The Mets completed a sweep of the doubleheader with the Phillies Tuesday with a 4-0 win in Game 2.

Marcus Stroman pitched six shutout innings, and Brandon Nimmo continued his hot start with three RBI to lead the Mets tonight.

Now let’s get into the game.

On The Mound

Marcus Stroman pitched a gem today for his second start (okay, third, technically) of the year.

After only throwing nine pitches before Sunday’s game was placed in a rain delay (and ultimately suspended), minds were left to wander how Stroman would perform two days later after going through a whole pre-game routine only to have been shut down after a couple pitches. We should know when Stroman says his body feels good, he means it. Stroman threw a side bullpen Monday and said he was ready to go for Tuesday, and he came out and proved he was.

Stroman set down the first nine batters down in order and faced the minimum 12 batters through four. (A double play off the bat of Bryce Harper, seen below, helped there.)

He allowed two hits in the fifth, and one more in the sixth, but he got out of both with majority ground ball outs without allowing a run.

Stroman probably would’ve stayed in for the seventh inning had he not reached base in the bottom of the sixth (with his first career walk, no less). After lingering around the bases for about 10 minutes, Luis Rojas removed him from the game with a 4-0 lead and brought in Jeurys Familia, who was able to close out the game with a scoreless seventh.

The Phillies paired a couple two-out singles together in the seventh, but Familia pounded the strike zone with sinkers–11 strikes in 13 pitches–and got three ground ball outs in the frame.

Stroman improved to 2-0 for the year and has now allowed just one run in 12 official innings so far. That’s a 0.75 ERA. (He also has one-third of an inning from Sunday where he hasn’t allowed a run, but that isn’t official yet.) Stroman is now lined up to pitch in Colorado on Saturday or Sunday, pending if they want to start Walker on regular rest and give Stroman an extra day after his last 72 hours. (The latter is the likely scenario.)

At The Plate

Brandon Nimmo was the star of tonight’s game.

The leadoff hitter knocked in the final three runs of the game with a pair of singles. He ended the night 3-for-4 and is now batting .435 with a 1.146 OPS. I don’t think Nimmo is coming out of that leadoff spot any time soon.

Jonathan Villar–the hero of game one–got the Mets offense going pre-Nimmo with an RBI double in the fourth inning. Nimmo knocked in two later in the frame once the bases were loaded.

All four runs tonight came with runners in scoring position. Between both games of the doubleheader, the Mets were 6-for-21 with RISP–an improvement on their .146 batting average with RISP coming into the series.

Luis Rojas said after the game, “You can tell that the more repetitions they get the better they’ll be feeling.” That proved true for today. What remains is carrying it over to tomorrow, the next day and beyond.

Some more offensive notes from today’s game:

  • Francisco Lindor notched his 900th career hit with a first-inning double, as NY Daily News‘ Deesha Thosar points out. It was his 170th career double.
  • Brandon Nimmo has now reached safely at least twice in the first seven games of the year, as MMO‘s Michael Mayer tweeted. He’s three games shy of tying David Wright‘s record of reaching base twice in 10 straight games to start the year.
  • Pete Alonso hit two screamers today–a 105.4 mph lineout and 114.7 mph double. Alonso, who came into today in the 98th percentile in average exit velocity in the majors, is scorching the ball to start the year.

On Deck

The Mets pick it back up tomorrow night for Game 3 of the four-game set at 7:10 p.m. with David Peterson on the mound.

Former Met Zack Wheeler is lined up to take the rubber for the Phillies.

Peterson looks for consistency Wednesday night after allowing six runs in four-plus innings against Philadelphia in his first start of the year. The lefty opened the game allowing four runs in the first, settling down for the second through fourth innings, then allowing two base runners in the fifth before being pulled. (They came around to score.)

Wheeler, who signed a five-year, $118.5 million contract with the Phillies after the 2019 season and has looked every penny, meanwhile has pitched well against the Mets so far since joining the Phils. He’s thrown 20.1 innings over three starts and allowed eight runs (3.54 ERA) on eight runs.