Monday, February 26, 2024 • 1:10 PM
CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches • West Palm Beach, FL
RHP Max Kranick (0-0, -.–) vs. RHP Josiah Gray (0-0, -.–)
The Mets look to make it two wins in a row this afternoon as they take on the Nationals for the Mets’ first road game of the season. The big story from yesterday’s game was Francisco Álvarez hitting his first home run of the spring. So far it’s been the Mets catchers this spring showing off the power with the other Mets homer coming from Hayden Senger in the first game of the season.
José Butto had a solid outing, scattering three hits over two innings. On Saturday Tylor Megill had a rough first inning, but a much calmer second inning and allowed only one run over two innings. Buttó and Megill are both competing with Joey Lucchesi for the Mets’ final spot in the rotation. There is one additional pitcher competing for that spot – today’s starter Max Kranick. The Mets claimed Kranick from the Pirates in mid-January. Max Kranick had Tommy John surgery in 2022, which caused him to miss most of that season and almost all of 2023.
Photo by Ed Delaney, MMO
Additional pitchers for the blue and orange today are: RHP Cam Robinson, RHP Eric Orze and RHP Sean Reid-Foley. The Mets announced that Adrian Houser will pitch on Tuesday against A.J. Puk and the Marlins, marking his first start in a Mets uniform.
In addition, the Mets added the following minor leaguers on their travel roster for today: INF Wyatt Young, INF Mateo Gil, INF Luke Ritter, OF Stanley Consuegra, OF Omar De Los Santos, OF Brandon McIlwain, OF Joe Suozzi, RHP Trey McLoughlin, RHP Dedniel Núñez, RHP Ben Simon, RHP Tyler Stuart and RHP Joander Suarez.
Let’s go Mets!
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