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New York Mets<\/a> (15-23, fifth in the NL East) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> (17-20, third in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Saturday, 7:15 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Clay Holmes<\/a> (4-2, 1.69 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 31 strikeouts); Diamondbacks: Merrill Kelly<\/a> (1-3, 9.95 ERA, 2.32 WHIP, 14 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Mets -127, Diamondbacks +107; over\/under is 9 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Arizona Diamondbacks look to end their three-game home losing streak with a win against the New York Mets.<\/p>\n

Arizona is 17-20 overall and 10-9 at home. The Diamondbacks have a 14-7 record in games when they record at least eight hits.<\/p>\n

New York has a 15-23 record overall and a 9-11 record on the road. The Mets are 8-1 in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the fifth meeting between these teams this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> has a .353 batting average to lead the Diamondbacks, and has seven doubles, two triples and six home runs. Lourdes Gurriel Jr.<\/a> is 11 for 35 with three RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Marcus Semien<\/a> has six doubles and two home runs for the Mets. Juan Soto<\/a> is 10 for 39 with two doubles, a triple and three home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Diamondbacks: 2-8, .195 batting average, 5.13 ERA, outscored by 22 runs<\/p>\n

Mets: 6-4, .230 batting average, 3.69 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Diamondbacks: Ketel Marte: day-to-day (illness), Carlos Santana<\/a>: 10-Day IL (groin), Jordan Lawlar<\/a>: 60-Day IL (wrist), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Andrew Saalfrank<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Cristian Mena: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Corbin Burnes<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Pavin Smith: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Martinez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Mets: Joey Gerber: 15-Day IL (finger), A.J. Minter: 15-Day IL (lat), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (wrist), Ronny Mauricio<\/a>: 10-Day IL (thumb), Luis Robert<\/a>: 10-Day IL (back), Kodai Senga<\/a>: 15-Day IL (spinal lumbar ), Jared Young<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Francisco Lindor: 10-Day IL (calf), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow), Dedniel Nunez: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"New York Mets (15-23, fifth in the NL East) vs. Arizona Diamondbacks (17-20, third in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[13491,22,5,7905,1717,1712,97,75686,16566,15622,543,120,134,25115,651,1716,1447,999,19,386,660,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203,4804],"class_list":["post-694282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-new-york-mets","tag-andrew-saalfrank","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-walston","tag-carlos-santana","tag-clay-holmes","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-event_preview","tag-ildemaro-vargas","tag-jared-young","tag-jordan-lawlar","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-justin-martinez","tag-kodai-senga","tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","tag-luis-robert-jr","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-marcus-semien","tag-merrill-kelly","tag-mets","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-ronny-mauricio"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116544028288892887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694282","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=694282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}