NEW YORK METS (25-20) ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS (19-35) FIRST PLACE, NL EAST, 3.5 GA FIFTH PLACE, NL WEST, 15.0 GB Monday, May 31, 2021 • 9:40 P.M. EST Chase Field • Phoenix, AZ RHP Jacob deGrom (3-2, 0.80) vs. RHP Merrill Kelly (2-5, 4.84) SNY • WCBS 880 AM • WQBU 92.7 FM ROSTER MOVES: Prior to tonight's game, the Mets announced the following The Mets have won seven straight against roster moves...RHP Sean Reid Foley, C Patrick Mazeika and OF Khalil Lee were DIAMONDBACKS-METS NOTES: optioned to Triple-A Syracuse yesterday...OF Cameron Maybin and RHP Sam the Diamondbacks...This is tied for the second-longest winning streak against McWilliams have been designated for assignment...INF Pete Alonso (right hand the franchise (also, June 1, 2005-May 29, 2006)...Their longest is an eight- sprain) and OF Kevin Pillar (multiple facial fractures) have been activated from game winning streak from May 31, 2006-May 5, 2007. the 10-Day IL...RHP Seth Lugo (right elbow surgery) has been activated from the 60-Day IL...OF Mason Williams has been selected to the major league roster and 2021: 3-0 2019: 5-2 History: 82-74 will be active tonight…He will wear #70. @NY: 3-0 @NY: 4-0 @NY: 43-37 @AZ: 0-0 @AZ: 1-2 @AZ: 39-37 METSELLANEOUS: The Mets were once again rained out last night...The team has won four in a row...They are now a season-high five games above .500 for the STARTING OFF: The Mets starting rotation owns a 2.79 ERA (69 earned second time this year (also, 18-13 on May 12)...The Mets have been in first place runs/222.2 innings) this season, the best mark in the major leagues...The team for 27 days, since Saturday May 8...This is the longest streak in first place since has made 19 quality starts this season...The Mets hurled 17 quality starts in 2020, the end of the 2015 season...The Mets are 6-4 in their last 10 games...Today, the going 9-8 in those games. Mets head west for a three-city, nine-game, 10-day road trip to Arizona (three games), San Diego (four games) and Baltimore (two games). WHAT A RELIEF: The Mets bullpen has allowed three runs in their last six games, a total of 19.1 innings...The pen has allowed eight hits and 11 walks with 22 MEMORIAL DAY: The Mets are 27-32 all-time on Memorial Day...Today, all on- strikeouts in that span...Overall this year, the team's relievers have posted a 3.51 field MLB personnel (players, managers, coaches, umpires) on the Mets and ERA (62 earned runs/159.0 innings) with 63 walks and 185 strikeouts...Their 3.51 teams across Major League Baseball will honor those who have sacrificed their ERA ranks sixth in the majors and third in the Senior Circuit. life for our freedoms by donning the traditional Memorial Day red poppy on the left side of their jerseys with “Lest We Forget” language connected...The right MAY I?: New York is 16-9 in May…Their .640 winning percentage this month is side of their caps will feature the stars & stripes silhouetted batter with language fifth in the majors and third-best in the NL...The team's 16 wins in May surpasses depicting “Memorial Day.” its April total...The team has posted a 3.23 ERA (77 earned runs/214.1 innings) this month...The team has not recorded 17 wins in the month of May since they went FIVE FOR FIGHTING: The Mets hit a season-high five home runs on Saturday 19-9 in 2009...The team's .640 winning percentage this month is the eighth-best night...Their highest total since hitting five vs. Philadelphia on September 6 last in franchise history...The 1972 team owns the record with a .750 (21-2) winning year...The Mets are 16-11 when hitting at least one home run and 5-3 when hitting percentage. two or more bombs...The Mets have hit 39 home runs this year, the second-fewest in the majors...New York hit 86 blasts in 2020, the ninth-most in the majors and CONNECT FOUR: The Mets are 19-4 when scoring four or more runs this season... the fifth most in the NL...On the other hand, the Mets have allowed only 31 home The team is 6-16 when scoring three or fewer runs...The Mets are 21-5 when runs this season which is the fewest in MLB...The own a 0.73 home runs per 9 IP scoring first this season...The team's .808 winning percentage when scoring first ratio...That is second in the majors and in the NL. is second-best in the majors...The Mets trail only the Cardinals (22-5, .815) when