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This Week in Mets: Where must the Mets improve to challenge the Phillies?
“Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.”
—“The Corrections,” Jonathan Franzen
The Mets’ biggest series of the season starts Monday when they host the Phillies. New York is seven out in the National League East, and any sliver of a shot at claiming the division depends on winning and likely sweeping this series.
(If you can bear it, the 2007 Phillies were six out the week before Labor Day, with seven games to go against the first-place Mets. They swept all seven to win the division by a game. As much as we think of that collapse as comprehensive, it’s basically broken into the seven losses to Philadelphia and the 1-6 record in the final week.)
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The top two teams in the National League East begin a key three-game series when the Philadelphia Phillies visit the New York Mets on Monday at Citi Field. With just 32 games remaining in the regular season, the Phillies (76-54) lead the division by seven games over the Mets (69-61). Philadelphia can put a hammerlock on the NL East title with a sweep, while New York can get back into the race with a sweep of its own. The two teams still play a four-game series in Philadelphia, Sept. 8-11.
Monday's pitching matchup features Phillies lefty Cristopher Sanchez (11-4, 2.46 ERA) against the Mets' Kodai Senga (7-5, 2.58). The 28-year-old Sánchez is in the midst of a breakout year. He already has matched his single-season career high in wins, and he is on pace to set a new career best in ERA, besting his 3.32 mark from last year. He also ranks fourth in all of baseball in fWAR among starting pitchers. With the season-ending injury to Zack Wheeler, Sanchez becomes Philadelphia's ace.
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Phillies at Mets prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for August 25
Its Monday, August 25 and the Phillies (76-54) are in Queens to take on the Mets (69-61).
Cristopher Sánchez is slated to take the mound for Philadelphia against Kodai Senga for New York.
The Phillies own a commanding seven game lead over the Mets in the National League East making this probably a must-sweep series for New York if they are still fostering any hopes for a division title. Philadelphia won two of three at Citizen’s Bank Park against the Nationals over the weekend while New York took two of three from the Braves in Atlanta.
Lets dive into the matchup and find a sweat or two.
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