New York Mets (11-11) St. Louis Cardinals (16-12) Tied for First Place, Nl East, -- Second Place, Nl Central, 1.0 Gb
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NEW YORK METS (11-11) ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (16-12) TIED FOR FIRST PLACE, NL EAST, -- SECOND PLACE, NL CENTRAL, 1.0 GB Monday, May 3, 2021 • 7:45 P.M. EST Busch Stadium • St. Louis, MO LHP Joey Lucchesi (0-1, 6.75) vs. RHP Adam Wainwright (0-3, 4.08) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • WQBU 92.7 FM ROSTER MOVES: Following last night's game, LHP Daniel Zamora was CARDINALS-METS NOTES: The Mets return to Busch Stadium for the first optioned to the team's Alternate Training Site...LHP Joey Lucchesi has been time since 2019...The Mets are 17-27 at the ballpark...The team is looking recalled from the team's Alternate Training Site and will start tonight's game... for their first series win in St. Louis since August 23-25, 2016. Lucchesi will make his third start (fourth game) and is 0-1 with a 6.75 ERA (six earned runs/8.0 innings) with two walks and 11 strikeouts. 2021: 0-0 2019: 2-5 History: 354--398 @NY: 0-0 @NY: 1-3 @NY: 178-195 PITCHER OF THE deMONTH: Congratulations to Jacob deGrom who was @STL: 0-0 @STL: 1-2 @STL: 176-203 named the National League Pitcher of the Month for April...The two-time Cy Young Award winner made five starts last month and went 2-2 with a 0.51 PICK SIX: Jeff McNeil went 4-6 with two runs and a double last night...Over ERA (two earned runs/35.0 innings) with four walks and 59 strikeouts...He his last six games he is batting .368 (7-19) with four runs, a double, a homer, tied Nolan Ryan (1978) for the most strikeouts through a pitcher's first five an RBI with a .455 OBP and a 1.033 OPS. appearances of a season (since 1893)...His 0.51 ERA after five starts is the lowest ERA in team history…David Cone held the previous record for lowest ITS BEEN TWO WEEKS: Over his 14 games, Michael Conforto is batting .327 ERA through five starts (0.72 ERA in 1988)...DeGrom finished the month (16-49) with five runs, five doubles, two home runs, six RBI, six walks, a .400 with 59 strikeouts and 0.51 ERA...It is the 279th instance since earned runs OBP and a .951 OPS...This compares to a .120/.313/.160 slash line over his became official of a pitcher having at least 55 strikeouts in a month and first seven games of the year...Conforto has hit 120 home runs in his career, deGrom’s ERA was the lowest of any of them...Courtesy of ESPN Stats & which ties him with Edgardo Alfonzo for 10th on the Mets all-time list...Kevin Info...Matt Harvey was the last Met to win the award, doing so in April of 2013. McReynolds is ninth with 122. METSELLANEOUS: The Mets defeated the Phillies, 8-7, last night...The Mets QUALITY EATS: Through 22 complete games this season, the Mets have have won two straight after losing three-in-a-row...The Mets claimed their made 12 quality starts...The Mets hurled 17 quality starts in 2020, going fourth series win of the year and their second on the road...The Mets are now 9-8 in those games...Mets starters are 7-9 and own a 2.66 ERA (36 earned back at .500 for the first time since they were 9-9...The Mets are in the midst runs/121.1 innings) with 35 walks and 146 strikeouts in 2021...The team's of a seven-game road trip against the Phillies (2-1) and Cardinals (four games). 2.66 starters' ERA is second in the majors and in the Senior Circuit. DONNIE BASEBALL: The Mets have scored 13 runs over their last two TOTAL DOMINATION: Dominic Smith is on a three-game hitting streak...He is games...The team had scored a total of 13 runs over their previous six games... batting .385 (5-13) with a run, two doubles and an RBI...Since the start of 2019, The Mets collected a season-high 17 hits last night...Over the last two games, Smith has played 160 games and owns a .288/.347/.534 slash line with 66 runs, the Mets are batting .325 (25-77) with eight extra-base hits, three walks and 35 doubles, a triple, 23 home runs, 75 RBI, 35 walks and an .880 OPS an .839 OPS...The team went 9-21 (.429) with runners in scoring position in the last two games...Their five hits with RISP was a season-high...The team STRIKE THAT: Mets pitchers have struck out 228 in 185.1 innings this