Friday, July 22, 2016 • 7:10 p.m.
Marlins Park • Miami, FL
RHP Logan Verrett (3-6, 4.21) vs. LHP Adam Conley (6-5, 3.61)
SNY • WOR 710 AM • ESPN 1050 AM
The New York Mets begin a three game set with the Miami Marlins tonight. They are coming off an underwhelming performance in their previous series that saw them drop two of three to the Chicago Cubs.
New York is 24-24 on the road this year, including 3-3 on this nine-game road trip. The Mets are 5-10 in its last 15 road contests despite having the lowest team ERA on the road (3.42) in all of baseball.
The Marlins are 8-2 over their last ten games while the Mets head to Miami having lost six of their last ten contests.
Mets Lineup
- Jose Reyes – 3B
- Curtis Granderson – RF
- Yoenis Cespedes – LF
- Wilmer Flores – 1B
- Neil Walker – 2B
- Asdrubal Cabrera – SS
- Travis d’Arnaud – C
- Juan Lagares – CF
- Logan Verrett – RHP
Marlins Lineup
- J.T. Realmuto – C
- Miguel Rojas – 3B
- Christian Yelich – LF
- Giancarlo Stanton – RF
- Marcell Ozuna – CF
- Derek Dietrich – 2B
- Chris Johnson – 1B
- A. Hechavarria – SS
- Adam Conley – LHP
Starting things off for the Amazin’s will be Logan Verrett, who is 3-6 over 25 games and 7 starts this year with a 4.21 ERA over 62.0 innings of work. His last start in Philly was his first solid one in a while where he allowed 2 ER over 6.0 innings while striking out 4. In 8.0 innings of work against the Marlins this year, including a start, Logan has tossed 8.0 scoreless innings. The Marlins have the following numbers against him:
- Yelich 2-6, 2B
- Prado 0-5
- Realmuto 2-5
- Suzuki 1-4, 2B
- Rojas 1-3
- Stanton 0-3
- Dietrich 1-3
The Mets bats will get a look at Adam Conley who is 6-5 over 19 starts and 104.2 innings with a 3.61 ERA. Three of his last four starts have been average to below average (with one good one mixed in). In those last four starts he has posted a 3.80 ERA over 21.1 innings of work. His second start of the season was against the Mets where he held the Amazin’s to 4 hits and no runs over 6.0 innings while striking out 9 in a game the Mets eventually won 2-1. The Mets have the following numbers against Adam:
- Cespedes 0-7
- Lagares 0-6
- Cabrera 1-4
- Flores 1-5, 2B
- Granderson 1-4
- d’Arnaud 0-4
- Loney 1-3
- Walker 1-3
Let’s Go Mets!
