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EAST NATIONAL NATIONAL WORLD LEAGUE WORLD DIVISION & NLDS LEAGUE & NLDS LEAGUE LEAGUE CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS WINNERS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS WILD CARD NEW YORK METS (10-10-1) at WASHINGTON NATIONALS (7-8-3) Thursday, March 16, 2017 • 1:05 p.m. The Ballpark of the Palm Beaches • West Palm Beach, FL RHP Zack Wheeler (0-0, 4.50) vs. LHP Gio González (0-1, 1.29) YESTERDAY'S GAME: The Mets CURTIS GRANDERSON: Is celebrating were defeated by the Marlins, 6-2, his 36th birthday today and is batting EXPECTED TO START for the first time this spring yesterday .321 (9-28) with one home run and RHP ZACK WHEELER: Will make his afternoon in Jupiter...RHP Matt Harvey three runs scored this spring...He has second spring start this afternoon... allowed four runs, two earned, in 3.1 hit safely in each of his last five games Made his Grapefruit League debut innings in his third Grapefruit League entering play today and hit safely on March 10 at Atlanta, working 2.0 start while striking out three...RHP Paul in six of his last seven...In that time, innings and allowing one run, earned, Sewald finished the game for the Mets, Granderson is batting .450 (9-20). on two hits with one strikeout...It was tossing 1.0 scoreless inning to lower his first appearance in a Mets uniform his spring ERA to 1.13...OF Tim Tebow LUCAS DUDA: Is batting .316 (6-19) since Spring Training, 2015...Wheeler joined the Mets from minor league with all six of his hits going for extra underwent Tommy John surgery on camp and went 2-3. bases (four doubles, two home runs)... He's driven in six runs and scored March 24, 2015 and missed the rest VS WASHINGTON: The Mets are 0-2 three while hitting safely in five of his of the 2015 season...Did not pitch at versus the Nationals in Grapefruit seven Grapefruit League games. the major league level in 2016 while League play with their most recent loss recovering from Tommy John surgery coming on March 11 in Port St. Lucie... GAVIN CECCHINI: Is on today's travel but did make one rehabilitation start The two teams will meet three more roster after playing in the WBC for with St. Lucie (A) of the Florida State times this spring (including today). Italy...Cecchini recorded a game-tying League. hit for the Italy squad to force extra WHEELER SPRING TRAINING STATS METS HOME RUNS: The Mets have innings in their second-round matchup Date/Opp IP H R ER BB K hit 27 home runs this spring, which is with Venezuela...Prior to leaving for the 3.10 @ATL 2.0 2 1 1 1 1 second-most in the Grapefruit League tournament, Cecchini was batting .500 and third-most in the majors...The (7-14) with two doubles, one home EXPECTED TO PITCH: RHP Ben Yankees lead the majors with 29 home run and three RBI in six games...He's Rowen is expected to pitch this runs. hit safely in each of his six Grapefruit afternoon for the Mets...Rowen League games this spring. has not allowed a run in his seven appearances totaling 6.1 innings this METS ON TWITTER METS OFFENSE: The Mets are batting spring...In that time he's struck out Jerry Blevins ....................................@jerryblevins .279 as a team, third-best in the five, walked none and permitted three Chase Bradford ..........................@cbBaseball29 Grapefruit League and 10th-best in the hits...Also expected to pitch is LHP Xorge Carrillo ............................ @xorgecarrillo14 majors overall. Josh Smoker...Smoker has one save Gavin Cecchini ........................@GavinCecchini2 Yoenis Céspedes ............................... @ynscspds and a 1.23 ERA (one earned run/7.1 Michael Conforto ...........................@mconforto8 YOENIS CÉSPEDES: Is hitting .400 innings) in seven games this spring. P.J. Conlon ........................................@pjconlon29 (12-30) with five home runs in 11 spring Jacob deGrom .................................@JdeGrom19 training games...Céspedes homered SPRING TICKETS: Tickets are Phillip Evans .....................................@PEVANS28 Sean Gilmartin ...........................@GilmartinSean Tuesday at Houston and has homered available for Spring Training home Erik Goeddel .......................................@erikgoedy in five of his last nine games...His five games by calling 772-871-2115 or at Tom Gorzelanny ........................................@TGorz are tied for first in the majors with San Mets.com. Curtis Granderson ................................@cgrand3 Luis Guillorme ................................ @lguillorme13 Diego's Jabari Blash, Washington's Matt Harvey ................................@MattHarvey33 Bryce Harper, Kansas City's Peter UPCOMING PITCHING Ty Kelly .....................................................