The Mets host the Phillies, Philadelphia leading the Mets by seven games in the NL East. New York owns a 1 1/2 game lead for the third wild card slot. Cristopher Sanchez faces Kodai Senga. Sanchez stands second to Paul Skenes in Enhanced Tom Tango Cy Young Points after Skenes delivered a masterpiece Sunday. We may be over the era in which we weight wins a lot, but Bill James Cy Young Points put Sanchez well ahead of Skenes. (Freddy Peralta is first in that category.) If the two are close, does the tiebreaker come down to more wins on a first place team?

Senga owns a 2.58 ERA in 104 2/3 innings over twenty starts. He walked 50 batters but also induced ten GDPs.

Tarik Skubal is the defacto best pitcher in the game now that Zack Wheeler is done for the season. Skubal cut into Wheeler’s big lead, and now has over a 30 point lead over Nathan Eovaldi and Skenes in the Bill James pitcher rankings. He faces the Athletics and J.T. Ginn. Ginn has not been a tonic for the Athletics staff, posting a 4.95 ERA in 60 innings. He allowed 13 home runs

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