Sunday, June 16, 2024 • 1:40 PM Citi Field • Flushing, NY RHP Dylan Cease (6-5, 3.36) vs. RHP Tylor Megill (1-3, 3.51) WPIX The New York Mets will look for the sweep this afternoon against the San Diego Padres after Saturday’s 5-1 win. The Mets have now won four consecutive games and have gone […]
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Sunday, June 16, 2024 • 1:40 PM
Citi Field • Flushing, NY
RHP Dylan Cease (6-5, 3.36) vs. RHP Tylor Megill (1-3, 3.51)
WPIX
The New York Mets will look for the sweep this afternoon against the San Diego Padres after Saturday’s 5-1 win. The Mets have now won four consecutive games and have gone 10-4 since calling a team meeting. The Padres enter play with a 0.5 game lead for the second wild card spot.
Thanks to the Mets winning and the Padres losing (among others), the wild card race has collapsed in the National League with the Mets only two games behind the third sport, and 2.5 games behind the spot the Padres hold. Overall, seven teams are within two games.
The Mets turn to Tylor Megill to try to complete the sweep against the Padres this afternoon. Over five starts, 25 2/3 innings, Megill has a 3.51 ERA, 2.68 FIP, 1.286 WHIP, and a 110 ERA+. He’s coming off of a shorter outing where he allowed three runs from five hits and two walks over 4 2/3 innings. He still recorded eight strikeouts, though.
He held the Padres to two runs over five innings last year, scattering three hits and three walks. The Padres have the following career numbers against him:
The Padres got Dylan Cease from the Chicago White Sox via trade right at the start of the season, and it was a major sign that the Padres were not throwing in the towel for the upcoming season. Over 14 starts (83 innings) this season, Cease has a 3.36 ERA, 3.02 FIP, 1.000 WHIP, and a 116 ERA+.
He’s coming off of a strong start against Oakland where he held the Athletics to only one run from eight hits in six innings of work. Before that start he had a stretch of five starts with a 5.86 ERA, 4.23 FIP where opponents hit .279/.314/.487 against him.
The Mets have the following career numbers against him:
Saturday night, for the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies, one of the Mets’ top positional prospects, outfielder Ryan Clifford, his sixth home run of June. Clifford’s Double-A OPS is quickly approaching the .900 plateau.
Happy Father’s Day! The Mets are 30-38 all-time on Father’s Day. All 30 major-league clubs will wear symbolic blue ribbons on their uniforms and specially designed light blue caps today to raise awareness for prostate cancer and raise funds for research to fight the disease.
The Mets are seeking their fifth sweep of the season. The Mets last sweep the Padres from August 8-10, 2006 at Shea Stadium.
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