GAME NOTES New York Mets Media Relations Department • Citi Field • Flushing, NY 11386 | 718-565-4330 1969 1973 1986 1988 1999 2000 2006 WORLD NATIONAL WORLD N.L. EAST WILD CARD NATIONAL N.L. EAST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS DIVISION & NLDS LEAGUE & NLDS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS WINNERS CHAMPIONS CHAMPIONS NEW YORK METS (47-44) ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (58-33) SECOND PLACE, NL EAST, -3.0 GB FIRST PLACE, NL CENTRAL, +4.5 GA Sunday, July 19, 2015 • 2:15 p.m. (ET) Busch Stadium • St. Louis, MO LHP Jonathon Niese (5-8, 3.61) vs. LHP Tim Cooney (0-0, 4.34) SNY • WOR 710 AM • ESPN 1050 AM METSCELLANEOUS: The Mets have lost two straight after their METS-CARDINALS NOTES: The Mets are 5-16 at St. Louis since four-game winning streak...New York is 7-4 in its last 11 games...The 2009...The last time they won a series in St. Louis was in 2008 (2-1). Mets are 5-4 in their last nine road games and 15-30 overall on the road this year. 2015: 2-4 2014: 4-3 History 342-383 @NY: 2-2 @NY: 3-1 @NY: 172-187 SERIES NOTES: After dropping the first two games of the series, @STL 0-2 @STL: 1-2 @STL: 170-196 the Mets will look to avoid being swept by the Cardinals for the first time since April 21-23, 2009 at St. Louis...New York is now 4-10-1 NIESE NOTES: Has tossed seven straight quality starts, the in road series. second-longest such stretch of his career and tied for the fourth- DAY BASEBALL: New York is 22-8 (9-4 on the road) in day games longest active streak in the majors...Niese had 10 straight quality this year...The Mets own the best winning percentage (.733) in the starts from August 18, 2012-April 6, 2013...Since June 1, Niese has majors in day games...Daniel Murphy is fifth in the NL with a .341 posted a 2.64 ERA (14 earned runs/47.2 innings) going 2-3...His 2.64 batting average and eighth with .396 on-base percentage while ERA is the 13th-lowest in the NL over that span (min. 45.0 innings)... Lucas Duda is 12th in the NL with a .394 on-base percentage during Opponents have a flyball percentage of 24.9% against Niese, the day games (minimum 75 plate appearances). 10th-lowest mark in the National League...Lefthanded batters have a flyball percentage of just 14.3% against him this season, the sixth- FIRST PLACE TEAMS: The Mets are 0-2 in their string of 10 straight lowest mark among 127 qualified major league starters. games vs. first place clubs...After this series the Mets will travel to Washington for three games vs. the NL East-leading Nationals before PITCHING NOTES: Since July 5, the Mets pitching staff has hosting the NL West-leading Dodgers for four games. allowed 21 earned runs in 78.0 innings (2.42 ERA) with 21 walks and 73 strikeouts...During that stretch, the staff is hold opponents to a NL CENTRAL: New York is 8-17 vs. the NL Central this year, .206 batting average... Overall, New York is fourth in the majors including 1-11 vs. those clubs on the road...The Mets are 2-4 vs. St. with a 3.29 team ERA. Louis, 0-7 vs. the Cubs, 0-3 vs. Pittsburgh, 3-0 vs. Cincinnati and 3-3 vs. Milwaukee. STARTERS: Mets starters rank seventh in the majors with a 3.49 ERA...They are fifth in the majors with 502 strikeouts and have issued VS. ST. LOUIS: The Mets allowed a season-high 12 runs last night... the fourth fewest walks (125)... The starters have a 2.08 ERA (28 The Mets have allowed nine runs or more five times this year (three ER/121.0 IP) in their last 18 games (since June 25). times to the Cardinals). HELPING THEIR CAUSE: Mets pitchers lead the majors with 15 RUNS: The Mets have scored three or fewer runs 52 times this year, RBI...Atlanta is second with 11...New York pitchers also lead the the second-most in the majors, behind Seattle (53)...New York is 13- majors with 32 hits and are tied with San Francisco and Cincinnati 39 when scoring three runs or less...The 13 wins are tied for the with seven extra-base hits. seventh-most such wins. THE PEN: The Mets are fi fth in the majors with a 2.79 bullpen ERA. HOME