Julio Urias completely cruised by six innings final evening, permitting simply three baserunners with seven strikeouts. The offense put up six runs, three towards Justin Verlander, and simply secured their first win of the second half. Tonight options Tony Gonsolin up towards the right-handed Kodai Senga. Senga has been one of the best beginning pitcher for the Mets this 12 months, which partly explains the Mets’ struggles. Max Scherzer and Verlander haven’t been adequate, however they’ll look to get again on observe behind the *rookie*.

	4:15 PM		Queens
2B	Betts	CF	Nimmo (L)
1B	Freeman (L)	SS	Lindor (S)
C	Smith	LF	McNeil (L)
3B	Muncy (L)	1B	Alonso
DH	Martinez	DH	Vogelbach (L)
LF	Peralta (L)	C	Alvarez
RF	Heyward (L)	RF	Stewart (L)
CF	Outman (L)	3B	Baty (L)
SS	Rojas	2B	Guillorme (L)
P	Gonsolin (R)	P	Senga (R)

For what seems like the primary time in my lifetime, the Dodgers will ship out the very same lineup in again to again video games. It is sensible to do, as this lineup might be probably the most potent the workforce can provide in the mean time.

The workforce has 4 gamers within the prime 15 in OPS in all of baseball, with Mookie Betts (.962), Freddie Freeman (.955), J.D. Martinez (.880), and Will Smith (.872). Max Muncy will hit cleanup earlier than Martinez only for lineup building functions, however regardless of the .195 common, he nonetheless owns a 118 wRC+ and .802 OPS. That additionally jumps as much as a 131 wRC+ towards right-handed pitching. After that it’s David Peralta who owns an .885 OPS and 141 wRC+ for the reason that starting of Could. Jason Heyward follows him with an .802 OPS on the 12 months and an .863 OPS since mid Could. After Heyward, James Outman will get the beginning in heart subject, and has quietly had an ideal July to date, with a .333/.419/.593 slash, and 177 wRC+. That’s additionally with “simply” a 25.8% strikeout price, which might be his lowest strikeout price in any month this 12 months.

Gonsolin doesn’t actually characteristic any true platoon splits, however nonetheless the Mets will stack left-handed batters towards him. One of many prime catching prospects in all of baseball, the ability hitting Francisco Alvarez, has been heating up and has reverse splits, with a 155 wRC+ and .939 OPS towards right-handed pitching. After him, all of Brandon Nimmo (129 wRC+), Pete Alonso (123), Francisco Lindor (117), and Daniel Vogelbach (111) are above common towards right-handed pitching.

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Right here’s how the 2 starters match up.

Gonsolin improved to 5-3 in his final outing with a victory over the Angels. He allowed 4 runs on seven hits and one stroll over 6.2 innings with 5 strikeouts. He’s now allowed precisely 4 runs for his third straight begin, however this was one of the best outing of the bunch as he went a season-high 6.2 frames on an environment friendly 77 pitches. He’s allowed a complete of 19 earned runs over his final 21 innings pitched. In the event that they’re extra like his final outing nevertheless, and he can go seven innings, that dramatically helps the workforce and their bullpen. If it’s just like the prior begin nevertheless, the place he allowed 4 runs over 3.2 innings, that received’t lower it. He sat 92.8 MPH in his final outing together with his fastball, which is an honest spot for him and barely above his season common of 92.3. It’s nonetheless down from 93.1 final 12 months, 93.8 the 12 months prior, and 95.1 in 2020, however so long as he stays efficient it doesn’t actually matter all that a lot. Sadly the same old efficiency hasn’t been there this season, however a 3.86 ERA is unquestionably acceptable.

Senga allowed one run on 4 hits and a stroll whereas hanging out twelve over eight innings to earn the win in his final outing towards the Diamondbacks (Thanks).

Senga practically acquired a no choice for that efficiency, however the Mets pulled forward within the prime of the ninth inning. It’s the second time he’s recorded double-digit strikeouts this season, and the seventh time he’s restricted an opponent to 1 run or much less. He owns a really stable 3.31 ERA, with 113 strikeouts to 47 walks by 89.2 innings on the 12 months. He’s proven six separate pitches this 12 months, however primarily depends on simply three. He throws a four-seam fastball roughly 40% of the time that sits within the mid to excessive 90’s, mixing in a cutter that sits round 90 MPH, and a forkball that sits within the low 80’s. He throws each of these roughly 1 / 4 of the time, including a mid 80’s sweeper round 9% of the time. 

He’s actually troublesome to hit, will get strikeouts, however could be very prone to strolling batters. He owns a 2.59 ERA going again to Could 30, over his final seven begins, so he’s been in a very good run of type and the Dodgers’ bats might want to present up.

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In different information,

Noah Syndergaard returning might be helpful, however repeating his 7.16 ERA won’t work.

Not a ton happening in addition to that. The Arizona Diamondbacks misplaced earlier at this time, so the Dodgers may go up two video games within the division with a win at this time.

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First pitch is at 4:15 PM PT on Fox.