The Mets have completed a 3 game sweep over their arch rival Philadelphia Phillies, who thought and it looked like they were gonna come into Citi Field and Bury and get rid of the Mets. The exact opposite happened…. LOL. The first game started out odd.

Let’s Recap the Series

The Phillies began with 1 run and adding two others on in the 3rd and that would be all they would score. The Mets started to absolutely demolish them and that game ended 13–3 Final Score. Tuesdays Game went about the same way, the Phillies scored 2 first but then the Mets bats really picked up scoring 5 in the 5th inning. It wasn’t until a home run by Harrison Bader a former Met that it was tied. Luckily in the bottom of the 9th a walk off base hit by Brandon Nimmo ended the game and the Mets won again 6–5. Finally tonight’s game started off HOT Nolan McLean was the real story of tonight, he got through 8.0 scoreless innings. The Mets Bats continued to be hot scoring 3 in the 3rd,1 in the 5th and a Mark Vientos Home run into left field put the hammer down in the 8th inning. Brooks Raley closed out the game and the Mets shut out the Phillies 6–0 and Swept them back to the city of Philadelphia. Citi field has SERIOUSLY become the Phillies House of Horrors and it’s pretty hysterical. They are 0–8 since the 2024 Postseason and the Mets lead the season series 7–2. Much like the Mets at Truist Park the Phillies are not fond of Citi Field. One post on Twitter says “I’ve never thought I’d hate a building so much,Clipped with an Image of Citi Field. Another one says “Barring something happening in the postseason, we’re going to get GTA VI before the next Phillies win at Citi Field”. I don’t think I’ve seen this many negative Phillies fans in a while. Anyways Citi Field is a house of horrors for the Phillies and it’s just funny now. The next time the Mets meet the Phillies is at Citizens Bank Park in September where hopefully they can start to creep up on the Phillies and Win an NL East. The Mets have an off day before they meet another NL East Team the Miami Marlins. Another good stat to look at is The Phillies have Lost 10 straight games at Citi Field…. So yeah this stadium is the Phillies worst nightmare. The Mets Sweep the Phillies for the 2nd time this season both at Citi Field in Queens,NY

Mets Pitching was Outstanding

after an absoulutley outstanding outing by Pitcher Nolan McLean. McLean now posts an incredible 0.89 ERA McLean Now owns the Lowest ERA in Major League Baseball. Kodai Senga had a pretty good outing Monday only giving up 3 Runs. Sean Manaea Looked better than he has recently giving up a few runs and again McLean looked incredible tonight. Nolan McLean will be a Nightmare for some other teams coming into these games against the Mets.

Moving Forward

The Mets will not want to forget about this series against Philadelphia but need to keep it going against Miami and then into next week against the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds. The Reds Specifically are 4.0 Games back behind the Mets in the NL Wild card, so the Mets need to continue to win Ballgames and they need to play well against the Reds if the Mets want a chance at October Baseball, which it’s looking pretty good right now. The Mets then Meet the Phillies again but this time it’s at That Stadium in South Philadelphia, The Mets last time at Citizens Bank Park went 1–2 with an incredible outing on June 21st. But we hope that they either sweep or at least take 2 of 3 from the Phillies and Keep nudging toward October baseball. So that’s a look at the next 2 weeks of New York Mets Baseball.

Upcoming Pitching Matchups Versus Miami

Game 1-Thursday August 28,2025 7:10PM ET 

NYM- Clay Holmes (3.60 ERA)

MIA-TBD

Game 2-Friday August 29,2025 7:10PM ET

NYM-Jonah Tong (MLB Debut, 0.00 ERA)

Pitcher Jonah Tong Makes his Major league debut with the Mets against the Marlins on Friday. Tong Posts a 1.43 ERA and just looks outstanding with Binghamton and Syracuse.

MIA-Eury Perez (3.44 ERA)

Game 3-Saturday August 30,2025 4:10PM ET

NYM-David Peterson (3.18 ERA)

MIA-Edward Cabrera (3.32 ERA)

Game 4-Sunday August 31,2025 1:40PM ET

NYM-Kodai Senga (2.73 ERA)

MIA-TBD

The Mets are looking to go strong into this 4 game set and after this huge sweep over the Phillies it’s looking good. That’s all for this blog, Follow Us here on Medium,You can also find this blog on the MSNNY Wesbite Linked Here. LGM!

