Tuesday, April 19, 2022 • 3:10 P.M.
Citi Field • Flushing, NY
GAME ONE: RHP Alex Cobb (1-0, 3.60) vs. RHP Tylor Megill (2-0, 0.00) GAME TWO: RHP Logan Webb (1-0, 1.29) vs. RHP Max Scherzer (2-0, 3.27)
The Giants are 7-2!
The Mets are set to play their first doubleheader of the season today…Last year, the Mets played 14 doubleheaders…According to Elias, the last time a team played 14 or more doubleheaders in a season was in 1979, when the Mets played 19 doubleheaders and the Expos played 15…The Mets went 11-3 in the first game of a doubleheader and 6-8 in the second game…This will mark the first doubleheader between these two teams since April 23 2012…The Mets lost both games.
STARTING OFF: The Mets starting staff has gone 6-0 with a 1.07 ERA (six earned runs/50.1 innings) with 11 walks and 59 strikeouts…That is the best 10-game start since the advent of the earned run in 1913, per Sportradar…New York’s starter has allowed one or no runs in eight straight games…According to Elias, that is tied for the longest streak in team history (also, May 20-28, 2010)…The starting staff leads the majors in ERA, opponent’s batting average (.158) and isthird with 59 strikeouts…Their 50.1 innings rank sixth.
THRIVE AT 5.0: Tylor Megill has thrown at least 5.0 innings, allowed no runs and yielded three hits or fewer in each of his last three starts since October 1, 2021… Only three pitchers have ever put up a comparable line in four consecutive starts: Joe Musgrove (September 20, 2020-April 9, 2021), Michael Fulmer (May 27-June 12, 2016) and Jake Arrieta (September 22, 2015-April 4, 2016).
LET’S GO STREAKING: Megill has won three straight starts, marking the first time he has won consecutive outings in his career…His scoreless streak currently sits at 16.1 innings going back to his September 24, 2021 start at Milwaukee…It is the second-longest scoreless streak of his career, behind 17.2 scoreless innings from July 10-28, 2021…This is the second time Megill has produced at least two straight scoreless starts (also, 6.0 IP on both July 17 at Pittsburgh and July 23 vs. Toronto last season).
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE: Max Scherzer has won 13 consecutive decisions, tied for the longest winning streak of his career (he also won his first 13 decisions of his 2013 Cy Young Award-winning season with Detroit)…His teams have won each of his last 16 regular season starts…He is unbeaten in his last 21 starts (more on this below), going 13-0 since June 4, 2021 with a 2.60 ERA (35 earned runs/121.0 innings) to go along with 154 strikeouts and just 26 walks in that span.
WIN, WIN, WIN: Scherzer has not suffered a loss in any of his last 21 starts…That is tied for the 16th-longest streak of starts without a loss in modern MLB history… Tonight, he aims to tie his opposing starter, Logan Webb, who is currently on a 22-start streak without taking a loss…Roger Clemens (30 straight) holds the all- time mark…The last pitcher before Scherzer and Webb to have a streak this long was Walker Buehler, whose 23-start unbeaten streak lasted from 2019-2021.
