An unexpected day off, thanks to Mother Nature
PHILADELPHIA » The Phillies-Mets game Saturday night was postponed by rain at 8:04 p.m., an hour after it was scheduled.
It’s scheduled to be played Thursday, Aug. 16 at 4:05 p.m. in a doubleheader with the Mets at Citizens Bank Park.
While the Phillies and Mets are slated to play Sunday at 1:35 p.m., the forecast is for showers.
It’s also Herr’s Mother’s Appreciation Day, the Phillies honoring mothers everywhere. All women 15 and older receive a Ladies Pullover, compliments of Herr’s.
Fans holding tickets to the Saturday game can exchange them for tickets to the Aug. 16 doubleheader, or any remaining Phillies home game in 2018.
*** The Phillies are 22-16. They’re 15-6 (.714) at Citizens Bank Park, the best home record in baseball entering the day.
The Phillies are 10-4 (.714) at CBP in games that last three hours or more and 13-10 (.565) in games three hours or more games overall.
The Phillies (.600) in games three hours. are 9-6 less than
*** Lefty Adam Morgan (back strain) passed the test throwing on flat ground Saturday, per manager Gabe Kapler, and is throwing a bullpen session Sunday.
Victor Arano (shoulder) is slated to throw 20 pitches Monday at Reading.
*** The Phillies have picked off six batters entering Saturday, tied for second in the league.
The five pitcher-to-first baseman Carlos Santana is tied for third in the league.
All of the outs came when the game was two runs or closer.
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Odubel Herrera’s streak of reaching base safely in 40 straight games is tied for seventh-longest in club history per Elias.
The players ahead of him with games played: Mike Schmidt (1981-82), 56; Chuck Klein (1930), 49; Bobby Abreu (200-01), 48; Klein (1931), 44; Don Hurst (1929), 41 and Pete Rose (1982), 41; Herrera is tied for seventh place with Willie Montanez (1974), 40).
*** The Mets are 41-17 (.706) at Citizens Bank Park, since 2012.
The Mets have out-homered the Phillies, 62-26, at CBP since 2015, including 23-10 last year and 2-1 this year.
“My inclination would be to chalk it up much more to just chance,” Kapler said. “If it’s a team beating another team for a long stretch, that I would say, OK, let’s figure out if there’s anything to that. If it’s just about this ballpark and what’s happened in this ballpark, I can’t imagine that like the left centerfield gap is more advantageous to the Mets than it is to us or they just love the weather in Philadelphia. None of that stuff would be what I default to, personally.”
The Mets entered Saturday with a 41-19 record against the Phillies since the start of 2015. They’ve won 19 of their last 23 series vs. the Phils.
The Phillies have lost their first three games against the Mets this season, getting outscored, 103, in the process.