GAMENew York Mets Media Relations Department NOTES • Citi Field • 41 Seaver Way 718-565-4330 | mets.com | @mets | @mets | @mets NEW YORK METS (3-6) ATLANTA BRAVES (6-3) FIFTH PLACE, NL EAST, -3.0 GB FIRST PLACE, NL EAST, +1.0 GA Sunday, August 2, 2020 • 1:10 p.m. Truist Park • Atlanta, GA LHP David Peterson (1-0, 3.18) vs. RHP Kyle Wright (0-1, 16.88) SNY • TBS • WCBS 880 AM • WQBU 92.7 FM ROSTER MOVES: RHP Jared Hughes has been reinstated from the IL and BRAVES-METS NOTES: The Mets are playing at Truist Park for the first added to the team’s 30-man active roster...He will wear #35...RHP Franklyn time this year...The Mets own a 14-17 lifetime record at the new home Kilome has been optioned to the team’s Alternate Training Site...INF Jed of the Braves...Offensively, the team collectively owns a .272/.353/.437 Lowrie has been transferred to the 45-day IL...Hughes went 5-5 with a 4.04 slash line with 31 home runs at the ballpark. ERA in 72 combined games with the Reds and Phillies last year...He has appeared in 60 or more games in each of the last six seasons...Hughes 2020: 1-4 2019: 8-11 History: 391-472-1 posted a 1.94 ERA in 72 games with Cincinnati in 2018. @NY 1-2 @NY: 4-5 @NY: 215-218-1 @ATL 0-2 @ATL: 4-6 @ATL: 171-223 METSELLANEOUS: The Mets fell to the Braves, 7-1, last night...New York has @MIL: 5-31 dropped four in a row after winning two straight...The Mets are looking to avoid their third series loss today. TWENTY, TWENTY, TWENTY FOUR GAMES AGO: Brandon Nimmo has ESCAPE FROM ATLANTA: The Mets are 2-8 in their last 10 games at safely reached base in all nine games this season...Nimmo has reached base Atlanta...The pitching staff has a 8.01 ERA (73 earned runs/82.0 innings) safely in each of his last 24 games dating back to last season...He is batting during those 10 games...Despite that, the team owns a .317/.386/.469 slash .290 (9-31) with seven runs, two doubles, a home run, three RBI and five line with 10 home runs in that span. walks this year...He owns a .436 OBP and a .888 OPS...The 24-game on- base streak is the second-longest in his career...Nimmo safely reached base PUT THE “IMPRESS” IN FIRST IMPRESSION: David Peterson is looking to in 28 straight games from August 11-September 21, 2018...In addition, Nimmo become the fifth pitcher in Mets history who has started and won his first two has scored a run in each of his last five games, tied for the longest streak of major league games...Steven Matz was the last to do so in 2015...The others his career (third time). are Dick Selma (1965), Gary Gentry (1969) and Mike Pelfrey (2006)...There are 49 southpaws in the modern era who have made the start and earned BULLPEN NOTES: The Mets rank 29th in the majors with a 6.81 bullpen ERA the win in each of their first two major league appearances...Today, Peterson after nine games...Last year, the Mets pen ranked 26th in the majors with a aims to be the 50th to join that club...Only 31 pitchers since 1900 have started 4.99 ERA...The pen’s 4.99 ERA was the highest in franchise history...Mets and won each of their first two big league games with each of those games relievers are tied for first in the majors with three losses this season and are coming on the road and only 10 lefties have done so. third in the majors with three blown saves...The pen is fourth in the majors allowing eight homers. LEFT IS ALRIGHT: Peterson is just the third left-handed pitcher ever selected by the Mets in the first round to win a game for New York (others: 1967 fourth- HE’S HEATING UP: Jeff McNeil went 1-3 with two walks last night...Over his overall selection Jon Matlack and 1965 second-overall pick Les Rohr)...The last five starts, McNeil is batting .421 (8-19) with two runs, a double, four walks Mets have chosen nine LHP in the first round in franchise history. and four RBI...This compares to his first three starts where he went 1-10. HERE’S TO YOUR MR. ROBINSON: Robinson Canó has reached base JUST THE HITS: The Mets are second in the major leagues with 81 hits this safely six straight games and is on a five-game hitting streak, batting .625 season, are fourth with a .259 batting average and sixth with