{"id":224490,"date":"2025-09-13T21:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224490\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T21:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:06:14","slug":"new-york-mets-announce-saturday-lineup-vs-texas-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224490\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets announce Saturday lineup vs Texas Rangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/06d791d2-0f09-4254-bf49-59e8806afea3-20190220_jfv_bv1_288.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NY Mets pay tribute to Jacob deGrom before he returns to Citi Field mound<\/p>\n<p>As Jacob deGrom made his first start back at Citi Field since leaving the Mets, the club played a video tribute on Sept. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Jacob deGrom got the upper hand on his former team on Friday night at Citi Field.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/mets\/2025\/09\/12\/how-rangers-jacob-degrom-was-received-in-first-game-back-against-ny-mets-at-citi-field\/86113093007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-awaited return after three years away<\/a>, deGrom, now with the Rangers, allowed three earned runs over seven innings as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/mets\/2025\/09\/13\/ny-mets-youth-experiment-hits-brief-snag-as-jonah-tong-tagged-in-loss-to-rangers\/86113125007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mets were taken down 8-3<\/a> in the series opener.<\/p>\n<p>Now, heading into the second game of the series at 4:10 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, the Mets will need to take down the Rangers to snap a seven-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets&#8217; advantage for the final NL Wild Card spot has been trimmed to a half-game by the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener\">Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Sproat will be making his second career start on Saturday for the Mets after allowing three earned runs in six innings and suffering the loss against the Reds in his debut last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Corbin will look to move the Rangers closer to a playoff spot. He enters the day with a 7-9 record, 4.36 ERA and 1.32 WHIP. The Rangers are two games back of the Mariners for the final AL playoffs spot.<\/p>\n<p>As the Mets and Rangers play the second game of their series on Saturday, here are the lineup for both teams:<\/p>\n<p>NY Mets announce Saturday lineup vs RangersRangers announce Saturday lineup vs Mets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NY Mets pay tribute to Jacob deGrom before he returns to Citi Field mound As Jacob deGrom made&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":191567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,591,10595,5048,3189,12102,121662,22967,20415,3685,635,405,403,4716,1305,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,450,1457,15912,20397,1451,12100,12097,10596,2086,1288,3190,62,1458,358,1278,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,636],"class_list":{"0":"post-224490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cincinnati","11":"tag-cincinnati-reds","12":"tag-content","13":"tag-content-sharing-ny-pro-sports","14":"tag-corbin","15":"tag-giants","16":"tag-mariners","17":"tag-mets","18":"tag-new","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-new-york-giants","22":"tag-new-york-mets","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-newyork","25":"tag-newyorkcity","26":"tag-ny","27":"tag-nyc","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-positive","30":"tag-patrick","31":"tag-patrick-corbin","32":"tag-positive","33":"tag-pro","34":"tag-rangers","35":"tag-reds","36":"tag-seattle","37":"tag-seattle-mariners","38":"tag-sharing","39":"tag-sports","40":"tag-sports-news","41":"tag-texas","42":"tag-texas-rangers","43":"tag-united-states","44":"tag-united-states-of-america","45":"tag-unitedstates","46":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","47":"tag-us","48":"tag-usa","49":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}