The Mets will look to salvage the finale of their four-game series with the Cubs today at Wrigley Field at 2:20 PM ET.
Here is tonight’s starting lineup for New York:
2) Dilson Herrera – 2B
3) Lucas Duda – 1B
4) Michael Cuddyer – LF
5) John Mayberry Jr. – RF
6) Wilmer Flores – SS
7) Anthony Recker – C
8) Ruben Tejada – 3B
9) Jon Niese – LHP
Here is tonight’s pitching matchup:
Jon Niese (3-2, 1.95 ERA) will start for the Mets.
Key matchups vs. Niese:
Starlin Castro: 5-for-19, 3B, HR, 5 RBI, 6 K
Anthony Rizzo: 1-for-11, 2B, 2BB
Dexter Fowler: 2-for-11
Travis Wood (2-2, 4.96 ERA) will start for the Cubs.
Key matchups vs. Wood:
Curtis Granderson: 0-for-7, 2 BB, K
Lucas Duda: 2-for-11, HR, RBI, BB, 3 K
John Mayberry Jr: 2-for-7, 2B, RBI, 2 BB, K
Here’s what I’m looking for from the Mets:
Just score.
I’m certainly not reinventing the wheel with this premise: Just score. The Mets have leaned on their pitching all season and in order to continue contending and make a run to the postseason they’ll have to as their strength, but lately they’re relying too much on their pitching and it just hasn’t worked. As stellar as this staff has been for the most part, they cannot completely carry this team. At the end of the day, this Mets ball club must score runs. If they don’t, and they have not lately, they are in a whole mess of trouble. Cubs starter Travis Wood has struggled this year, and the Mets need to take advantage and put some damn runs on the board today.
Just Mets 
4 responses to “What to look for: Mets vs. Cubs, 2:20 PM”
Hope I’m wrong, but, do NOT at all like Granderson in CF today….
Actually, there’s a lot of things in this lineup I don’t like…
Where’s MURPHY?!🍀 I swear, Terry would have benched DiMaggio in his 56 game hitting streak, just because he ” needs a blow”…Terry costs us a game a week. It’s a prescription for 2015 disaster!
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With a healthy Lagares:
1) Dilson Herrera – 2B
2) Daniel Murphy – 3B
3) Michael Cuddyer – LF
4) Lucas Duda – 1B
5) Wilmer Flores – SS
6) Curtis Granderson – RF
7) Juan Lagares – CF
8) Plawecki/Recker – C
9) Pitcher
When Wright returns:
1) Dilson Herrera – 2B
2) Curtis Granderson – RF
3) David Wright – 3B
4) Lucas Duda – 1B
5) Michael Cuddyer – LF
6) Juan Lagares – CF
7) Wilmer Flores – SS
8) Plawecki/Recker – C
9) Pitcher
When d’Arnaud returns:
1) Dilson Herrera – 2B
2) Travis d’Arnaud – C
3) David Wright – 3B
4) Lucas Duda – 1B
5) Michael Cuddyer – LF
6) Curtis Granderson – RF
7) Juan Lagares – CF
8) Wilmer Flores – SS
9) Pitcher
Unless someone needs a day, there should be no other variation of the lineup. EVER.
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But still no Murph?🍀
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I just don’t think Murph fits in when Wright returns :-\
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