10:10 pm
June 5

Mets @ Padres

Who will WIN this matchup?

New York Mets (27-23)

@ San Diego Padres (36-23)

 

Starting Pitchers:

deGrom (NYM): 4-2; 0.71 ERA

Musgrove (SD) 4-4; 2.08 ERA

 

Current odds:

New York Mets: (+101)

San Diego Padres: (-111)

 

• The two-time National League Cy Young award winner will take a 4-2 record and 0.71 ERA into Saturday night’s pairing with Joe Musgrove (4-4, 2.08 ERA), who earlier this season threw the first no-hitter in Padres’ history. The Mets right-hander has allowed seven runs (four earned) on 22 hits with seven walks and 82 strikeouts in 51 innings this season. That breaks down to not just the 0.71 ERA — which is the lowest by a National League pitcher at the end of May since Philadelphia’s Chris Short had a 0.64 mark in 1964 — but an 0.569 WHIP, a .129 opponents batting average, an 11.7-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio and an average of 14.5 strikeouts per nine innings.

• In 11 games (10 starts), the San Diego native has allowed 16 runs (14 earned) on 34 hits with 12 walks and 79 strikeouts in 60 2/3 innings. He boasts an 0.758 WHIP, a .158 opponents batting average, a 6.9-to-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio and an average of 11.7 strikeouts per nine innings. Musgrove has allowed no runs on three hits with one walk and 20 strikeouts over his last three outings (16 2/3 innings).

• Said Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Merrill Kelly after seeing deGrom earlier this week: “What we’re watching is definitely something special. In my mind, he’s in a league of his own. The fact that he has the stuff that he has and can command it the way that he does, I think, is probably what sets him apart the most. You know, there’s a lot of guys in this league that throw 90-100, but he pitches with it, and it’s relentless on every single pitch.”

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