Mets Eliminate Cardinals, Catch Brewers and Phils

 Details to follow as the Mets win 7-0 and 4-3 wins over the Cardinals to catch the Brewers and Phillies. 

Four of our six NL Statis-Pro teams have now finished divisional phase, which entails playing the other five teams and one AL team in a home-and-home for 12 actual games that count as 36 games based on each being scored as a 2 games to 1 series for the winner, unless they get credit for a sweep due to leading by 5+ after 8 innings without using their closer.

The Mets wins count as a 5 games to 1 edge over the Cardinals, which not only eliminated the Cardinals from catching any of the other four, but propelled the Mets just above the Brewers and Phillies who will pay each other.

Regardless of that outcome, those there teams and the Cubs will advance to interdivisional play. in the West, the LA Dodgers look like a sure thing, and the Diamondbacks still have not won so look eliminated, so it should be four teams battling for three spots to join the Dodgers - those being the Giants, Braves, Reds and Padres.

Once that is settled, the 4 remaining East teams will play the 4 remaining West teams one time each - so only four more games - to end up with 16 actual games played in what will be recorded as a 48- game season.

After those interdivisional games, the winners of each division will get a bye and the next four best teams will meet in the playoffs.

One little in season adjustment we play - which is optional, is that if a batter's OPS is more than 0.100 higher than the OPS listed on his card, then we add 1 Home Run to his card, and the reverse if more than 0.100 lower.

This was good news for the Mets if you look at our math comparing each player's baseball reference sheet - which is good news for the Mets because earlier in their year two of their players were a -1 home run, but now they are within 0.100 so no adjustment - Francisco Álvarez and Juan Soto.

One fun part of tonight's game was Pete Alonso hitting a home run during my game while he was drawing a walk on TV against the Mariners.

Pos	Stl 11'-46 = HR, Busch Stadium		HR	SB	OPS	2-games
CF	Lars Nootbaar	minus HR	24-26	C	0.802
LF	Alec Burleson		32-24	C	0.763
DH	Brendan Donovan	All-Star	34-35	C	0.785	1b, Steal, W
2b	Nolan Gorman		22-26	C	0.755
3b	Nolan Arenado		28-32	E	0.752
C	Willson Contreras		23-25	D	0.743	2 hits
RF	Jordan Walker	minus HR	25-27	D	0.716
SS	Masyn Winn		28	B	0.69	3 singles
CF	Michael Siani			A	0.571
SS	Garrett Hampson	-2		B	0.626
DH	Victor Scott II		26	A	0.636
C	Pedro Pagés		25	D	0.647
C	Yohel Pozo		27-28	E	0.67
2B	Thomas Saggese		27-31	D	0.691
1b	Iván Herrera	sub	27	C	0.728
PB	Cardinals		K	MaxIP	ERA	2-games
2'-7	Sonny Gray		25-44	7	3.7
2'-7	Andre Pallante		25-37	6	3.93	3.7 IP 5 runs, 3 ER Gm 1, L
2'-7	Michael McGreevy		26-38	6	3.93	4 IP, 4 runs, game 2, L
2'-7	Matthew Liberatore		25-41	5	4.13
2'-8	JoJo Romero		24-43	1	3.39	1, 0 in Gm 2
2'-6	Riley O'Brien	temp card	25-41	2	4.26	1, 0 in Gm 2
2'-7	John King		27-37	2	3.56	1, 0 in Gm 2
2'-7	Kyle Leahy		25-41	2	4.68	1, 0 in Gm 2
4'-7	Gordon Graceffo		26-38	6	4.42	2.3, 0
4'-7	Miles Mikolas		27-38	6	4.56	2, 2
2'-6	Ryan Fernandez		25-43	2	3.73
2'-6	Chris Roycroft		25-38	2	4.19
2'-6	Andre Granillo		24-42	2	4.45
2'-6	Roddery Muñoz		25-41	6	4.76
2'-5	Matt Svanson		26-37	2	4.58	1, 0
Pos	NYM 11'-28 = HR, Citi Field		HR	SB	OPS	2-games
SS	Francisco Lindor	All-Star	25-31	A	0.801	3 hits, homer
DH	Juan Soto	No change	23-27	D	0.946	2 hits, 2 walks
1b	Pete Alonso	All-Star	25-32	D	0.884	1b, 2 w, HR while on my TV
C	Francisco Álvarez	No change	27-33	D	0.784	HR
CF	Brandon Nimmo		25-27	C	0.763	1b, 2b
3b	Mark Vientos	-1	24-28	E	0.759
RF	Jesse Winker	DL	24-25	C	0.739
LF	Starling Marte		32	A	0.719	HR HPB
2B	Jeff McNeil	no change	27-31	D	0.711
CF	Cedric Mullins	-2	26-28	A	0.726
3b	Ronny Mauricio	temp card	27-28	B	0.678
cf	Hayden Senger	-1		E	0.564
ss	Luisangel Acuña		31	A	0.63
RF	Tyrone Taylor	-1	26-27	A	0.683
CF	Jose Siri	DL, -2	21-24	A	0.687
C	Luis Torrens	-1	26-28	E	0.698
2b	Brett Baty	sub	25-27	D	0.714
PB	New York Mets / NL East		K	MaxIP	ERA	2-games
2'-8	Kodai Senga		23-42	7	3.51
2'-8	Clay Holmes		26-42	7	3.56	7 ip, 0 runs game 1 win
2'-7	David Peterson		25-42	6	4.07	2.7 IP, 3 runs, ejected Gm 2
2'-7	Tylor Megill	DL	25-43	6	4.37
2'-7	Sean Manaea		25-43	7	4.31
2'-7	Griffin Canning	DL	25-41	7	4.86	3.3 IP, 0 Run, Win game 2
2'-9	Edwin Díaz	All-Star	23-53	2	2.94	1, 0 in Gm 2 Sv
2'-9	Ryan Helsley		23-45	2	2.77
2'-8	Huascar Brazobán		25-41	2	2.7	1, 0 in Gm 2 Hold
4'-7	Brooks Raley		24-42	1	3.92
2'-8	Gregory Soto		23-43	1	3.44	1, 0 in Gm 2 Hold
2'-8	AJ Minter	DL	24-44	1	3.42	game 1 - 1 ip 0 r
2'-8	Reed Garrett		23-44	2	3.53
2'-8	Tyler Rogers		27-41	1	3.52
2'-7	Ryne Stanek		23-43	1	3.88
4'-7	Danny Young	DL	23-42	1	4.3
4'-7	Frankie Montas		25-42	6	4.65
4'-7	Dom Hamel		25-38	6	4.78
2'-6	Drew Smith	DL	24-43	1	4.29