{"id":314180,"date":"2026-08-05T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314180\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:18:09","slug":"new-york-mets-and-cleveland-guardians-play-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314180\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets and Cleveland Guardians play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Mets<\/a> (48-66, fifth in the NL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians<\/a> (57-57, second in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Cleveland; Wednesday, 6:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Christian Scott (3-3, 2.99 ERA, 1.24 WHIP, 85 strikeouts); Guardians: Tanner Bibee (4-11, 3.81 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 100 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -115, Guardians -104; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets lead 1-0 in a three-game series with the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has a 57-57 record overall and a 28-29 record in home games. The Guardians are 24-14 in games when they did not allow a home run.<\/p>\n

New York has a 23-32 record in road games and a 48-66 record overall. The Mets have a 24-45 record in games when they have allowed a home run.<\/p>\n

The teams square off Wednesday for the second time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jose Ramirez<\/a> has 18 doubles, 10 home runs and 35 RBIs while hitting .233 for the Guardians. Steven Kwan<\/a> is 14 for 38 with two doubles over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Marcus Semien<\/a> has eight doubles, a triple and 12 home runs for the Mets. Francisco Lindor<\/a> is 10 for 39 with a double, a triple and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Guardians: 3-7, .213 batting average, 4.19 ERA, outscored by 14 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 5-5, .224 batting average, 2.60 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Guardians: Shawn Armstrong: 60-Day IL (leg)<\/p>\n

Mets: Austin Warren<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Cionel Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Mets (48-66, fifth in the NL East) vs. Cleveland Guardians (57-57, second in the AL Central)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[81549,96182,448,54398,30159,98425,20390,59747,996,27921,9,11,320,10,98431],"class_list":["post-314180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-austin-warren","tag-cionel-perez","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-event_preview","tag-francisco-lindor","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcus-semien","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-steven-kwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314180","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=314180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}