Monday, April 9, 2018 • 7:10 p.m.
Marlins Park • Miami, FL
RHP Noah Syndergaard (1-0, 5.40) vs. RHP José Ureña (0-1, 4.91)
SNY • WOR 710 AM • 104.3 WAXQ-FM HD 2 • ESPN 1050
That was fun! We should do it again sometime.
The Mets are coming off of a three game sweep in Washington, D.C., where they were behind the Nationals in all three games at some point and rallied to win. Last night, Harper got to Harvey early but the Mets responded two innings later with an Adrian Gonzalez grand slam. The Nationals pushed the game into extras but the Mets came back, got the win in the 12th and left D.C. with three wins. The Mets have now won five in a row.
Mets Lineup
- Michael Conforto – CF
- Yoenis Cespedes – LF
- Jay Bruce – RF
- Todd Frazier – 3B
- Asdrubal Cabrera – 2B
- Adrian Gonzalez – 1B
- Kevin Plawecki – C
- Noah Syndergaard – P
- Amed Rosario – SS
Marlins Lineup
- Derek Dietrich – LF
- Miguel Rojas – SS
- Starlin Castro – 2B
- Justin Bour – 1B
- Brian Anderson – 3B
- Cameron Maybin – CF
- Braxton Lee – RF
- Bryan Holaday – C
- Jose Urena – P
The Mets make their first trip to Miami tonight to face a different looking Marlins team. The fish snapped their losing streak yesterday and are now 3-6 on the season thanks to a 6-3 win against the Phillies who wish they could have moved some of their runs from their 20-1 beating of the Marlins on Saturday to Sunday.
Noah Syndergaard makes his third start of the season tonight. In his first two starts, he has allowed six runs on 10 hits and doled out two walks while striking out 17 in 10 innings of work. This has translated into a 5.40 ERA, 2.88 FIP, 1.200 WHIP and a 74 ERA+. He pitched two starts in back-to-back games against the Marlins last year allowing two runs, one earned in each start in 13.0 innings from 11 hits, no walks and 13 K’s. The Marlins have the following numbers against Syndergaard:
- Bour 5-for-14, 2B
- Dietrich 5-for-13, 2 2B
- Realmuto 1-for-8
- Prado 1-for-6
- Castro 1-for-5, 2B
- Rojas 3-for-4
The Mets bats draw José Ureña who will also make his third start of the season. So far, he has allowed six runs over 11.0 innings from 10 hits and five walks while striking out nine and a league leading three HBP. To put that in perspective, last year he also led the league in HBP at 14 over 169.2 innings. Anyway, he has a 4.91 ERA, 5.98 FIP, 1.364 WHIP and 78 ERA+ so far this year. Last year he posted a 3.82 ERA, 5.20 FIP, 1.273 WHIP and 107 ERA+. Last year, he pitched five times against the Mets, making three starts totaling 24.0 innings and holding the Mets to eight runs, six earned (2.25 ERA) over 17 hits, one walk and 12 K’s. The Mets have the following numbers against Ureña:
- Reyes 6-for-18, 2B, 3B
- Bruce 4-for-13, 2B, 2 HR, BB
- Cabrera 1-for-14
- Cespedes 3-for-11, HR
- Conforto 3-for-8, 2B
- Flores 1-for-7, HR
- Gonzalez 2-for-7
- d’Arnaud 2-for-5, BB
- Nimmo 1-for-3, HR
- Plawecki 2-for-3
Game Notes
The Mets have won five in a row. New York’s longest winning streak last year was five games (April 9-13)…New York is 3-0 on their current six-game road trip. The Mets .875 (7-1) winning percentage is currently the best in the National League.
New York is 7-1 through its first eight games of the season for the third time in franchise history and for the first time since 2006, when the club began the year 8-1. The 1985 Mets also started 8-1.
The Mets have a .358 on-base percentage as a team, the third-best mark in the majors. New York is hitting .253, the fifth-best mark in the majors.
New York has allowed at least one run in 19 innings. The Mets have immediately scored in their next at-bat nine times. New York has scored 22 runs with two-outs, the seventh most in the majors.
Asdrubal Cabrera has hit in seven straight games (11-for-29, .379) after going 0-for-4 on Opening Day. Cabrera slugged his first homer of the year last night. He has a .438 on-base percentage over the last seven games with three RBi and five runs scored.
Noah Syndergaard is 3-0 with a 1.64 ERA (six earned runs/33.0 innings) and 42 strikeouts in five career starts vs. Miami. He is 2-0 with a 1.89 ERA (four earned runs/19.0 innings) in three career starts at Marlins Park. Syndergaard is tied for sixth in the majors with 17 strikeouts this season.
New York’s staff has posted a 2.40 ERA, the best mark in the National League and the second-lowest in the majors, behind Houston (2.00). The team has a 1.11 WHIP, the second-lowest mark in the majors and has held opponents to a .198 mark the second-lowest in the majors. They have allowed two or fewer runs in five of their eight games.
