With the Mets having dropped eight of their last nine, they’ll turn to Max Scherzer for the opener against the Yankees on Tuesday and Justin Verlander on Wednesday.
Given their résumés, the Mets should be strutting into Citi Field this Subway Series, with Max Scherzer starting Tuesday’s opener and Justin Verlander going Wednesday.
Scherzer has a 3.71 ERA, but was roughed up for five runs on 11 hits in 5 ²/₃ innings in a loss in Atlanta in his previous start. As recently as June 2, the Mets were just 3 ½ games back of Atlanta, but that was before the Braves swept them at Truist Park and the Pirates took two of three from the Mets in Pittsburgh.
Verlander’s four-seam fastball and curveball are both getting clobbered, and after defying the odds by coming back from Tommy John surgery to win the American League Cy Young Award at the age of 39 with a 1.75 ERA, he’s looked like a 40-year-old so far this year. The Mets are already looking at a deep hole to pick themselves out of and have pointed to last year’s Phillies, as well as the 2019 Nationals, as examples of why it’s possible to overcome bad starts to make a run at the World Series.
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