Sunday, April 11, 2021 • 1:10 p.m.
Citi Field • Flushing, NY
RHP John Curtiss (0-0, 6.75) vs. RHP Marcus Stroman (1-0, 1.50)
SNY • WCBS 880 AM • WQBU 92.7 FM

For a second straight series the Mets will play a rubber game. On Thursday, the Mets won the series opener on a controversial call where Michael Conforto was hit by a pitch in the strike zone, which should have been called strike three. Yesterday, the Mets got a masterpiece of a game from Jacob deGrom where he struck out 14 Marlins, but the offense couldn’t get anything going against Trevor Rogers (a theme from last year too) and the Mets eventually lost 3-0.

So the Mets will try to get back to .500 today! Game six of the season! Over the first six games, the Mets have shown two early trends. First, the starting pitching is good, and is only going to get better when Carlos Carrasco and Noah Syndergaard return. Second, the trend from last year were the Mets could get hits with the bases loaded and did nothing with RISP continues. I’m a big believer that over time, these averages should be the same. Hopefully the Mets can start to work on correcting that today.

Mets Lineup

  1. Brandon Nimmo (L) CF
  2. Francisco Lindor (S) SS
  3. Dominic Smith (L) LF
  4. Pete Alonso (R) 1B
  5. Jeff McNeil (L) 2B
  6. Michael Conforto (L) RF
  7. Luis Guillorme (L) 3B
  8. Tomas Nido (R) C
  9. Marcus Stroman (R) P

Marlins Lineup

  1. Corey Dickerson (L) LF
  2. Starling Marte (R) CF
  3. Jesus Aguilar (R) 1B
  4. Brian Anderson (R) 3B
  5. Adam Duvall (R) RF
  6. Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 2B
  7. Miguel Rojas (R) SS
  8. Chad Wallach (R) C
  9. John Curtiss (R) P

Marcus Stroman will make his second start of the season today. In his first start of the season, he allowed one run off a solo homer and surrendered three hits over six innings while walking two and striking out three. Very few Marlins have seen Stroman in a real game before. Stroman missed the Marlins when he was traded to the Mets in 2019. He sat out 2020 and the Marlins roster turned over so many times in the last couple of years and was filled in with homegrown players, there are only three Marlins that have seen him:

  • Adam Duvall 2-for-3, HR, K
  • Corey Dickerson 14-for-33, 5 2B, 2 HR, BB, 5 K
  • Starling Marte 1-for-5

John Curtiss will get the ball for the Marlins on Sunday. So far this year, Curtiss has allowed two runs from five hits over 2.2 innings while walking none and striking out three. For the Rays last year he pitched in 17 games, making three starts, and totaled 25.0 innings with a 1.80 ERA, 3.35 FIP, 0.960 WHIP and 232 ERA+. In his one game against the Mets, he allowed two runs from four hits over 2.1 innings.

Let’s go Mets!