BOSTON RED SOX (15-9) NEW YORK METS (9-9) FIRST PLACE, AL EAST, 3.0 GA FIRST PLACE, NL EAST, 0.5 GA Wednesday, April 28, 2021 • 6:40 P.M. Citi Field • Flushing, NY RHP Nick Pivetta (2-0, 3.48) vs. RHP Jacob deGrom (2-1, 0.31) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • WQBU 92.7 FM METSELLANEOUS: The Mets fell to the Red Sox, 2-1, last night...Tonight is RED SOX METS NOTES: The Mets have lost three straight and five of their the final game of a five-game, six-day homestand (2-2) against Washington last six to the Red Sox at Citi Field (2-1) and Boston (0-1)...Following this series, the Mets take a day off before traveling to Philadelphia (three games) and St. Louis (four games). 2021: 0-1 2020: 2-2 History: 14-18 @NY: 0-1 @NY: 0-2 @NY: 6-12 CONNECT FOUR: The Mets are 7-1 when scoring four or more runs this @BOS: 0-0 @BOS: 2-0 @BOS: 8-6 season...The team is 2-8 when scoring three or fewer runs...Overall the team has scored 57 runs this year, the fewest in the majors...New York is averaging STRIKE THAT: Mets pitchers have struck out 180 in 150.1 innings this season 3.17 runs per game, the second-fewest in the majors and the lowest in the which equates to a 10.75 strikeout per nine ratio...The team's 10.75 mark is National League...Despite this, the Mets are batting .242 on the season, the second-best in the majors...The team has walked only 49 this season, which is the third-highest batting average in the NL and the seventh-highest giving them a 2.93 walks per nine inning ratio, the eighth-best in the majors in the majors...The team's .323 OBP is third-best in the NL and sixth-best in and fourth-best in the NL. the MLB. LIVING IT UP THE CITI: The Mets are now 6-3 at Citi Field this season...The AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 STARTS: Jacob deGrom has 2.00 ERA over team owns a 1.84 ERA (16 earned runs/78.0 innings) with 20 walks and 92 his last 80 starts since the start of 2018...That is by far the best mark in the strikeouts...The Mets are batting .254/.343/.386 at their home ballpark...This major leagues in that span, more than a half-run better than the next-closest compares to a 3-6 record on the road this year with a 4.60 ERA (37 earned pitcher (Justin Verlander is second with a 2.56 ERA since 2018)...Since 1969, runs/72.1 innings) with a .231/.305/.349 slash line. only three other pitchers have held an ERA of 2.00 or lower over an 80-start span - Greg Maddux, Clayton Kershaw and Pedro Martinez. ESQUIRE DAVIS: J.D. Davis is batting .394/.459/.636 with five runs, two doubles, two home runs, six RBI and a 1.096 OPS in 11 games this year... SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE: Jacob deGrom has the highest strikeout rate He has safely reached base in all 11 games this year...It is tied for the third- among all qualified pitchers, whiffing nearly half of all batters he's faced this longest on-base streak of his career...His career-high is 15 games, from July season (49.5 percent)...Meanwhile, tonight's opponent, the Boston Red Sox, 26-August 11, 2020...Davis owns a career .311/.389/.554 slash line with 37 strike out less than half as often as a team, boasting the fifth-lowest strikeout extra-base hits and a .944 OPS in 102 career games at Citi Field...His .944 rate in the majors (22 percent)...To compare, deGrom has nearly as many OPS at Citi Field is the highest by a Met at the ballpark (min.100 PA). strikeouts (50) in his 29.0 innings pitched as the Red Sox offense has in their last six games (51). WE LIKE MIKE: Over his 10 games, Michael Conforto is batting .314 (11-35) with two runs, four doubles, a home run, an RBIn, three walks, a .368 OBP and JAKE & THE FRANCHISE: After last week's shutout, Jacob deGrom lowered a .883 OPS...Conforto has hit 119 home runs in his career, placing him 11th his career ERA to 2.55, moving ahead of Tom Seaver atop the all-time Mets on the Mets all-time list...Edgardo Alfonzo is 10th with 120 dingers...His 61 ERA leaderboard (min. 1,000 innings)...Seaver is second with a 2.57 ERA... home runs at Citi Field rank second All-Time...Lucas Duda is the ballpark's deGrom lowered his season ERA to 0.31, which leads the major leagues...He all-time leader with 71 blasts. has a 2.00 ERA since the start of 2018, the best mark in the majors. NOTABLE NUMBERS: Francisco Lindor