Mets Face Old Ace Scherzer and Blue Jays in Statis-Pro

Update Results:

After homers and triples in the first few innings for both teams, it came down to the speed of the Blue Jays pinch runner Myles Straw, who stole 2nd and 3rd base before scoring the game-winning run in the 8th inning of a 3-2 win over the Mets.

Pete Alonso benefitted from the in season "add 2 HR" which turned the 33 random number from a strikeout to. Deep drive, and then a 16 was easily within the Rogers Centre 11-43 home run range on deep drives.

In the bottom of the first  Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Led off with a home to make ot 1-1, and Anthony Santander would have had a deep drive to potentially start the game with back to back homers except that his minus 2 home runs adjustment changed the 32 from a deep drive to a strike out. The Cubs would need to beat deGrom in the next game to be the only NL team to start 4-1 besides the Padres, but each NL team's 6th start will feature their ace against an AL team's No. 4 starter to flip the Game 5 advantage the AL teams had.

Below was the pregame:

The Mets Tylor Megill is still on the 15-day DL and hasn't pitched in several weeks, while their former ace Max Scherzer has only pitched once for the Blue Jays before returning from DL to get in a few recent starts - but his Statis-Pro card is the best on the Blue Jays so he is their ace in our game. However, they are our next pitcher match-ups because we play "what-if" format where we use the player cards unless the player goes on 60-day DL or is out for the season, or goes to another team.

Details of match-up and pictures of the Statis-Pro cards to be pasted below as we play the latest AL ace vs. NL No. 4 starter match-up using the cards in the free Statis-Pro game. 

Below is a photo of the Mets line-up with the Blue Jays pitchers sheet underneath starting with Scherzer. Then below that is the Blue Jays line-up with Mets pitchers laid under them.

If a player had one of the 200 best WAR ratings when we checked last month that is listed by their name, and if a batter has exceeded projections by a wide margin then we've made an in season HR adjustment or vice versa. The player links are listed in the same order below with links to their sheet at Baseball Reference.

Here are the links to the Mets and Blue Jays with Statis-Pro cards.
 

Line-up	NYM 11'-28 = HR, Citi Field NYM	WAR	Season Adj
DH	Juan Soto	44	minus HR
1b	Pete Alonso	29	add 2 HR
SS	Francisco Lindor	30
CF	Brandon Nimmo	186
3b	Mark Vientos
RF	Jesse Winker
LF	Starling Marte
2B	Jeff McNeil		add HR
C	Francisco Álvarez		minus HR
Bench	NYM 11'-28 = HR, Citi Field NYM	WAR	Season Adj
2b	Brett Baty	179
C	Luis Torrens
CF	Jose Siri		minus HR
RF	Tyrone Taylor
ss	Luisangel Acuña
cf	Hayden Senger
PB	Mets Rotation (Best card 1st)	WAR
2'-8	Kodai Senga	31
2'-8	Clay Holmes	165
2'-7	David Peterson	106
2'-7	Tylor Megill
2'-7	Sean Manaea
2'-7	Griffin Canning	127
PB	Mets Bull Pen (Best card 1st)	WAR
2'-9	Edwin Díaz
2'-8	Huascar Brazoban	136
2'-8	A.J. Minter
2'-8	Reed Garrett	148
2'-7	José Buttó
2'-7	Ryne Stanek
4'-7	Danny Young
4'-7	Joander Suarez
4'-7	Frankie Montas
4'-7	Blade Tidwell
2'-5	Grant Hartwig
4'-7	Dom Hamel
2'-6	Drew Smith
2'-6	Rico Garcia
Line-up	TOR Deep 11'-43 = HR, Rogers Centre	WAR	Season Adj
1b	Vladimir Guerrero Jr.	99
RF	Anthony Santander		minus 2 HR
SS	Bo Bichette	197
3b	Will Wagner		minus HR
dH	Tyler Heineman	115	add 3 HR
CF	George Springer		add HR
2b	Andrés Giménez
LF	Alan Roden		minus HR
C	Alejandro Kirk
Bench	TOR Deep 11'-43 = HR, Rogers Centre	WAR	Season Adj
3b	Addison Barger	160
DH	Davis Schneider
RF	Nathan Lukes
SS	Ernie Clement	75
2B	Adam Frazier
CF	Myles Straw
PB	Blue Jays Rotation (best card 1st)	WAR
2'-8	Max Scherzer
2'-7	Kevin Gausman
2'-7	Chris Bassitt	143
2'-7	José Berríos	118
2'-7	Alek Manoah
4'-7	Eric Lauer
PB	Blue Jays Relievers (best card 1st)	WAR
2'-7	Jeff Hoffman
2'-7	Yimi García
2'-7	Chad Green
4'-7	Nick Sandlin
4'-7	Brendon Little
4'-7	Adam Kloffenstein
4'-7	Rafael Sanchez
2'-6	Dillon Tate
2'-6	Mason Fluharty
2'-6	Bowden Francis
2'-6	Hayden Juenger
2'-5	Erik Swanson
2'-5	Jacob Barnes
2'-5	Devereaux Harrison