RUNS: New York has homered in six straight games dating back to the series finale in San Francisco on July 8…It’s the longest JEURYS FAMILIA: Has allowed two earned runs in his last 24.0 streak with a home run since the club hit a home run in eight straight innings (0.75 ERA) and four earned runs in his last 38.2 innings contests from August 18-27, 2014...The Mets have scored 17 of their (0.93 ERA)...He is tied for fourth in the majors with 27 saves... His 27 last 19 runs on home runs (two of the four runs in this series, all 15 saves were the most in the first half in team history ...Francisco runs in their series vs. Arizona and the final two runs at San Francisco Rodriguez held the previous mark with 23...He ranks third in the NL on July 8). and sixth in the majors among relievers with a 1.25 ERA (minimum 30 innings). MORE HOME RUN NOTES: The Mets have hit 12 home runs over their last six games after not hitting a home run in a season-high nine RUBEN TEJADA: Has hit in six straight games, going 8-24 (.333) straight games from June 28-July 7...In addition, New York has hit with two RBI...Tejada is batting .333 (14-42) since July 3. nine home runs in its last four games. CURTIS GRANDERSON: Is 4-for-13 (.307) with one home run MICHAEL CUDDYER: Slugged a home run and collected three and one RBI over his last three games...He has fi ve leadoff home hits last night...Cuddyer had at least one hit in his last four starts and runs tied for the most in the majors with Minnesota’s Brian Dozier... three multi-hit games in his last four starts... Cuddyer is 8-17 (.471) He has nine career leadoff home runs, the second-most in team with two home runs and two RBI in his last four starts. history, behind Jose Reyes (16). LUCAS DUDA: Has hit two home runs and driven in four and GAME TIME CHANGE: ESPN has selected the Mets-Nationals for scored four times in his last fi ve games... Duda is tied with Bryce its stand alone national broadcast on August 2...The game originally Harper for the most home runs in the NL off a lefthander by scheduled to start at 1:10 p.m. at Citi Field will now begin at 8:08 p.m . a lefthander. JACOB deGROM T-SHIRT: Every fan attending the Mets-Dodgers KEVIN PLAWECKI: Is hitting .286 (8-28) this month, with three game on Friday, July 24 will take home a Jacob deGrom t-shirt on multi-hit games, including a two-hit performance last night...Since Free Shirt Friday. June 3, Plawecki has reached base safely in 17 of 21 games...He is HEART: Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Heart will perform a post game batting .302 (19-63) with fi ve doubles, fi ve RBI and a .352 on-base concert at Citi Field following the Mets-Dodgers 7:10 p.m. game on percentage during that span. Saturday, July 25...For tickets to Mets.com/Tickets or call 718-507-TIXX. UPCOMING OPPONENTS & PITCHING AT WASHINGTON Mon., July 20 RHP Matt Harvey (8-6, 3.07) vs. TBA 7:05 p.m. (SNY, ESPN, WOR 710 AM, ESPN1050) Tue., July 21 RHP Jacob deGrom (9-6, 2.14) vs. TBA 7:05 p.m. (SNY, WOR 710 AM, ESPN 1050) Wed., July 22 RHP Noah Syndergaard (4-5, 3.05) vs. TBA 12:35 p.m. (SNY, MLBN, WOR 710 AM, ESPN 1050) #49 JONATHON NIESE (5-8, 3.61) LHP Height: 6-3 Weight: 218 pounds Age: 28 (10/27/1986) NIESE’S 2015 PITCHING LOG (17 G, 17 GS) Born: Lima, OH Resides: Defiance, OH Signed Through: 2017 Date Opp. Dec. IP H R ER HR BB K P-S ERA 4/10 @Atl ND, 3-5 5.0 7 3 1 1 2 2 86-51 1.80 vs. Opp vs. Opp Busch 4/15 Phi W, 6-1 6.1 9 1 1 0 2 4 94-58 1.59 Pitcher 2015 2014 Career 2015 Career Stadium 4/21 Atl W, 7-1 6.2 4 1 1 1 4 5 106-67 1.50 RHP Michael Wacha 10-3, 2.93 5-6, 3.20 19-10, 3.00 1-0, 2.57 3-1, 2.74 11-2, 2.41 4/26 @NYY L, 4-6 5.0 8 6 4 1 1 3 86-61 2.74 LHP Jonathon Niese 5-8, 3.61 9-11, 3.40 57-59, 3.84 0-1, 14.40 4-3, 3.63 1-1, 3.38 5/2 Was L, 0-1 7.0 9 1 1 0 1 5 107-73 2.40 5/9 @Phi W, 3-2 7.0 5 2 0 0 1 6 90-62 1.95 NIESE’S STATISTICAL BREAKDOWN 5/14 @ChC L, 5-6 6.1 6 6 4 1 1 2 90-56 2.49 5/19 Stl L, 2-10 5.0 11 8 8 1 1 1 92-62 3.72 CATEGORY AB H HR BB SO AVG 5/24 @Pit L, 1-9 4.2 7 4 4 1 4 6 104-60 4.08 vs.