In a bit of a rough patch of play and missing two of their best bats in Ronald Acuna and Drake Baldwin, the Braves are hoping to be able to beat the Mets in game 2 of their series behind Martin Perez.<\/p>\n
It appears likely that Sean Manaea will get some bulk innings for the Mets, though he came in after an opener in his last appearance before eating 4.0 innings. Manaea has been pretty good in this non-starting bulk innings role, with an xERA, FIP, and xFIP right around 4.00. He\u2019s working with a pretty low-velocity arsenal at this point, but does have some pretty good extension. He\u2019s working with some very horizontally moving stuff, primarily pitching off of his four-seamer, sinker, and sweeper, with a cutter and changeup sprinkled in on occasion. His walk and strikeout rates have been quite average, with a below average ground ball rate. Manaea is pretty average but not bad and a rough equivalent in quality to what Martin Perez has been this season. The hope is that the Braves\u2019 offense can make something happen in the absence of a few of their stars.<\/p>\n
Martin Perez will look to continue his relative success this season, as he has a great 3.00 ERA but an xERA, xFIP, and FIP all around 4.00, much like Manaea, but as a totally acceptable number for the fifth starter. He\u2019s been getting it done with his changeup, using his sinker and cutter with a few four-seamers and curves mixed in. This feels like advantage Mets on paper, without Acuna or Baldwin and with roughly equivalent pitchers on the mound. Here\u2019s hoping that some combination of a good\/lucky Perez start and some real offense can make it happen.<\/p>\n
Game Date\/Time: Saturday, June 13, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
Location: Citi Field, Queens, NY<\/p>\n
Radio: 680 AM \/ 93.7 FM The Fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a bit of a rough patch of play and missing two of their best bats in Ronald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102885,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-265626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-atlanta-braves-game-information","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}