Tuesday, July 25, 2017 • 10:10 p.m. (ET)
Petco Park • San Diego, CA
RHP Seth Lugo (4-2, 4.05) vs. RHP Kyle Lloyd (MLB Debut)
SNY• WOR 710 AM • 104.3 WAXQ-FM HD 2 • ESPN 1050 AM
The Mets jumped right back into the win column last night! While it looked like for the majority of the game the Mets were going to win by a mile they ended up literally winning by inches. Jacob deGrom had a phenomenal start over innings innings and the offense gave him five runs of support. The Padres came within inches of hitting a three-run walk-off homer with one out, but then Addison Reed got himself together and shut the door on the game.
The Mets have won five of their last six games. New York is 1-0 on its season high-tying 10-game road trip (San Diego, Seattle, Colorado). The Mets are 15-10 in their last 25 games. The Mets are 21-23 on the road and are 7-5 in their last 11 contests away from Citi Field.
METS LINEUP
- Curtis Granderson – CF
- Asdrubal Cabrera – 3B
- Yoenis Cespedes – LF
- Jay Bruce – RF
- T.J. Rivera – 2B
- Lucas Duda – 1B
- Jose Reyes – SS
- Travis d’Arnaud – C
- Seth Lugo – P
PADRES LINEUP
- Jose Pirela – LF
- Carlos Asuaje – 2B
- Wil Myers – 1B
- Hector Sanchez – C
- Hunter Renfroe – RF
- Cory Spangenberg – 3B
- Manuel Margot – CF
- Allen Cordoba – SS
- Kyle Lloyd – P
Seth Lugo takes the mound tonight. He is 4-2 over eight games (seven starts) and 46 2/3 innings with a 4.05 ERA, 3.87 FIP and 1.350 WHIP. After an average start against the Rockies, he rebounded in his last start allowing only one ER over 6 2/3 innings on four hits and a walk against the Cardinals. The Mets have won 12 of Lugo’s last 14 starts dating to August 25, 2016. Lugo is 9-2 with a 3.32 ERA (31 earned runs/84.0 innings pitched) over that 14-start span. Lugo is 6-2 with a 3.61 ERA (23 earned runs/57.1 innings) in 13 career games, eight starts on the road. Last year he tossed 2 1/3 clean innings against the Padres, striking out two batters and nothing else on the stat sheet. The Padres have the following numbers against Lugo:
- Myers 0-for-1
- Szczur 0-for-1
The Mets bats will get a look at Jhoulys Chacin who is 9-7 over 20 games and 114.0 innings this year with a 4.26 ERA, 4.38 FIP and 1.289 WHIP. He has been much better than his season numbers in his last eight games going 5-2, (Padres are 6-2 over that time), pitching 50 1/3 innings with a 2.50 ERA. Batters are hitting .210 against him in this stretch and getting on base at a rate of .294. One of his worst starts this year was against the Mets where he allowed eight hits in 2/3 innings leading to seven runs. The Mets have the following numbers against him:
- Cabrera 1-for-9, HR, 3 BB
- Duda 3-for-6, 2B, 2 HR, 3 BB
- Granderson 2-for-6, 3 BB
- Bruce 3-for-8, 2B, BB
- Conforto 4-for-7, HR, BB
- Flores 4-for-6, 2B, BB
- d’Arnaud 1-for-6
- Reyes 1-for-4
- Cespedes 1-for-3
- R Rivera 2-for-3, HR
Notes:
Jose Reyes is hitting .346 (28-for-81) with seven doubles, three triples, three home runs and 12 RBI in his last 22 games. He has 10 multi-hit games in his last 21 contests. Over his last 32 games, dating to June 16, Reyes is batting .313 (36-for-115) with seven doubles, four triples, six home runs, 17 RBI and 16 runs scored. Reyes collected his ninth career multi-triple game on Saturday. Since 1950, Reyes is second in the majors with nine games with
two or more triples. Willie Mays is first with 10 such games.
Michael Conforto has hit in a career high-tying eight straight games overall, going 13-for-33 (.394). Also hit in eight consecutive games from April 22-30, 2016. He has an extra-base hit in five straight games, the longest active streak in the majors. Since the All-Star break, Conforto is batting .333 (15-for-45) with four doubles, five homers, 11 RBI and eight runs scored. Has five home runs in his last 11 games. His 19 home runs are a career-high. He is sixth in the NL with a .404 on-base percentage, eighth with a .578 slugging percentage and seventh with a .982 OPS.
New York has scored 60 runs in the secondhalf, the sixth-most in the majors. The Mets are 7-4 since the All-Star break, tied for fourth-most wins in the majors.
Let’s Go Mets!