scoring first this season. WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN: The Mets have played the fewest games in the majors...The Mets have had three games postponed due to COVID-19 safety DO NOT WALK: Mets pitchers have walked only 128 in 45 games this season, the protocol, one suspended game due to rain, another postponed due to snow and lowest mark in the majors...The team owns a 3.02 walks per 9 IP ratio, which is six additional postponements due to rain...The team’s 10 postponements are the seventh in the majors and fourth in the NL. most in the majors...The Twins are second with six postponements. AW SUGAR, SUGAR: Edwin Díaz has converted 150 saves in his career...He now ON deLEADERBOARD: Jacob deGrom enters tonight's start leading the majors has the second-most all-time by a Puerto Rican-born reliever…Roberto Hernández with a 0.80 ERA (four earned runs/45.0 innings), a 0.60 WHIP, a 14.80 K/9, a .132 is first with 326 saves...He is now 14th all-time in Mets history with 41 saves...Ron (20-151) batting average against, a .170 OBP against...Despite missing two weeks Taylor is next with 49 saves...Díaz has not allowed a run in any of his nine save and being skipped in the rotation once before that, ranks tied for 11th in the NL opportunities this season...He has struck out 27 in 20 games (20.1 innings) this with 74 strikeouts. season, good for a 11.95 strikeout per 9 IP ratio...He has struck out 176 batters since the start of the 2019 season...That is the fourth-most by a reliever in that SEVENTH HEAVEN: DeGrom is off to one of the best starts in major league time frame. history, posting a 0.60 WHIP and 0.80 ERA through his first seven outings over 45.0 innings...There have been nearly 8,000 (7,886 to be exact) individual starting REPLACE-METS: The Mets have used 42 players through 45 games this pitcher seasons that have begun with at least 45.0 innings through seven starts and season...The team used a total of 47 players in 2020...The franchise record for deGrom's 0.60 WHIP is second only to Chris Sale's 2014 season, when he started most players used in a season is 56 by the 2018 Mets...New York has used nine out with a very slightly lower 0.596 WHIP in his first seven starts...Only 15 pitchers starters this year...The Mets used 10 starters in 2020...The franchise record is 20 have had a lower ERA through seven starts (min. 45.0 IP)...The last pitcher with a starters used in 1967. lower ERA in his first seven starts of a season was Kris Medlen (0.54 ERA in 2012 for Atlanta)...The only Mets pitcher with a better ERA through seven starts is Johan TOMÁS THE TANK ENGINE: Tomás Nido is batting .263/.311/.491 with six extra- Santana (0.78 ERA in 2009). base hits and 11 RBI in 22 games this year...He has safely hit in eight of his last nine games, going 10-31 with five runs, two doubles, two home runs and eight RBI...He With 17 more strikeouts, deGrom will pass Sid Fernandez (1,449) MOVIN' ON UP: owns a .778 OPS in 16 starts this season...He is batting .364 (4-11) with runners in and move into fourth on the all-time Mets strikeout list...He currently ranks tied for scoring position with one home run and seven RBI. eighth in club history with 190 starts (Jon Matlack, 199, is seventh)...He cracked the top-10 in innings pitched by a Met on May 9 and is 1.1 innings away from passing HONORING HIS LEGACY: The New York Mets will wear a “41” Tom Seaver tribute Bobby J. Jones for ninth on that list...He ranks 10th with 73 career wins, one behind patch on the right sleeve of their home and road uniforms during the 2021 season... Bobby J. Jones...His career ERA currently sits at 2.54...That is the best mark in Mets Seaver passed away on August 31, 2020 at age 75...Seaver won 311 games, had history (min. 1,000.0 innings pitched), passing Tom Seaver (2.57 ERA). a 2.86 ERA and struck out 3,640 batters over a 20-year major league career that ON THE ROAD AGAIN: This Mets are 10-15 with a 4.25 ERA (98 earned runs/207.2 spanned from 1967-1986, earning 12 All-Star selections in the process...He won innings) with 69 walks and 240 strikeouts on the road this year...This compares three Cy Young Awards with the team in 1969, 1973 and 1975 as well as the NL to a 15-5 record with a 1.81 ERA (35 earned runs/174.0 innings) with 59 walks and Rookie of the Year Award in 1967.