The National League takes center stage tonight as the New
York Mets return home to host one playoff game against the San Francisco
Giants. Win or go home and one team will do just that after tonight while the
other heads to Chicago and Wrigley Field to take on the Chicago Cubs. Ladies
and gentleman they call that a gift and a curse for the winner but no one is
thinking that far ahead tonight as they have to first take care of business
tonight inside Citi Field. In the game the New York Mets will send Noah Syndergaard to the
mound to square off with the Giants starter Madison Bumgarner in what should be one of the
better pitching matchups of the postseason. Let’s get to it.
Snydergaard will start the Wild Card Game for the Mets on
seven days of rest which could be a good thing or a bad thing for Terry Collins
tonight. The Mets were saving him for the final day of the season if they team
needed a victory to get into the postseason after the righty led the Mets
starters in ERA and strikeouts while making his case of the NL Cy Young Award.
Bumgarner heads into this start fresh off setting a
single-season Giants franchise record for strikeouts by a left-handed pitcher.
Bumgarner only faced the Mets once this season and he did so inside Citi Field
where the game will take place tonight. In that May 1st start
Bumgarner struck out seven while hurling six shutout innings in a win over New
York.
The game will be played at 8:05 pm ET inside Citi Field and
can be seen nationally on TBS. The playoffs really get kicked off after the AL
and NL Wild Card games are over and you know both teams didn’t work this hard
just to go home in one-game without a fight. What a game this should be and
truth be told I think I am more excited about this one than I was the American
League’s Wild Card Game.
Good luck to both teams and enjoy the game.
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