Sunday Night Subway Series Showdown: Which New York Titan Will Claim Ultimate Glory?

With the WNBA starting and the Preakness running yesterday, we didn’t have any MLB plays to sweat out. That’s fine, there are still over 100 days remaining in the season, so we will have plenty of time to sweat games together. I am shifting the focus back to the MLB today, though. We have Sunday Night Baseball and some of the subways series are happening, so we should get a nice game this evening as the Mets take on the Yankees.

The Mets are rolling this season, coming into this game 12 games over .500. While they aren’t bad on the road, they also aren’t good. In fact they are the definition of average, having won 12 games and lost 12 games entering tonight. The comfort of playing in a home stadium is pretty common for a lot of teams, and I’ve covered how badly road teams are doing this season, but this is something the Mets will need to figure out over the season if they want to coast to a division crown. Tonight, they put David Peterson on the hill for them, hoping he can help them grab a road victory. Peterson is 2-2 with a 3.05 ERA and a 1.35 WHIP for the season. The ERA isn’t really bad, but the WHIP does concern me. Peterson isn’t an ace, or even expected to be one, so perhaps he is in line with where he should be. I’m just thinking if the WHIP stays there, the ERA is probably going to increase not decrease. As of now he has allowed two or fewer runs in seven of eight starts, and has posted a quality outing in half of his starts. Yankees hitters are also only batting .143 against him. 

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