{"id":672323,"date":"2026-04-10T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672323\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:39:22","slug":"mets-open-3-game-series-at-home-against-the-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672323\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets open 3-game series at home against the Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athletics<\/a> (5-7, fourth in the AL West) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (7-6, third in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Athletics: J.T. Ginn<\/a> (0-0, 5.14 ERA, 1.14 WHIP, four strikeouts); Mets: Clay Holmes<\/a> (2-0, 1.42 ERA, 0.95 WHIP, nine strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Mets -156, Athletics +130; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets host the Athletics on Friday to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

New York has a 7-6 record overall and a 3-3 record at home. The Mets are 10th in the NL with 10 total home runs, averaging 0.8 per game.<\/p>\n

The Athletics are 5-7 overall and 3-6 in road games. Athletics hitters have a collective .353 slugging percentage to rank seventh in the AL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Luis Robert<\/a> has two home runs while hitting .333 for the Mets. Francisco Alvarez<\/a> is 7 for 30 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Shea Langeliers<\/a> has a double, five home runs and eight RBIs for the Athletics. Max Muncy<\/a> is 14 for 39 with four doubles, a triple, two home runs and five RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 5-5, .242 batting average, 3.29 ERA, outscored opponents by two runs<\/p>\n

Athletics: 5-5, .242 batting average, 4.86 ERA, outscored by 10 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Jorge Polanco<\/a>: day-to-day (achilles), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Athletics: Brent Rooker: day-to-day (undisclosed), Gunnar Hoglund: 60-Day IL (knee)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletics (5-7, fourth in the AL West) vs. New York Mets (7-6, third in the NL East) New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,1712,75686,1347,631,120,134,25115,999,19,1532,4,3226,61,3442],"class_list":{"0":"post-672323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-clay-holmes","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-francisco-alvarez","13":"tag-j-t-ginn","14":"tag-jorge-polanco","15":"tag-juan-soto","16":"tag-justin-hagenman","17":"tag-luis-robert-jr","18":"tag-major-league-baseball","19":"tag-max-muncy","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-mlb-athletics","22":"tag-new-york-mets","23":"tag-shea-langeliers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116379514562192427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672323","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=672323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}