NEW YORK METS NOTES:

METSCELLANEOUS: The Mets defeated the Giants, 7-0, last night…New York captured their second shutout of the season…The Mets finish their second road trip of the season an 11-day, 10-game trip (7-1) against the Athletics (3-0), Dodgers (2-1) and Giants (2-0)…The Mets are off on Monday before they return home for a six-game homestand against the Nationals (three games) and Braves (three games).

WINNING: New York has won three consecutive games and eight of their last nine contests…The Mets are a season-high seven games above .500…The Mets have secured a winning road trip (7-1)…With a victory today, the Mets would claim their fifth straight series and their seventh series overall…New York’s 14 wins are tied for the second-most in the majors and tied with the Braves and Pirates for the most in the National League.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN: The Mets are batting .271/.372/.451 with 53 runs, 15 doubles, 12 home runs, 50 RBI, 39 walks, seven steals and an .822 OPS in the first eight games of the road trip…The team has posted a 3.63 ERA (29 ER/72.0 IP) with 32 walks and 67 strikeouts in that span…The Mets are outscoring their opponents 53-29 in this stretch…Overall, the Mets are 10-5 on the road this season…Their 10 road wins are tied with the Braves for the most in the majors…The team’s .667 road winning percentage is tied for fifth in the majors.

CALIFORNIA DREAMING: The Mets are 7-1 with two games remaining on their West Coast California trip…The most wins the Mets have ever had on one road trip facing teams in California is eight…New York went 8-1 from August 18-27, 1986 vs. Los Angeles-NL, San Francisco and San Diego…Research courtesy of Elias.

1010 WINS: The Mets have recorded 10 or more hits in a season-high three straight games…The team has raised its batting average from .222 to .240 in that span…The last time the team recorded 10 or more hits in four straight games was from September 13-17, 2020.

APRIL, SHE WILL COME: Pete Alonso has become the first player in Mets history with 10 home runs before May 1…The last time a player hit 10+ home runs in his team’s first 21 games of a season was in 2019, when Christian Yelich (11), Cody Bellinger, Khris Davis and Eddie Rosario all
accomplished the feat.

Player HR Year Month
Gary Carter 13 1985 Sept/Oct
Dave Kingman 13 1975 July
Mike Piazza 11 1999 August
Tommie Agee 11 1970 June
Player HR Year Month
Lee Mazzilli 11 1980 July
Howard Johnson 11 1989 June
Pete Alonso 11 2019 Sept/Oct
16 Players 10
MOST HOME RUNS BY A MET IN A MONTH

APRIL SHOWERS: Alonso has 22 RBI this month (he had one RBI in March)…The franchise record for RBI in the month of April is 26 by Jeff Kent in 1994.

FOUR TOPS: Alonso became the fourth player in franchise history to have consecutive games with four or more RBI and the first since Lucas Duda, September 25-26, 2015…The others to accomplish the feat are Carlos Beltrán (three times) and Robin Ventura (twice)…No Mets player has ever driven four or more runs in three straight games…The last major leaguer to have four or more RBI in three consecutive games was Baltimore’s Chris Davis from April 3-5, 2013.

Rank Player HR GAMES
3rd Mike Piazza 220 972
4th Howard Johnson 192 1,154
5th Pete Alonso 156 551
6th Dave Kingman 154 664
7th Carlos Beltrán 149 839

Rank Player RBI GAMES
10th Keith Hernandez 468 880
11th Kevin McReynolds 456 787
12th Pete Alonso 403 551
13th Daniel Murphy 402 903
14th Rusty Staub 399 942
METS ALL-TIME LEADERS

CAN’T STOP: Pete Alonso leads the majors with 10 home runs and tied for the MLB lead with 23 RBI…He is tied for second in the majors with 18 runs scored…He is fourth in the majors and third in the NL with a .671 SLG and is fifth in the majors and fourth in the NL with a 1.047 OPS…Alonso has nine homers in his last 15 games…He’s hitting .350/.418/.800 over that period with 21 RBI and 14 runs.

RED HOT: The Mets have homered in eight of their last nine games…The team has hit 14 home runs in that span…The Mets hit a total of 10 home runs in the previous 12 games.

WAR, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?: Brandon Nimmo leads the major leagues with a 1.6 fWAR…Pete Alonso is seventh in The Show and fifth in the NL with a 1.1 fWAR, while Francisco Lindor is ninth in the majors and seventh in the Senior Circuit with a 1.1 fWAR.

