PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (35-38) NEW YORK METS (39-32) TIED FOR THIRD PLACE, NL EAST, 5.0 GB FIRST PLACE, NL EAST, 4.0 GA Saturday, June 26, 2021 • 4:10 P.M. Citi Field • Flushing, NY RHP Zach Eflin (2-6, 4.39 ERA) vs. RHP Jacob deGrom (7-2, 0.50) WPIX • WCBS 880 AM • WQBU 92.7 FM METSELLANEOUS: The Mets split a doubleheader with the Phillies yesterday...The PHILLIES-METS NOTES: The Mets own a 60-50 record against the Phillies at Citi teams traded 2-1 wins as the Mets won game one, then fell in the nightcap...With a win Field. today, the Mets would guarantee at least a .500 homestand...The Mets have been in first place since Saturday, May 8...This is their longest streak atop the NL East since the end of the 2015 season...The Mets continue a six-day, eight-game homestand (3- 2021: 7-4 2020: 4-6 History: 496-531-1 3) against Atlanta (2-2) and Philadelphia (1-1)...Following this series, the Mets hit the @NY: 4-1 @NY: 2-2 @NY: 252-259-1 road for the final time before the All-Star break...The team will visit Washington D.C. @PHI: 3-3 @PHI: 2-4 @PHI: 244-272 (one game), Atlanta (three games) and head to The Bronx (three games). SMILE LIKE YOU MEAN IT: Francisco Lindor recorded his 200th career doubled HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Hitting Coach Hugh Quattlebaum celebrates his 40th birthday yesterday...He is just the third shortstop in MLB history with 200 or more doubles today. and 100 or more steals in their first seven seasons, joining Jimmy Rollins (231 2B/ 207 SB) and Hanley Ramirez (214 2B/216 SB)...Courtesy of Sports Radar...He is the 14th THIS IS 40: The Mets are seeking their 40th win today in their 72nd game of the shortstop with at least 200 doubles by his seventh major league season...He joined second...If the team wins today, it would mark the fastest the Mets have reached 40 Xander Bogaerts and Starlin Castro as the other active shortstop to accomplish wins since 2010, when they won 40 of their first 70 games...Courtesy of Sports Radar. the feat...He is now three home runs away from 150 for his career...He is batting .258/.340/.494 with 17 runs, four doubles, a triple, five home runs, 14 RBI and nine APPROACHING UNCHARTED TERRITORY: Jacob deGrom has a 0.50 ERA through walks in 25 games this month. 12 starts this season...There have been only two other occurrences of a pitcher holding a 0.50 ERA or lower over any single-season 12-start span in major league HOME, SWEET HOME: The Mets have won 17 of their last 23 home games...The history (min. 20.0 IP to exclude openers) - Jake Arrieta had a 0.41 ERA over his last team has lost back-to-back home games only twice this season...Overall, the Mets 12 starts of his 2015 Cy Young season and Bob Gibson threw 12 complete games in a are 23-10 with a 2.05 ERA (65 earned runs/285.0 innings) with 98 walks and 324 row, including eight shutouts, in 1968 to post a 0.50 ERA over that stretch...The best strikeouts at home...The team's 2.05 ERA at home is the best in the majors and their 13-start stretches by ERA also belong to Gibson (0.53) and Arrieta (0.57). .697 winning percentage is second...This compares to a 16-22 record with a 3.97 ERA (139 earned runs/315.0 innings) with 104 walks and 347 strikeouts on the road NO SCORING ALLOWED: With an active 30.0-inning scoreless streak, deGrom is 1.0 this year...The team will play just seven more road games before the All-Star break, inning shy of tying his career-high and 3.0 IP away from breaking R.A. Dickey's all- including three at Yankee Stadium. time club mark...See below for the longest scoreless streaks in Mets history: MOVING ON UP: Michael Conforto is tied for 10th with Edgardo Alfonso on the Mets LONGEST INDIVIDUAL SCORELESS STREAKS IN METS HISTORY All-Time home run list with 120...Kevin McReynolds is next with 122 homers...Pete Alonso is tied for 23rd on the list with Keith Hernandez...Cliff Floyd is 22nd with 81 Player Year IP Player Year IP blasts. R.A. Dickey 2012 32.2 Bartolo Colon 2015 31.0 Jerry Koosman 1973 31.2 Tom Seaver 1971 31.0 FLIP, FLIP, FLIPADELPHIA: Jeff McNeil owns a .348/.423/.494 slash line with 27 runs, Jacob deGrom 2019-20 31.0 Jacob deGrom **2021** 