The Mets are coming off of a rough two weekend losses to the Marlins and certainly were in need of their off day on Monday. The Mets played 30 innings this weekend, back to back extra inning games, and dropped both to a last place team.
The Mets are sitting 13 games out of first place in the National League East and will have six home games this week to try to make up some ground. First they will host the team with the most wins in baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets previously lost three out of four to the Cardinals about a month ago. The big game to watch this week is on Thursday as Matt Harvey will take his undefeated record against Cardinals’ ace Adam Wainwright.
For the weekend series the Mets will welcome in the Chicago Cubs, a team that sits in last place in the NL Central and who the Mets took two out of three from in May. This is a series the Mets will certainly be hoping to sweep if they want to hang around in a playoff race. Here are the pitching matchups for this week’s games.
Tuesday vs. Cardinals 7 pm: Jeremy Hefner (1-5 4.36 ERA) vs. Michael Wacha (0-0 5.40 ERA)
Wednesday 7 pm: Dillon Gee (4-6 5.20 ERA) vs. Shelby Miller (7-3 1.91 ERA)
Thursday 1 pm: Matt Harvey (5-0 2.10 ERA) vs. Adam Wainwright (9-2 2.34 ERA)
Friday vs Cubs 7 pm: Shaun Marcum (0-7 4.96 ERA) vs. Edwin Jackson (2-8 5.76 ERA)
Saturday 1 pm: Jonathon Niese (3-5 4.24 ERA) vs. Scott Feldman (5-5 3.22 ERA)
Sunday 1 pm: Jeremy Hefner vs. Matt Garza (1-0 4.03 ERA)
By Sam Jackson