ROAD TRIPPIN’: Over the eight game road trip, Brandon Nimmo is batting .514 (18-35) with seven runs, four doubles, a home run, six RBI, three walks with a .564 OBP and a .714 SLG…He is batting .373 (19-51) in his last 13 games vs. the Giants…Nimmo is hitting .411 (23-56) on the road…Has a .325 (118-363) road average since the start of last year, fourth-highest in the majors…The Wyoming native ranks second in the majors with a .489 OBP, third in batting average (.375) and is tied for fifth in the majors with 15 walks this season.

THE FRANCISCO LINDOR WAY: Francisco Lindor has reached base safely in 14 of his last 15 games…He is batting .267 (16-60) with 16 runs, seven doubles, four home runs, 16 RBI, six walks, two steals with a .362 OBP, a .683 SLG and a .946 OPS in that span…This comes after Lindor batted .111 (2-18) in his first six games…Lindor is tied for third in the NL with 12 extra-base hits.

GOING BACK TO CALI: Over the last six games, Jeff McNeil has batted .476 (10-21) with five runs, two doubles, a home run, three RBI, three walks, a .577 OBP and a .714 SLG…McNeil has raised his season batting average from .212 to .288 during this span.

THIS IS THE PLACE: Eduardo Escobar has an extra-base hit in seven consecutive games against the Giants…Only six players have ever had a longer streak against the club…Overall, Escobar has hit safely in 10 straight games against San Francisco, going 18-40 (.450) with a 1.275 OPS.

WALK, DON’T STRIKE: The Mets are second in the majors with 98 walks this season…As a team, New York has struck out only 148 times this season, the third-fewest time in the Majors…Brandon Nimmo has drawn 15 walks and struck out just nine times this season…Jeff McNeil has 13 walks and has also struck out only seven times…There are 25 players with at least a dozen walks in 2023 and Cleveland’s Steven Kwan is the only other with fewer than 10 strikeouts.

D-FENCE: The Mets have committed just four errors in 21 games this season, the fewest in the majors…The team’s .995 fielding percentage is the best in the majors…Francisco Lindor has recorded six DRS (defensive runs saved) according to the Fielding Bible…That is tied for the most in the majors.

BROTHERS IN ARMS: Together, Adam Ottavino and David Robertson have combined to post a 1.58 ERA (3 ER/17.1 IP) with five walks and 19 strikeouts…They have converted seven of eight save opportunities… They are one of three pairs of teammates who have each recorded multiple saves this season (also, Devin Williams and Bryse Wilson of the Brewers, Carlos Estévez and José Quijada of the Angels).

DAVID PETERSON LHP #23
2023 STATS: 1-2, 6.10 E R A

PETERSON’S PITCH ARSENAL
Pitch Type Usage Rate vs. LHB vs. RHB Avg. Velocity
Four-Seam Fastball 28% 24% 30% 93.1 mph
Slider 25% 36% 21% 85.7 mph
Changeup 23% 5% 31% 86.1 mph
Sinker 18% 28% 13% 92.5 mph
Curveball 6% 7% 6% 78.7 mph

PETERSON NEWS & NOTES
LAST TIME OUT: Went 6.0 innings to earn his first win of the season on April 17 against the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium..Let up six runs on seven hits and six strikeouts…Did not walk a batter in a start for the first time since August 27, 2022 vs. Colorado.

GIANT SLAYER: Peterson earned the win in his only career start against the Giants on May 23, 2022 at Oracle Park…He pitched 6.0 innings, allowed two runs and three hits, walked one and struck out six.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Peterson has a 4.12 ERA (31 ER/67.2 IP) in his last 16 road outings since the 2022 season, including 12 starts…He is 6-10 with a 4.89 ERA (73 earned runs/134.1 innings) in his career on the road…Peterson has struck five or more batters in his last 11 starts on the road, holding the franchise record for a left-handed pitcher.

LETHAL LEFTY: Peterson has limited lefties to a .208 (22-106) average since 2022…He whiffed 32 of the 96 left-handed batters he faced last year, a 33 percent strikeout rate that ranked fourth among all left-handed pitchers to face a minimum of 90 LHB in 2022.

SLIP ‘N’ SLIDE: Peterson held batters to a .175 (24-137) average with his slider last season and 78 of his 126 strikeouts came on the pitch…His 52.0 slider-strikeout percentage was the second-highest in MLB (min. 150 PA) behind only teammate Edwin Díaz (54.7) and his 47.9 whiff percentage with the pitch was the third-highest in the majors behind only Díaz (54.7) and Seattle’s Andres Muñoz (50.8).