30.0 10 doubles, two triples, four home runs, 17 RBI and 16 walks in 48 career games Dwight Gooden 1984 31.0 Tom Seaver 1975 28.0 against Philadelphia...Dominic Smith is a lifetime .294/.342/.548 hitter with nine home runs against the club...His nine home runs are his highest total against any one opponent...Michael Conforto has hit .275/.366/.542 against the Phils with 55 runs, CAN'T TOUCH THIS: Jacob deGrom is the major league leader in all three opponent 19 doubles, 21 home runs, 66 RBI and 42 walks...His 21 homers are also the highest slashline categories, holding his foes to a .113/.148/.205 line...He has allowed just 27 hits against any one opponent...That is tied for the fifth most home runs among active in 72.0 innings over 12 starts this season...Even with the minimum set to 50.0 inning, his players against the Phillies...Pete Alonso has hit .276/.354/.490 with seven homers 27 hits allowed are the fewest ever in a 12-start span...He has allowed three hits or fewer and 22 RBI against the team. in 10 consecutive starts, the longest streak ever by a non-opener SP. QUALITY EATS: The starting rotation has put up a 1.68 ERA (17 earned runs/91.0 HE'S CHASING YU: DeGrom sits 24 strikeouts away from the 1,500-K mark for his innings) with 23 walks and 103 strikeouts over the last 18 games...Overall, the Mets career...Yu Darvish, in his last start, reached that mark faster than any pitcher in major have made 30 quality starts this season...The Mets starting rotation owns a 2.61 ERA league history (197 games)...DeGrom is making his 196th start today...He can match (102 earned runs/352.0 innings) this season, the best mark in the major leagues... Darvish's pace if he averages a dozen strikeouts over his next two starts...Randy deGrom leads the major leagues with a 0.50 ERA, while Marcus Stroman is 11th in the Johnson held the mark before Darvish, reaching 1,500 strikeouts in 206 games. majors with a 2.32 mark...Taijuan Walker is 14th with a 2.42 ERA. THREE'S COMPANY: The Mets have allowed three runs or fewer in 21 of their last 22 CONNECT FOUR: The Mets are 30-5 when scoring four or more runs this season... home games...The team owns a 2.11 ERA (44 earned runs/188.0 innings) in that span The team is 8-27 when scoring three or fewer runs...The Mets are 33-7 when scoring with 72 walks and 209 strikeouts...They are the first team to do so in any span of 22 first this season...The team's .825 winning percentage is the best record in the major home games since the 1917 World Series Champion White Sox...Courtesy of Stats Inc. leagues when scoring first this season. REPLACE-METS: Entering today, the Mets have used 48 players through 71 games GET WELL SOON!: RHP Dellin Betances is currently on a rehab appearance with this season...That is the second-most in the majors...The Milwaukee Brewers lead Syracuse...He allowed three runs, hit a batter, walked two and struck out one in 0.1 MLB with 49 players used...The team used a total of 47 players in 2020...The franchise inning yesterday...Overall he has appeared in five games between St. Lucie and record for most players used in a season is 56 by the 2018 Mets...The Mets have had Syracuse, allowing eight earned runs on seven hits with five walks and six strikeouts 12 different pitchers start a game for the Mets this season...The Mets used 10 starters in 3.2 innings...He has been on the IL since April 8 with a right shoulder impingement... in 2020...The franchise record is 20 starters used in 1967. OF Brandon Nimmo is on a rehab assignment with Syracuse...He went 1-5 with a run, a double and started in centerfield...He has appeared in five games with Syracuse THREW ME FOR A LOUP: Aaron Loup has made 11 straight scoreless appearances, and is 3-12 (.250) with four runs, a double and a walk...Nimmo has been on the 10-Day allowing five hits and striking out 15 in 11.1 innings...Overall, he is 2-0 with a 1.59 ERA IL since May 5 with a left index finger bone bruise. (four earned runs/22.2 innings) with 19 hits, three walks and 28 strikeouts...He has held left-handed hitters to a .200 (6-30) batting average this season. 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 2021 season..