a .340 OBP... (10-16) with three runs, two doubles, a home run, two walks and four RBI The Mets have recorded four games where they racked up 10 or more hits in that span...He has recorded multiple hits in four of those five games... this season, which leads the majors...In 2019, the Mets recorded 69 such He ranks third among active players in hits (2,581), RBI (1,276), total bases games, the fifth-most in the majors and the second-most in the National (4,186), extra-base hits (922) and in runs scored (1,238). League...Colorado recorded 77 such games. CONFORTOBLY NUMB: Michael Conforto has safely reached base in all ON THE ROAD AGAIN: The Mets are 2-2 on the road this year...This nine games this season...He is batting .313 (10-32) with three runs, a double, compares to 1-4 at home...The team was an NL-best 21-12 on the road in the a home run, four walks, a steal and three RBI...Conforto has hit 110 home runs second half of the 2019 season...The Mets finished winning 13 of their last 20 in his career which is 12th on the Mets all-time list...Ed Kranepool is 11th with and four of their last five games on the road...Overall, the team went 38-43 118 followed by Edgardo Alfonso who is 10th with 120. on the road last year after finishing 40-41 on the road in 2018. WELCOME TO THE SHOW: Franklyn Kilome became the third player THE NEW KID: Andrés Giménez is hitting .308 (4-13) with two runs, a triple, to make his major league debut with the Mets this year, joining Andrés an RBI and a steal in eight games...Giménez entered the season as the Giménez and David Peterson...With Peterson’s addition to the roster, the third-best Mets prospect and the No. 84 overall prospect in the majors, Mets now have four of their first-round selections on their active roster... per MLB Pipeline...After spending the 2019 season with Binghamton (AA), Peterson (20th overall pick in 2017) joins Michael Conforto (10th overall, the Venezuelan shortstop led the Arizona Fall League with a .371 (26-70) 2014), Dominic Smith (11th overall, 2013) and Brandon Nimmo (13th overall, average and .999 OPS. 2011) as Mets first-rounders on the active roster. SIXTY-GAME SPRINT: Over the final 60 games of the 2019 season, the AMED IN THE ATL: Rosario has collected 30 hits at Truist Park, the most by any Mets’ 39-21 mark tied for the second-best in the majors and co-led the NL... Met...He has hit .326 (30-92) with 16 runs, seven doubles, two triples, two home Only one team, the Astros (42-18), had a better record in the season’s last 60 run, 15 RBI, five steals and an .837 OPS in 22 career games at Truist Park. games...The Rays, Twins, Dodgers and A’s all also ended last year on a 39- 21 run...See the chart below for the Mets’ best 60-game starts to a season: ESQUIRE DAVIS: J.D. Davis is batting .421 (8-19) with four runs, two home run, two walks and six RBI over his last six games...This comes after starting METS' BEST THROUGH FIRST 60 GAMES the season 0-3 in his first two games...J.D. Davis ranked 10th in the NL with a 136 wRC+ (weighted runs created plus) and was 17th in the NL with a .373 Stat Player (Year) Stat Player (Year) wOBA (weighted on-base average) last season. 84 Hits Reyes ('11) 50 Runs Alfonzo ('00) 22 HR Kingman ('76) .369 Average Piazza ('00) OUCH: The Mets have been hit by 12 pitches this season, which ranks 20 Doubles Beltran ('09) 10 Wins 4 times second in the majors...The Cubs have been hit by 14 pitches...Pete Alonso Alfonzo ('00) 129 Strikeouts Seaver ('70) and Brandon Nimmo have each been hit by three pitches, tied for second 11 3B Reyes ('11) 1.47 ERA Koosman (‘68) 49 RBI Gilkey ('96) 21 Saves Familia ('16) in the majors...The Mets were hit by a major league leading 95 pitches last 34 XBH Alonso ('19) 127.0 IP Seaver ('70) season...That was a franchise record, surpassing their total of 73 in 2018... Alfonzo ('00) 44-16 record 1986 Mets Alonso and Jeff McNeil were plunked 21 times each last season, the second- highest total in franchise history...That also placed them tied for fifth in MLB. UPCOMING OPPONENTS & PITCHING AT ATLANTA Mon., August 3 RHP Jacob deGrom (0-0, 1.64) vs. RHP Mike Soroka (0-0, 1.59) 7:10 p.m.