FOUR-HIT WONDER: The southpaw allowed four hits or fewer in 12 of his 19 starts
and 21 of his 28 appearances overall last season…He has held the opposition to
four hits or fewer in 39 of his 54 career games.

STRIKE ‘EM OUT, STRIKE ‘EM OUT: Peterson struck out at least five batters in 11 straight starts from June 20-September 9 last season, the second-longest streak by a left-handed starter last season…It was the sixth-longest streak by a Mets left-handed starter in franchise history…Peterson had 82 strikeouts across 58.2 innings during that span (13 G/11 GS) good for a 12.58 K/9 ratio.

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: Peterson made four appearances (three starts) during spring training…He threw 12.0 scoreless innings and allowed just one hit over those four outings…Struck out 13 and walked eight…Peterson last pitched in a minor league game on March 25…In his last Grapefruit League appearance of the spring, allowed one hit, struck out four and walked four over 4.0 scoreless frames vs. the Cardinals on March 19.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS NOTES:

TODAY’S GAME: The Giants look to break their two-game skid with a win this afternoon…the matchup is the third of an eight-game homestand, the longest for SF this season…after the Mets leave town on Sunday, the Giants will take on the St. Louis Cardinals from Monday-Thursday.

FIRST TIME SINCE WHEN?: The Giants’ 6-13 record is tied for their worst start through 19 games in franchise history, with the last time being in 2017…the 1951 New York Giants started 6-13 and finished 98-59 after going 50-12 to end the season en route to taking the NL Pennant…a loss today would keep the Giants on pace with the 1972, 1980 and 1983 SF Giants.

HOMECOMING: Today marks the first home start for RHP Logan Webb since he signed a five-year, $90 million extension with SF on April 14 while the team was in Detroit…Webb fell in his last start on April 17 at Miami when a late pinch-hit home run by Jorge Soler gave the Marlins a 7th-inning 4-3 lead…Webb has been a workhorse for the Giants, totaling the second-most innings in the Majors since July 9, 2021 (trailing only Cy Young RHP Sandy Alcántara’s 342.1).

Most innings in MLB since July 9, 2021
Player Innings
Sandy Alcántara (MIA) 342.1
Logan Webb (SF) 315.1
Aaron Nola (PHI) 312.2
Player Innings
Framber Valdez 310.2
Gerrit Cole (NYY) 305.1
Corbin Burnes (MIL) 304.0

ANOTHER ONE?: The Giants face LHP David Peterson this afternoon, the eighth lefty they’ve faced in their last 12 games…lefties have been a tough draw for the Giants as their platooned lineup is batting .205, which ranks 25th in MLB, and has a .574 OPS, which is 29th…righties have a strong .306 batting average (19-for-62), two homers and .816 OPS vs. Peterson, but lefties have actually fared better with a .333 average (7-for-21), three home runs and 1.250 OPS.

SLIDE TO THE LEFT: Speaking of Peterson, the key to the game is his slider…Per Sports Info Solutions, opponents hit .175 against his slider last year, and are 11-for-27 (.407) this year…the Giants are near the top of the league in hitting right-handed sliders, with a .276 average (third in Majors) and an MLB-leading .586 slugging percentage…yet like they have against most lefty pitching, the Giants have struggled
against southpaw sliders with a .172 average (22nd) and .372 slugging percentage (16th).

HOT CORNER: Per SIS, the .983 OPS by SF third basemen is the second best in MLB, trailing only the Blue Jays…IF David Villar is 6-for-21 .(286) with three home runs, seven RBI and a 1.114 OPS as a third baseman compared to his 4-for-31 (.129) output at a second baseman…IF J.D. Davis is 15-for-49 (.306) with four home runs, 13 RBI and a .932 OPS on the hot corner…IF Wilmer Flores is 1-for-4 (.250) with a run, a walk,
a double and an RBI.

REHAB UPDATE: Two of the Giants best right-handed bats, OF Mitch Haniger and OF Austin Slater, are close to returning to the lineup…Haniger was 0-for-2 with an RBI last night…he is 3-for-9 with a home run and two RBI for Sacramento…in 2021, Haniger’s last healthy season (157 games), he tied for fourth in MLB with 16 big flies vs. lefties…Slater had Friday off, but is 5-for-15 (.333) with five runs, a double, a home run, six RBI and a 1.044 OPS in six games for Sacramento (one in center field, five at designated hitter)…since 2020, Slater’s OPS vs lefties is eighth-best in the NL.

