Monday, August 14, 2017 • 7:05 p.m.
Yankee Stadium • Bronx, N.Y.
RHP Rafael Montero (1-8, 6.06) vs. RHP Luis Cessa (0-3, 4.83)
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It’s time for the Subway Series! This week the Mets and Yankees play a four-game, home and home series starting in the Bronx and ending in Queens. The Mets are coming off a series win Philly where they took three of four games largely thanks to Conforto who is pushing towards 30 homers for the year.

Mets Lineup

  1. Curtis Granderson – DH
  2. Asdrubal Cabrera – 2B
  3. Yoenis Cespedes – LF
  4. Michael Conforto – RF
  5. Wilmer Flores – 3B
  6. Dominic Smith – 1B
  7. Amed Rosario – SS
  8. Rene Rivera – C
  9. Juan Lagares – CF

Yankees Lineup

  1. Brett Gardner – LF
  2. Aaron Hicks – CF
  3. Aaron Judge – RF
  4. Didi Gregorius – DH
  5. Gary Sanchez – C
  6. Chase Headley – 1B
  7. Todd Frazier – 3B
  8. Ronald Torreyes – 2B
  9. Tyler Wade – SS

Rafael Montero will get the start for the Mets tonight. He is 1-8 over 23 games and nine starts totaling 65.1 innings with a 6.06 ERA, 4.64 FIP and 1.806 WHIP. The last three starts have not been kind to Montero who has allowed 13 runs and 18 hits with nine walks in 13.1 innings. The Yankees roster looks quite different since Montero has last faced them, so only two players have seen him a game. Ellsbury is 0-for-2 with a walk against him while Gardner is 1-for-3.

The Mets draw Luis Cessa for the opener who is 0-3 over nine games and four starts. He has pitched 31.2 innings with a 4.83 ERA, 5.41 FIP and 1.484 WHIP. Tonight will be Cessa’s first start since the end of June. When he was a starter he allowed 13 runs, 11 earned over 17.0 innings with 17 hits and seven walks. He’s coming off a shutout 3.1 inning outing where he allowed only one hit but still walked four batters. Prior to that he allowed six runs over 4.2 innings. He has never faced the Mets before and no one on the Mets has seen him at the Major League level.

Notes

The Mets went 2-2 against the Yankees last year, including going 1-1 at Yankee Stadium. The Mets are 9-12 all-time against the Yankees at the new Yankee Stadium, 22-32 all-time against the Yankees in the Bronx, and are 10-8 vs. the Yankees overall since they swept the four-game set in 2013.

Let’s Go Mets!