Thursday, August 23, 2018 • 1:10 p.m.
Citi Field • Flushing, N.Y.
LHP Madison Bumgarner (4-5, 3.05) vs. RHP Jacob deGrom (8-7, 1.71)
SNY • WOR 710 AM • 104.3 WAXQ-FM HD 2 • ESPN 1050 AM
The Mets look to take the four game series tonight after winning the last two games. Yesterday the Mets got a solid start from Noah Syndergaard and some power from Dom Smith, Jose Bautista and Todd Frazier. The star of the night, for me at least, was Jeff McNeil, who recorded 8 straight hits after his 2nd hit of the night, becoming the second Met to do that this season (Nimmo was the other).
Mets Lineup
- Amed Rosario – SS
- Austin Jackson – CF
- Wilmer Flores – 1B
- Todd Frazier – 3B
- Jose Bautista – RF
- Jeff McNeil – 2B
- Devin Mesoraco – C
- Michael Conforto – LF
- Jacob deGrom – RHP
Giants Lineup
- Andrew McCutchen – RF
- Joe Panik – 2B
- Evan Longoria – 3B
- Brandon Belt – 1B
- Austin Slater – LF
- Brandon Crawford – SS
- Nick Hundley – C
- Madison Bumgarner – LHP
- Steven Duggar– CF
This afternoon Jacob deGrom takes the mound for his third straight start against a staff’s ace. First it was Severino and the Yankees then last time out it was Arrieta and the Phillies and today’s it is Bumgarner.
Jacob is 8-7 over 25 games and 168.0 innings with a 1.71 ERA (league leading), 2.08 FIP (league leading), 0.958 WHIP and 216 ERA+ (league leading). He’s coming off a complete game masterpiece against the Phillies where he allowed 1 unearned run and in the month of August he has posted a 1.21 ERA over 4 games and 29.2 innings. He faced the Giants twice last year allowing 3 runs over 6.0 innings in Queens and only 1 run over 8.0 innings in SF. The Giants have the following numbers against Jacob:
- Belt 3-14, HR, 4 BB
- Pence 6-17, 2B, HR
- Panik 2-14, 2B, 2 BB
- McCutchen 4-14, BB
- Posey 4-14, 2B, HR
- Crawford 3-13
- d’Arnaud 0-4
Madison Bumgarner is 4-5 over 14 games and 85.2 innings posting a 3.05 ERA, 3.89 FIP, 1.296 WHIP, 133 ERA+. Madison is coming off his worst start of the season where he allowed 6 runs, 5 earned over 6.0 innings against the Reds. Before that in August he had a 1.50 ERA over 3 games and 18.0 innings. The Mets have the following numbers against him:
- Reyes 3-13
- Flores 1-11, 2B
- Frazier 5-12, 2B, HR
- Jackson 3-9, 3B
- Mesoraco 1-7, 2B
- Bautista 1-2
- Conforto 0-3
- Plawecki 1-3
Game Notes
According to Elias, McNeil is the first Mets rookie to record at least two hits in five consecutive starts in one season since Jose Reyes had six straight multi-hit starts in August 2003, a rookie record. McNeil has 31 hits through his first 28 career games, the seventh-most by a player who began his major league career with the Mets.
Jose Bautista moved into a tie for 97th place on MLB’s alltime home run list with his 342nd home run last night (also, Ron Santo). Bautista has 12 RBI in his last 11 games.
Jacob deGrom has held opponents to three runs or less in 22 straight starts, tied for the fifth-longest single-season streak in the majors since 1950 and the second-longest single season streak in franchise history.
Let’s Go Mets!
