Friday, April 21, 2017 • 7:10 p.m.
Citi Field • Flushing, N.Y.
RHP Tanner Roark (2-0, 3.50) vs. RHP Matt Harvey (2-0, 2.45)
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Rough night last night for the Mets. If you’ve followed this team since at least 2009, then injuries in bunches is something your very used to. On a night where the Mets didn’t have Lucas Duda, Wilmer Flores and Travis d’Arnaud, they lost Yoenis Cespedes to a hamstring cramp/shock (no clear answer at 5:37 in the morning when this post was written). Injuries led to players in new positions and errors, which led to an early hole for the Mets to climb out of, which they didn’t. Injuries never come at a good time but the Nationals come into to town this weekend and the Mets would like to gain ground on the division rivals.

Jacob deGrom was scratched from the start because of a stiff neck and will go on Saturday instead. Matt Harvey will start tonight for the Mets against the Nats. In Harvey’s last starts, he took the no-decision in Miami on April 16 in the Mets’ 4-2 loss to he Marlins.. He gave up two runs, one earned, on seven hits in 6.0 innings, struck out five and walked two.

Nationals Lineup

  1. Adam Eaton – CF
  2. Wilmer Difo – SS
  3. Bryce Harper – RF
  4. Daniel Murphy – 2B
  5. Anthony Rendon – 3B
  6. Adam Lind – 1B
  7. Chris Heisey – LF
  8. Jose Lobaton – C
  9. Tanner Roark – RHP

Mets Lineup

  1. Michael Conforto – LF
  2. Juan Lagares – CF
  3. Jay Bruce – 1B
  4. Neil Walker – 2B
  5. Curtis Granderon – RF
  6. Jose Reyes – SS
  7. Rene Rivera – C
  8. T.J. Rivera – 3B
  9. Matt Harvey – RHP

Harvey has faced Washginton 13 times in his career, the most times he has faced an opponent. He is 3-6 with a 2.91 ERA (25 earned runs/77.1 innings pitched), 82 strikeouts and 22 walks. On the season, Harvey is 2-0 over 3 starts and 18.1 innings with a 2.45 ERA. He has walked only 3 batters and has struck out 15. The Nats have the following numbers against Harvey:

  • Difo 1-2
  • Drew 1-4, 2B
  • Eaton 0-2
  • Harper 1-26, 7 K
  • Lobaton 1-7
  • Murphy 3-6, 2 HR
  • Rendon, 6-17, HR
  • Taylor 4-18, 2B
  • Tuner 1-3
  • Werth 4-24, 12 K
  • Zimmerman 6-23, 2 HR

The Mets bats draw Tanner Roark who is 2-0 over his first three starts of the year allowing 9 runs, 7 earned over 18.0 innings including 2 walks and 12 K’s. He is coming off of his best start of the season where he held the Phillies to 2 ER and 4 hits over 7.0 innings. Tanner was 1-2 over 4 games and 3 starts vs the Mets last year allowing only 4 runs, 3 earned in 21.1 innings. The Mets have the following numbers Roark:

  • Granderson 7-25, 4 2B
  • Duda 4-16, 2B
  • Cespedes 2-13, 2B
  • d’Arnaud 1-13
  • Bruce 1-11
  • R Rivera 4-13, 2B
  • Lagares 2-11, 2B
  • Flores 2-10, 2B
  • Cabrera 2-8, 2B
  • Walker 4-9, 2 2B
  • Conforto 1-6, 2B

Notes –

The Mets have placed Wilmer Flores on the 10-day disabled list and activated infielder T.J. Rivera,

Jacob deGrom is 3-0 with a 1.47 ERA (six earned runs/36.2 innings) in six April starts since the start of the 2016 campaign. (Which will be good to remember for tomorrow)

Mets players and coaches will host Little Leaguers from the Bronx and Brooklyn tomorrow from 10 a.m.-11 a.m. for a Junior Mets clinic…The series of clinics this summer is presented by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and provides boys and girls ages 8-14 an opportunity to learn baseball skills from major leaguers.

Noah Syndergaard struck out 10 Phillies without a walk last night, for his sixth 10-K/no-BB game…That ties the most such games in modern major league history for a pitcher before age 25. Dwight Gooden also had six such games before turning 25 with the Mets. Research courtesy of Elias

Let’s Go Mets!