@tykelly11 O'Brien and Philadelphia's Brock Juan Lagares ................................ @juanlagares2 TODAY, MARCH 16 Seth Lugo ............................................@seth_lugo Stassi...His 28 total bases this spring 1:05 p.m. at Washington Steven Matz .......................................... @Smatz88 are tied for the third-most in the Mets: RHP Zack Wheeler, LHP Josh Smoker, Kevin McGowan ....................@kevinmcgowanjr Grapefruit League. RHP Ben Rown, LHP Tom Gorzelanny, LHP Tomas Nido ..............................................@tnido24 Josh Edgin Brandon Nimmo ............ @You_Found_Nimmo Nationals: LHP Gio González, RHP Vance Kevin Plawecki..............................@kplawecki26 YESTERDAY IN THE WBC: Ty Kelly Worley, RHP Koda Glover, RHP Rafael Addison Reed.......................................@AReed43 went 1-4 with a run scored in Israel's Martin, RHP Jacob Turner José Reyes ....................................... @lamelaza_7 8-3 loss to Japan. Matt Reynolds ....................................@ReyRey_5 FRIDAY, MARCH 17 René Rivera.................................. @ReneRivera13 1:10 p.m. vs. St. Louis NOAH SYNDERGAARD-THOR T.J. Rivera ..........................................@TJ_Rivera_ Cardinals: RHP Adam Wainwright Amed Rosario ...........................@Amed_Rosario BOBBLEHEAD: The Mets have Mets: LHP Steven Matz, RHP Erik Goeddel, Ben Rowen ...........................................@B_Rowen teamed up with Marvel Entertainment RHP Ben Rowen, RHP Addison Reed, LHP Paul Sewald ................................ @ItsPaulSewald Jerry Blevins, Dominic Smith .......................@TheRealSmith22 ® for Noah Syndergaard-Thor Josh Smoker ................................@Josh_Smoker Bobblehead Day on Saturday, July 22 SATURDAY, MARCH 18 Champ Stuart .............................@NoLie_Champ when the Mets host the Oakland A’s 1:05 p.m. at St. Louis Noah Syndergaard ........... @Noahsyndergaard Corey Taylor ....................................@CDTaylor33 7:10 p.m...The first 15,000 Mets fans in Mets: RHP Robert Gsellman, LHP Tom Logan Taylor .............................. @Loganreese36 attendance will get this one-of-a-kind Gorzelanny, LHP Josh Edgin, RHP Addison Reed, LHP Jerry Blevins Neil Walker .................................... @NeilWalker18 collectible courtesy of Delta Air Lines... Zack Wheeler .............................@Wheelerpro45 Cardinals: TBA Adam Wilk ......................................@AdamWilk58 Tickets are available now at www. mets.com/tickets. 2017 SPRING RESULTS DATE OPPONENT/LOCATION SCORE/TIME/TV/RADIO WP LP SV RECORD 2/24 @ Boston (Fort Myers) W, 3-2 Lugo (1-0) Owens (0-1) Robles (1) 1-0 2/25 Washington L, 6-8 Gonzalez (1-0) Gilmartin (0-1) -- 1-1 2/26 Detroit W, 5-2 Reed (1-0) Farmer (0-1) C. Taylor (1) 2-1 2/27 Houston L, 2-5 Yuhl (1-0) Gorzelanny (0-1) F. Valdez (1) 2-2 2/28 @ Miami (Jupiter) W, 3-1 Lugo (2-0) Ramos (0-1) Smoker (1) 3-2 3/1 @ St. Louis (Jupiter) L, 1-6 Martinez (1-0) Molina (0-1) -- 3-3 3/2 Miami W, 11-6 Familia (1-0) Straily (0-1) -- 4-3 3/3 Houston W, 11-3 Blevins (1-0) Rodgers (0-1) -- 5-3 3/4 @ Houston (West Palm) W, 3-1 C. Taylor (1-0) Paulino (0-1) Sewald (1) 6-3 3/5 St. Louis L, 11-14 Leake (1-0) Harvey (0-1) 6-4 3/6 @ Miami (Jupiter) W, 8-2 Bradford (1-0) Maronde (0-1) 7-4 3/7 Off Day 3/8 Boston W, 8-7 Wilk (1-0) Johnson (0-2) C. Taylor (2) 8-4 @ Houston (West Palm) L, 2-12 C. Morton (1-0) Gsellman (0-1) 8-5 3/9 Detroit T, 5-5 -- -- -- 8-5-1 3/10 Houston L, 6-7 Musgrove (1-0) Harvey (0-2) -- 8-6-1 @ Atlanta (Disney) L, 2-5 Collmenter (2-0) Molina (0-2) Jackson (2) 8-7-1 3/11 Washington L, 0-6 Fedde (1-0) Matz (0-1) -- 8-8-1 3/12 @ Detroit (Lakeland) L, 3-4 Pelfrey (1-3) Regnault (0-1) Baez (1) 8-9-1 3/13 Miami W, 6-4 Gsellman (1-1) Lobstein (0-1) Bradford (1) 9-9-1. 3/14 @ Houston (West Palm) W, 2-1 deGrom (1-0) McCullers Jr. (1-1) C. Taylor (3) 10-9-1. 3/15 @ Miami (Jupiter) L, 2-6 Nicolino (1-0) Harvey (0-3) Peters (1) 10-10-1 3/16 @ Washington (West Palm) 1:05 p.m. 3/17 St. Louis 1:10 p.m./SNY/WOR 3/18 @ St. Louis (Jupiter) 1:05 p.m. 3/19 Miami 1:10 p.m./PIX11/WOR 3/20 @ Detroit (Lakeland) 1:05 p.m./WOR 3/21 Off Day 3/22 Miami 1:10 p.m./SNY/WOR 3/23 @ Washington (West Palm) 1:05 p.m. 3/24 Houston 1:10 p.m./SNY 3/25 @ Atlanta (Disney) 1:05 p.m. 3/26 Atlanta 1:10 p.m./PIX11 3/27 Washington 1:10 p.m./WOR @ Miami (Jupiter) 1:05 p.m. 3/28 St. Louis 1:10 p.m./ESPN/SNY/WOR 3/29 @ Atlanta (Disney) 1:05 p.m. METS PITCHING BLEVINS, JERRY (LHP) GOEDDEL, ERIK (RHP) REED, ADDISON (RHP) SYNDERGAARD, NOAH (RHP) Date/Opp IP H R ER BB K Date/Opp IP H R ER BB K Date/Opp IP H R ER BB K Date/Opp IP H R ER BB K 2.25 WAS 1.0 2