New York Mets vs. Kansas City Royals

 Mets (90-72 regular season)

Postseason:

Beat the Dodgers in five in NLDS in best of five series and beat the Cubs in four straight in NLCS in best four out of seven.

Royals (95-67)

Postseason:

Beat the Astros in five in ALDS in best three of five and beat the Blue Jays in the ALCS best four of seven.

Schedule

Tonight 

Mets @ Royals (Kaufman Stadium, 37,903)

7:07 PM CT/8:07 PM ET

FOX

Joe Buck, Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci, Ken Rosenthal, EA

Mets: Matt Harvey (13-8, 2.71, 37 walks, 188 K’s, 18 homers given up, 1.02 WHIP–walks hits per innings pitched– good stat; postseason: 2-0, 2.84 ERA)

Royals: Edinson Volquez (13-9, 3.55, 72 walks, 155 K’s, 16 homers, 1.31 WHIP;  postseason: 1-2, 4.32 ERA

Game 2

Wednesday

Mets @ Royals

7:07 PM CT/8:07 PM ET

FOX

Mets: Jacob deGrom (14-8, 2.54 ERA, 38 walks, 205 K’s, 16 homers, o.98 WHIP, postseason: 3-0, 1.80)

Royals: Johnny Cueto (11-13, 3.44, 46 walks, 176 K’s, 21 homers, 1.13 WHIP; postseason: 1-1, 7.88)

Game 3

Friday, Oct. 30th

Royals @ Mets

Citi Field, New Yawk, The City that never sleeps (45,000)

7:07 PM CT/8:07 PM ET

FOX

Royals: Yordano Ventura (13-8, 4.08, 58 walks, 156 K’s, 14 Hrs, 1.30 WHIP, postseason: 0-1, 5.09)

Mets: Noah Syndergaard (9-7, 3.24, 31 walks, 166 K’s, 19 homers, 1.05 WHIP, postseason: 1-1, 2.77)

 

Game 4

Saturday, Oct. 31st

Royals @ Mets

7:07 PM CT/8:07 PM ET

FOX

Royals: Chris Young (11-6, 3.06 ERA, 43 walks, 83 K’s, 16 homers, 1.09 WHIP; postseason: 0-0, 3.12 in one start).

Mets: Steven Matz (4-0, 2.27, 10 walks 34 K’s in six games started came back from injury later in the season. 34 homers, 1.23 WHIP; postseason: 0-1, 3.72)

 

Game 5

Royals @ Mets

Sunday, Nov. 1st

7:15 PM CT/8:15 PM ET

FOX

Volquez @ Harvey

 

Game 6

Mets @Royals

Tuesday, Nov. 3rd

7:07 PM CT/8:07 PM ET

FOX

deGrom @Cueto

 

Game 7

Mets @ Royals

7:07 PM CT/8:07 PM ET

FOX

Syndergaard @Ventura

 

Analysis and Prediction

This Royals team struck out the least of any team in baseball and hit the 95 MPH or better fastball at a .284 clip which is very good. Their bullpen is awesome with Ryan Madison, Kelvin Herrera and the awesome Wade Davis. They’re almost unbeatable if they have a lead going into the seventh inning. But I love the Mets’ young cannon-like arms, particularly Harvey, who’s 26,, and the awesome deGrom, who’s 27. Those two along with Syndergaard and Matz will bring the heat.

And second baseman Daniel Murphy has six consecutive  home runs in the postseason and seven overall. I expect left fielder Yoenis Cespedes to have a big series along with Murphy. And veteran third baseman David Wright, who has come back from almost a career ending back injury, should be huge with the bat, glove and his leadership as well. Should be an awesome series.

Mets in 7