Today’s Lineups
Happy Mother’s Day, to those who observe it. It’s not too late to go out and get a bunch of flowers, a balloon and a plush animal from one of those stalls that have suddenly popped-up overnight, on garage forecourts and street corners… I’ve no doubt the pink bats and other equipment will be out in force this afternoon, and I’d expect a heavy emphasis on maternity this afternoon. The team are giving away quite a spiffy promotional item this afternoon, and I’m sure the lines at Chase Field were quite long. Been quite a well-attended series already, with over thirty thousand on both Friday and Saturday.
That’s an improvement over the last time the Mets series at Chase was over a weekend: it was back in 2022, when the three games totaled seventy thousand. Though compared to the same point last year, attendance at Chase is down about 2,500 per game. Not surprising, coming off the first losing season since that same 2022 campaign. All told, MLB attendance is up 894 per game. Though almost half that total is due entirely to the Blue Jays, who have seen the average crowds in Toronto surge, on the back of their pennant win, by more than 12,300. On the other end, Atlanta, oddly, are down even more than Arizona, despite their early-season surge.
Rubber game of the set this afternoon, and it could also decide the season series. That is currently 3-2 in Arizona’s favor, courtesy of them taking two of three in New York. I doubt it’ll be particularly relevant at the end of the year in determining a playoff spot. But the Diamondbacks haven’t won the overall season series against the Mets since back in 2017. So that would be a nice moral victory at least. We’ll see if Eduardo Rodriguez can keep the roll of current good starts going for the D-backs. It has certainly been in sharp contrast to the previous two turns through the rotation.
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