had gone 3-30 with RISP in their previous five games...The Mets scored six season which equates to a 11.05 strikeout per nine ratio...The team's 11.05 runs in the eighth inning, which was a season-high. mark is the second-best in the majors and the NL...The team has walked only 60 this season, giving them a 2.91 walks per nine inning ratio, the WHEN YOU'RE HERE, YOU'RE FAMILIA: Jeureys Familia collected his first eighth-best in the majors and third-best in the NL. save of the season and his 124th as a member of the Mets..He ranks third all-time in saves for the club behind Armando Benitez (160) and John Franco EARNED BABY, EARNED: The Mets have allowed 19 unearned runs this (276)...After allowing an earned run in his first appearance of the season on season, which is the most in the majors...The Mets have played 22 games, April 6, Familia has made eight scoreless appearances (6.0 innings), allowing the fewest in MLB...On the other hand, the Mets have allowed only 64 earned five hits, three walks and striking out seven. runs allowed, also the fewest in the majors. CONNECT FOUR: The Mets are 9-1 when scoring four or more runs this FOR PETE'S SAKE: Pete Alonso has 74 home runs since he entered the season...The team is 2-11 when scoring three or fewer runs...Overall the team league in 2019....That is the highest total in the majors in that span...Alonso has scored 71 runs this year, the fewest in the majors...New York is averaging already ranks 27th on the Mets All-Time list...He trails Rusty Staub who is 3.23 runs per game, the second-fewest in the majors and the lowest in the 26th with 75. National League. ESQUIRE DAVIS: J.D. Davis is batting .390/.479/.610 with five runs, three RISPY BUSINESS: New York is 9-21 with runners in scoring position over doubles, two home runs, seven RBI and a 1.089 OPS in 14 games this year... their last two games...Overall, the team is batting .207 (36-174) with a .312 He has safely reached base in all 14 games this year and 16-game dating OBP with RISP this season...The team's .207 average with RISP is 29th in the back to last season...The 16-game on-base streak is a career-high...He owns majors and last in the NL...The Mets are batting .240/.305/.361 with no one a .381/.490/.595 slash line in that span. on base. HONORING HIS LEGACY: The New York Mets will wear a “41” Tom Seaver OUCH: The Mets have been plunked 16 times this year...That is the eighth- tribute patch on the right sleeve of their home and road uniforms during the highest total in the majors and sixth in the NL...Michael Conforto has been 2021 season...Seaver passed away on August 31, 2020 at age 75...Seaver hit four times, while J.D. Davis has been plunked three times...New York has won 311 games, had a 2.86 ERA and struck out 3,640 batters over a 20- been hit 156 times since the start of the 2019 season, the most in the majors. year major league career that spanned from 1967-1986, earning 12 All-Star selections in the process...He won three Cy Young Awards with the team IT'S GONNA BE MAY: After allowing two runs in his first appearance of the in 1969, 1973 and 1975 as well as the NL Rookie of the Year Award in 1967. season on April 5 in Philadelphia, Trevor May has made nine appearances, allowing only an unearned run on six hits with a walk and 13 strikeouts... THIS DAY IN METS HISTORY: On this day in 2006, the Mets defeated the Right-handed hitters are 4-21 against him with zero extra-base hits. Pirates, 4-3, via walk-off...The Mets surrendered a two-run lead in the top of the ninth only for Carlos Delgado to hit a solo homer in the 12th to notch ON THE ROAD AGAIN: The Mets are in stretch where 13 of their next 18 the team's 18th victory of the season...Pedro Martínez started the game and games will be on the road...New York is 5-7 away from Citi Field in 2021.. allowed only an earned run in 6.0 innings of work with nine punchouts...Chad The team owns a 4.30 ERA (47 earned runs/98.1 innings) with 39 walks and Bradford earned the win, tossing the final 2.0 innings...Delgado finished 121 strikeouts on the road, compared to a 6-4 record with a 1.75 ERA (17 2-4 with a run, two RBI, a walk, a homer and a double, while Endy Chavez earned runs/87.0 innings) with 21 walks and 107 strikeouts at home.