Monday, June 12, 2017 • 7:10 p.m.
Citi Field • Flushing, NY
RHP John Lackey (4-6, 5.12) vs. RHP Jacob deGrom (4-3, 4.75)
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What a difference two days make! After Friday’s loss, it felt like the season was completely slipping away from the Mets. Since then, the Mets had dominant starts from Gsellman, Matz and Lugo and took the last three games from the Braves. They come into the series with the Cubs on a high note and look to keep holding that note through their series with the Nationals.
Cubs Lineup
- Jon Jay – CF
- Kris Bryant – 3B
- Anthony Rizzo – 1B
- Ben Zobrist – LF
- Jason Heyward – R
- Willson Contreras – C
- Javier Baez – 2B
- Addison Russell – SS
- John Lackey – RHP
Mets Lineup
- Curtis Granderson – CF
- Neil Walker – 2B
- Yoenis Cespedes – LF
- Jay Bruce – RF
- Lucas Duda – 1B
- Asdrubal Cabrera – SS
- Travis d’Arnaud – C
- Jose Reyes – 3B
- Jacob deGrom – RHP
Jacob deGrom will look to shake off his last two starts. On the season he is 4-3 over 12 games and 72.0 innings with a 4.75 ERA, 3.93 FIP and 1.444 WHIP. In his last two starts he has tossed a combined 8.0 innings allowing 18 hits and six walks leading to 15 earned runs. In the two starts before that he allowed 10 hits and four walks over 15.1 innings leading to one earned run. In those two starts he struck out 19 batters but in his last two he struck out eight. In one start against the Cubs last year he tossed 5.0 innings allowing three hits and a walk leading to one run. The Cubs have the following numbers against Jacob:
- Rizzo 4-14, HR
- Heyward 3-11
- Bryant 2-6, 2 HR, 2 BB
- Jay 2-5, 2B, BB
- Montero 1-6
- Russell 1-6
- Zobrist 0-5
- Schwarber 1-2, HR, BB
The Mets draw John Lackey tonight who is 4-6 over 12 games and 70.1 innings with a 5.12 ERA, 5.06 FIP, and 1.365 WHIP. After a string of poor starts to end the month of May, he started June well holding the Cardinals to two runs on four hits and two walks in 7.0 innings of work. In his last time out against the Marlins he allowed five runs over 6.0 innings on seven hits and no walks. Last year he held the Mets to two runs over 6.1 innings allowing five hits and two walks. The Mets have the following numbers against John:
- Granderson 10-41, 2 2B, 2 3B, HR, 5 BB (.326 OBP)
- Cabrera 7-34, 2 2B, HR, BB
- Bruce 5-29, 2B, 2 HR
- Walker 4-14
- Cespedes 2-7, 2B, HR
- Reyes 3-8, BB
- Flores 0-8, 3 K
- Duda 2-7
- d’Arnaud 2-2, BB
Seth Lugo allowed one run in 7.0 innings of work yesterday afternoon, marking the fifth straight start by a Mets starting pitcher allowing one run or fewer with Zack Wheeler (7.0 IP, 1 R), Matt Harvey (5.0 IP, 0 R), Robert Gsellman (6.2 IP, 0 R), and Steven Matz (7.0 IP, 1 R) doing it before him. The last time that five Mets starters allowed one run or fewer in consecutive starts was May 1-6, 2015 when Harvey, Jonathon Niese, Dillon Gee, Bartolo Colon and deGrom achieved the feat (Research courtesy of Elias).
During this run, Mets starters have posted a 0.83 ERA (three earned runs in 32.2 innings) over their last five games. Met pitching overall has allowed one run or fewer in each of its last three games. The last time Mets pitching allowed one run or fewer in three consecutive games was September 3-5, 2016.
Let’s Go Mets!
