The Mets will look to even their three-game series against the Pirates this afternoon at PNC Park in Pittsburgh at 4:05 PM.
Here is today’s starting lineup for New York:
Curtis Granderson – RF
Juan Lagares – CF
Lucas Duda – 1B
Daniel Murphy – 2B
Wilmer Flores – SS
Eric Campbell – 3B
Darrell Ceciliani – LF
Kevin Plawecki – C
Matt Harvey – RHP
Here is today’s pitching matchup:
Matt Harvey (5-1, 1.98 ERA) will start for the Mets.
Lifetime vs. Pirates: 1 start, 0-0, 2.57 ERA
Key matchups vs. Harvey:
Pedro Alvarez: 1-for-3, 2B
Andrew McCutchen: 1-for-2, BB
Starling Marte: 0-for-3, BB, K
AJ Burnett (3-1, 1.38 ERA) will start for the Pirates.
Lifetime vs. Mets: 24 starts, 5-9, 4.18 ERA
Key matchups vs. Burnett:
Lucas Duda: 2-for-10, 2B, 2 RBI
Wilmer Flores: 5-for-6, RBI
Daniel Murphy: 6-for-18, 2 2B
Juan Lagares: 5-for-14 2 2B
Here’s what I am looking for from the Mets today:
It’s #HarveyDay.
Harvey is running a 16 inning scoreless streak into today’s start, and has been utterly brilliant during this run. He has a 1.23 over his last five starts, a span 36 2/3 innings. Here’s the problem: The Mets have scored 16 runs in each of those five starts, and Harvey is 2-1 during that span.
So, here’s a good plan for the Mets: score some runs for this kid today.
Clean it up on the field.
Enough of the physical and mental mistakes already. They’ve flat out killed this team over their first 43 games, last night being no exception. With the lack of offense, they have to play clean games behind their pitcher, especially since they’ve pitched so well over the first quarter of the season.
Just Mets 