{"id":107941,"date":"2025-06-16T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/107941\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:58:09","slug":"mets-pitching-has-to-avoid-falling-apart-in-key-june-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/107941\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets&#8217; pitching has to avoid falling apart in key June stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mets\u2019 pitching staff has been among the best and most surprising stories in baseball for most of the first half, and they still lead MLB in ERA despite <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/15\/sports\/mets-swept-by-rays-as-griffin-cannings-struggles-add-to-growing-rotation-question-marks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 9-0 trouncing by the Rays<\/a> on Sunday to complete a weekend sweep at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>But the past week also has brought a few of those arms back down to earth and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/15\/sports\/timing-of-mets-rotation-troubles-come-with-plenty-of-worry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">those legitimate offseason questions back to the surface<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While staff ace Kodai Senga has joined Sean Manaea and free-agent signing Frankie Montas on the injured list, the Mets also received step-backward performances this weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/14\/sports\/tylor-megill-struggles-in-mets-loss-to-rays-with-rotation-questions-mounting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from previously capable rotation fill-ins Tylor Megill<\/a> (Saturday) and Griffin Canning (Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>The first-place Mets (45-27) will face NL East rivals the Braves (seven times) and the Phillies (three) over the next 10 games beginning Tuesday night in Atlanta, a stretch that will carry them past the 81-game midpoint of the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mets\u2019 pitching staff has been among the best and most surprising stories in baseball for most of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[5,1273,98,4,61,1274,297,185,428,2550,68,2551,2549,1326],"class_list":{"0":"post-107941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-rays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-griffin-canning","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","14":"tag-rays","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-tampa-bay","18":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","19":"tag-tampabay","20":"tag-tampabayrays","21":"tag-tylor-megill"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114692928550723692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}