Winners of five of their last seven games, the New York Mets will tackle the Arizona Diamondbacks again on Saturday evening at Citi Field in Flushing.
The Mets will send Matt Harvey (7-6, 3.11 ERA) to the mound and he will ooppose Patrick Corbin (1-0, 3.60 ERA) for the D’Backs. First pitch is at 4:10 PM.
Harvey has allowed four earned runs over his last four starts (1.46 ERA) and is one of only two starters in the last 100 years to allow one run or fewer in 26 of his first 53 career games. The other is Dwight Gooden, who had 27 such outings.
Since 1950, Harvey has the fourth-best home ERA (2.22) of any starter in his first three major league seasons, trailing only Dwight Gooden (1.85), Jerry Koosman (2.01) and Orel Hershiser (2.08).
Mets Starting Lineup
- Juan Lagares – CF
- Ruben Tejada – SS
- Michael Cuddyer – LF
- Wilmer Flores – 2B
- Lucas Duda – 1B
- John Mayberry Jr. – RF
- Kevin Plawecki – C
- Eric Campbell – 3B
- Matt Harvey – RHP
The Mets look to take the series this afternoon against the Diamondbacks as we celebrate the last Matt Harvey day of the first half of 2015. Yesterday Thor showed everyone what he can bring to the table pitching 8 innings, allowing only 1 run on 4 hits and striking out 13 batters. The Mets finally got some power from Duda and Cuddyer, something that has been sorely missed in the last month plus.
Matt Harvey is 7-6 over 16 games and 104.1 innings with a 3.11 ERA while striking out 100 batters. After three straight starts of dominance, totaling 19.2 innings and 2 runs, 1 earned, Harvey was human in his last start allowing 3 ER over 5.0 innings against the Dodgers. He faced the Diamondbacks earlier this year allowing 2 ER over 7.0 innings while striking out 9. Arizona has the following numbers against Matt:
- Aaron Hill 3-8
- Goldschmidt 1-5, HR
- Ahmed 0-3
- Castillo 0-3
- Delgado 1-3
- Owings 0-3
Arizona will second out Patrick Corbin to the mound today who will be making his second start of the season. In his debut last time out, he allowed 2 ER over 8 hits in 5.0 innings of work on his way to a win. It was first start since having Tommy John, which sidelined Corbin for the entire 2014 season. Back in 2013 he made 32 starts and logged 208.1 innings with a 3.41 ERA. Back then he faced the Mets twice allowing 7 ER over 12.0 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against Patrick:
- Cuddyer 4-11, 2B
- Lagares 1-6, 2B
- Murphy 3-5
- Flores 0-3
- Mayberry 1-2, HR
- Tejada 0-2
Lets Go Mets!
