Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets preview, Sunday 4/19, 1:20 CT

Sunday notes…

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING: With their win yesterday, the Cubs now are exactly .500 — 9,199 wins, 9,199 losses and 81 ties — since Opening Day of 1908! (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
IT’S BEEN A WHILE (NOT AS LONG AS ABOVE, THOUGH): The Cubs have not won five consecutive games since March 31-April 5 of last year. Today’s game will be their 162nd, a full season, since then. They have won 96 and lost 65. Their current streak is their fifth of four wins since their last five-game streak. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
AND ABOUT TIME TO DO THIS AGAIN: The Cubs have not swept a series at home against the Mets since they won three games April 20-22, 2021. They had gone 5-8 in four series since then. They swept three at New York in 2022. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
BEAT THE METS: The Mets’ current 10-game losing streak is the longest April losing streak in their franchise history. (Previous record: They lost the first nine games they played as a franchise in April 1962.)

Cubs lineup:

Mets lineup:

Javier Assad, RHP vs. Tobias Myers, RHP

Javier Assad has made one really good start and one really bad one so far this year.

He has not faced the Mets since April 30, 2024 and a lot of those guys aren’t on the Mets anymore.

No current Met has more than seven career at-bats against Assad (Francisco Lindor, 3-for-7, a home run).

Hopefully, this afternoon is a good one for Javier.

Originally, David Peterson was going to make this start for the Mets, but since he’s posted an 8.79 ERA and 1.954 WHIP and allowed eight walks and 14 earned runs in his last 14.1 innings, the Mets decided to pivot to Tobias Myers.

We’re familiar with Myers from his time with the Brewers. In fact, he came to the Mets in the same deal that brought Freddy Peralta to New York.

Myers is not really stretched out to start and this article from The Athletic says the Mets hope to get around 30 pitches from him and once through the batting order. After that, the article says, Peterson might be available out of the bullpen.

Myers made two relief appearances against the Cubs last year, throwing three scoreless innings.

Here is the weather forecast for the area around Wrigley Field.

Today’s game is on Marquee Sports Network.

Here is the complete MLB.com live streaming page for today.

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Baseball-reference.com game preview

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