Monday, April 22, 2024 • 9:45 PM
Oracle Park • San Francisco, CA
LHP Jose Quintana (1-1, 3.05) vs. RHP Logan Webb (1-3, 4.09)
SNY
Tonight is the first time this season the Mets will face a team with a losing record. Every team the Mets have faced, except the Pirates, still has a winning record! (As of writing, the Pirates are at .500). The first team with a losing record the Mets will face, the San Francisco Giants, were projected to finish the season with a winning record, so it’s not like tonight will be a walk in Oracle Park.
Despite getting crushed by the Dodgers on Sunday, the Mets are coming off of a successful weekend, winning their fifth consecutive series in a row. Was Sunday a blip, or does it impact play tonight?
Luis Severino looks to right the ship this evening. Over four starts (21 innings), he has a 2.14 ERA, 3.73 FIP, 1.381 WHIP and an 189 ERA+. In his last two starts, he has allowed only two runs, one earned, from six hits and seven walks while striking out eight. This is a stark comparison to his first two outings, where he allowed 14 hits and eight runs. The Giants have the following career numbers against Severino:
Life doesn’t get much easier for the Mets’ bats tonight, going from Tyler Glasnow on Sunday to Logan Webb. Over five starts (30 2/3 innings), Webb has a 2.93 ERA, 2.88 FIP, 1.174 WHIP and a 138 ERA+. He’s been even better in his last two starts, where he allowed only one earned run over 14 innings while striking out nine in 14 innings of work. Webb is coming off a season where he had a 3.25 ERA over a league-leading 216 innings pitched.
Oddly enough, the last time that Logan Webb faced the Mets was April 22nd, 2023. He held the Mets to two runs from five hits over seven innings on his way to his first win of the season. The Mets have the following career numbers against Webb:
Let’s go Mets!
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