is one steal away from 100 for his 14 GOING ON 50: Jacob deGrom has punched 50 out through four starts this career...He is eight doubles away from 200 and 91 hits away from 1,000... season, the most ever in a pitcher’s first four starts of a season...He is the 15th Michael Conforto is five RBI away from 350. pitcher to record 50 or more strikeouts in any four-game span...He is the third pitcher in major league history to strike out 14 or more in three consecutive EARNED BABY, EARNED: The Mets have allowed 16 unearned runs this games, joining Gerrit Cole (2019) and Pedro Martinez (1999), and he is the season, which is tied for the most in the majors...The Mets have played 19 first pitcher ever to record 14 or more strikeouts and one or no walks in three games, the fewest in MLB...On the other hand, the Mets have allowed only consecutive games. 53 earned runs allowed, also the fewest in the majors. This marked the third time deGrom's career that he struck of 10 1010 WINS: WE FOUND NIMMO: Brandon Nimmo is batting .364/.470/.491 with seven or more batters in three straight games...It's tied for the third-longest streak runs, four doubles, a home run, eight RBI, 10 walks and a .977 OPS in 17 in franchise history...David Cone struck out 10 batters in four straight games games this season..He is tied for fourth in the majors in batting average and from June 30-July 19, 1990 and Dwight Gooden did it in five straight games in on-base percentage. from August 27-September 17, 1984. FOR PETE'S SAKE: Pete Alonso has 74 home runs since he entered the JAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKE: Jacob deGrom recorded his 49th career double- league in 2019....That is the highest total in the majors in that span...Alonso digit strikeout game last week...It was his third in a row, tied for the longest already ranks 27th on the Mets All-Time list...He trails Rusty Staub who is streak of his career (third time)....He has allowed more than three earned runs 26th with 75. once in his last 24 starts at Citi Field (since May 1, 2019)...He owns a 1.63 home ERA (29 ER/160.0 IP) in that stretch. QUALITY EATS: Through 18 complete games this season, the Mets have made 11 quality starts...The Mets hurled 17 quality starts in 2020, going 9-8 in A HIT’S A HIT: Jacob deGrom extended his hitting streak to five games, tied those games...Mets starters are 7-7 and own a 2.71 ERA (30 earned runs/99.1 for the longest by a Mets pitcher since 2000 (Mike Hampton)...The franchise innings) with 30 walks and 117 strikeouts in 2021...The team's 2.71 starters' record is a six-game hitting streak done by Jerry Koosman (September 16, ERA is third in the majors and in the Senior Circuit. 1974-April 22, 1975)...DeGrom is batting .545 (6-11) with three runs, a double and two RBI this season...He leads all MLB pitchers in batting average. HONORING HIS LEGACY: The New York Mets will wear a “41” Tom Seaver tribute patch on the right sleeve of their home and road uniforms during the THE PEN IS MIGHTIER: The Mets bullpen has pitched to a 1.10 ERA (two 2021 season...Seaver passed away on August 31, 2020 at age 75...Seaver earned runs/16.1 innings) with four walks and 22 strikeouts over their last won 311 games, had a 2.86 ERA and struck out 3,640 batters over a 20- four games...Relivers have posted a 2.08 ERA (five earned runs/21.2 innings) year major league career that spanned from 1967-1986, earning 12 All-Star with eight walks and 27 punch outs in eight games at Citi Field this season. selections in the process...He won three Cy Young Awards with the team in 1969, 1973 and 1975 as well as the NL Rookie of the Year Award in 1967. THEY'RE OUT OF OUR LEAGUE: The Mets continue Interleague Play tonight against the Red Sox...The Mets are 0-1 in Interleague play this year THIS DAY IN METS HISTORY: On this day in 2006, Pedro Martínez outdueled and went 9-11 against the American League last year...Despite that, the team John Smoltz as the Mets defeated the Braves, 5-2, in Atlanta...Each pitcher owns the second-best Interleague winning percentage in NL history...Their went 7.0 innings as Martínez allowed two runs on four hits with a walk and .513 winning percentage (217-206) is the second-best mark in the Senior five strikeouts...He improved to 5-0 on the season...David Wright blasted Circuit vs.