Previewing This Series

The Mets are back in Queens this week starting out a 7 Game homestand with a 3 game set against their arch rival Philadelphia Phillies. Things are starting to heat up in the National League East as the Mets are now 7.0 Games back behind Philadelphia. The Phillies are really coming into this series to basically finish off the Mets as some of their fans are saying even though there is another 4 game set between these 2 in September back in Philadelphia. Anyways Going into this tough 3 game series for the Mets this is a series this team wants to and needs to perform well in. The last time these 2 teams met in Flushing was toward the end of April. The Mets swept the Phillies at home sending them back to Philadelphia with sad faces. They then met the Phillies in South Philadelphia on June 20th,21st and 22nd. The Mets took 1 game out of 3 on June 21st when they absolutley blew out the Phillies team they won that game 11–4. The friday and sunday games were not so pretty. I was glad to have been in person for the giant 11–4 Mets win. The Current season series is at 4–2 with the Mets leading it at the moment. Going into this week its going to be a gritty and tough matchup. Mondays Game (I will be at) is almost sold out according to the Mets ticketing website. Im sure there will be a decent amount of annoying Phillies fans but im expecting a majority of Mets fans out in Queens the next 3 days. We could be looking at 2 playoff teams or maybe 1 playoff team. These are 2 pottentially very good teams and we could be in for some good games the next 3 days.

Recent Mets Struggles (Specifically Pitching)

The Mets have recently been struggling as every other baseball team does. However you always hope that these struggles come at the start of the season… Not mid to end August getting dangerously close to September and in the near future October Postseason baseball. They Fortunately took the series from the Atlanta Braves but the recent pitching struggles specifically Reed Garret and Ryan Helsley. Another worry out of the Bullpen is Ryne Stanek and kind of worried about Gregory Soto although i really have little to none worry for him. Starting pitching has been pretty ok recently especially Nolan McLean who for his first 2 starts has almost looked like an ace posting a 1.46 ERA and 0.81 WHIP. Clay Holmes looked fantastic his last outing, Kodai Senga had slight struggles his last outing but his ERA is still on the lower side which is good. Sean Manaea is my biggest pitching concern at the moment. He has not looked like the Sean Manaea from last season he posts a 5.15 ERA and 1.12 WHIP. Alot different than last year.

Getting The Offense to Hit and Homer them more

Ultimately if the Mets wanna come out with at least 2 out of 3 wins in this Mets-Phillies series they have to start hitting the ball better. This means more home runs from Guys like Pete Alonso who has latley cooled down, Francisco Lindor who has hit good but not many home runs and more of the bottom of order guys. This is how the Mets can beat the Phillies out of Queens.

The Mets Are coming off a 3 game,2 Win series against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Mets had a pretty well fought series against the Brewers as they took 2 out of 3. The first game was an honestly good one until a Grand Slam hit by Joey Ortiz. Unfortunately the Mets were the first ones to give up a Grand Slam To Brewers Shortstop Joey Ortiz. From there on the Game just got ugly. The final score was 7–2 Brewers Win. Game 2 went more of the Mets way, Note that these 2 games were played on the same day. Brandon Nimmo gave the Mets fireworks as he hit a Grand Slam ultimately giving the Mets the lead and a 7–3 Win at the end. The 3rd and Final game went the Mets direction as well. Since switching Francisco Lindor to the 2nd Spot in the lineup the Mets have gone 2–0. They Won the 3rd game 3–2. Now the Mets move on to their cross city rivals from the Bronx The New York Yankees. Anytime the Yankees come to Queens it’s a fun and exciting time! Last time the Mets faced the Yankees was earlier in May where the Mets unfortunately dropped 2 out of 3. Juan Soto the former Yankee was greeted with Boo’s And some signs that pictures are attached below (See on Medium.com)

The Mets and Juan Soto felt the pain from this and From Yankee Stadium, they ended up dropping 2 of 3 to The Other New York Team. Now on a fresh clean slate another 3 game set against the Yankees but this time in Queens. Yet both teams all of a sudden are struggling. The Mets have had almost all of their starting pitchers listed on the IL and the Yankees are coming off a Sweep from the Blue Jays in Toronto. So this could turn into an interesting series. At the Moment the Mets do not have pitchers for Games 1 and 3 but Frankie Montas will take the Mound Saturday in what last time was a rough outing for Montas. This has been a really rough stretch losing a lot of Mets pitchers Including Kodai Senga,Griffin Canning,Paul Blackburn,Tylor Megill and Sean Manaea still being out. In the Meantime it’s looking like Justin Hagenman Will start Fridays Game and Brandon Waddell will start Sundays Game. But again this is To Be Determined/To Be Announced. Meanwhile Yankees pitching is Yankees pitching tonight against Marcus Stroman could be good looking at his ERA but the rest of the weekend could be tough. Again you can’t just look at the ERA but it’s a good sign. Carlos Rodon will take the Mound for The Yankees Saturday then A familiar foe of Max Fried will take the mound Sunday. All in all this is looking like to shape up to be a pretty good series that I look forward to. These 3 games will be Played at Citi Field in Flushing,NY and will be streamed on SNY and Can be listened to On MetsRadio880 or WFAN.