DAY MAN, FIGHTER OF THE NIGHT MAN: The Giants have performed much better in day games this season, going 5-6 compared to their 1-7 night record…Giants pitchers have a 3.82 ERA in day games compared to their 5.53 ERA in night games…offensively, SF has a .775 OPS in day games (seventh in MLB) against their .657 OPS in night games (27th).

WATCHING IT FLY: Giants pitching staff has allowed 27 home runs in 19 games…the 27 homers are tied for third-most in the NL…last season, it took Giants pitchers 38 games to give up that many home runs.

NO DICE: The Giants were held scoreless for the third time this season, and third time by a New York team as the Yankees shut out the Giants twice in the opening three game series…it took until June 2 for the Giants to be shut out for a third time in 2022…seven other teams have been shutout at least thrice this year, with Washington, San Diego and Oakland all doing so four times, and Kansas City five times.

LATE RUNS: SF has allowed 44 runs in the 7th-or-later, which ranks as the third-most runs allowed in the Majors behind the Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox (both with 46).

UNLUCKY 7: Early runs have been key as SF is 1-11 when trailing after the 6th…conversely, when leading after the 7th, the Giants have a 4-2 record, and when tied they are 1-0. Runs allowed in the 7th inning or later – MLB

Team Runs in 7th Inning or Greater
Athletics 46
White Sox 46
Giants 44

Team Runs in 7th Inning or Greater
Royals 36
Astros 35
Two tied with 34

THAT HURTS: SF is third in MLB, second in the NL, with 14 errors…the Giants had a -9 DRS, which is 26th in baseball… SF catchers have an MLB-leading five errors, three being catcher’s interferences by C/OF Blake Sabol.

TODAY’S STARTER – LOGAN WEBB RHP #62
2023 RECORD: 0-4, 4.94 ERA

WITH THE GIANTS: Is in the midst of his fifth season with SF…made his fourth career Opening Day roster and his second consecutive Opening Day start with his outing on March 30 at the Yankees… signed a five-year, $90 million extension on April 14 that keeps him in a Giants uniform through 2028…the contract bought out his final two arbitration years and first three years of free agency.

LAST TIME OUT: Was in the midst of a solid start last time out in Miami on Monday, having allowed two runs through six innings with SF leading 3-2…in the 7th inning, Webb gave up a pair of singles to start the inning but got a huge double play to get the first two outs of the inning and was seemingly going to wiggle out of the jam… pinch hitter Jorge Soler, who was previously 0-for-10 off Webb with seven strikeouts, homered on a mistake pitch from Webb that gave Miami a lead they wouldn’t give back.

VS. NEW YORK-NL: Faces off against the Mets for the fourth time in his career and third time here at Oracle Park…he’s fared much better against the Metropolitans here at home (4er, 12.1ip) in two starts than he did in his lone start at Citi Field last April…SF has won both of his starts against the Mets at Oracle Park in his career with the most recent coming last May (5.0ip, 5h, 2r, 2er).

LOGAN’S WEBB: Over the last 2+ seasons as Webb has come into his own, the Giants as a team are 39-23 (.629) in games that he has started since 2021…however, SF has lost each of Webb’s starts this season and 8-of-his-last-12 dating to August 18, 2022.

THE AIR UP THERE…: Webb has allowed multiple homers in two of his four outings this season after doing so just one time all of 2022… last season, Webb’s 0.51 HR/9ip was the fourth-lowest in the Majors behind José Quintana (0.43), Framber Valdez (0.49) and Martín Pérez 0.50)…Webb allowed 11 homers in 192.1 innings in 2022 and has allowed four in 17.0 so far in 2023.

THAT’S STRIKEOUTS WITH A K: The righty has whiffed 28 batters in 23.2 innings so far in 2023 (10.65 K/9ip)…for reference, Webb’s highest K/9 of his career came in his breakout 2021 season where he averaged 9.6 strikeouts per 9.0 innings.

CHANGELING…: Through his first four starts opponents are hitting .344 with a .563 slugging % off his changeup in 2023… last season, they batted .204 with a .286 slugging %…during his breakout 2021 season, opponents had a .263 average with a .365 slugging % off the changeup.

GOOD VIBES ONLY: Webb’s 12 punchouts set the franchise record for most strikeouts on Opening Day, surpassing the 11-strikeout effort from Madison Bumgarner on April 2, 2017 at Arizona…the 12 strikeouts on Opening Day were also tied for 10th-most by any pitcher in MLB history on Opening Day… it was Webb’s fourth career 10+ strikeout game.