.

Yesterday the Mets finally crushed the ball scoring 10 runs in one inning on their way to a 14-1 rout of the Brewers. The Mets had homers from Plawecki, Granderson and Flores (his being a grand slam) and a 3-3 night at the plate from Jacob deGrom who also turned in an amazing start on the mound.

Noah Syndergaard will get his second start of the season today. In his first start he allowed 3 ER over 5.1 innings over 6 hits while walking 4 and striking out 6. The box score doesn’t tell the complete story for Noah, he did quite well for the first 5 innings and it wasn’t until the 6th that the wheels came off. This being Noah’s second start, he has never faced the Brewers.

The Mets bats will get a crack at Wily Peralta who is 1-4 over seven starts spanning 45.0 innings with a 3.80 ERA. May has been good for Wily who is 2-1 over 20.0 innings with a 2.25 ERA and 16 K’s. He was also quite good against the Mets last year putting up a 2.25 ERA over two games and 12.0 innings of work. The Mets have the following numbers against Wily: