Wednesday, July 9, 2026 \u2022 1:10 PM<\/strong><\/span> Tuesday night was another low point for the Mets this season. They lost 16-12 against the Royals, a game they should have easily won. Last night the Mets had a nice bounce-back win with a five-run rally in the eighth inning. The Mets\u2019 offense seems to be clicking, and maybe there is hope starting to percolate through the surface! A win today would mean the Mets would win the series!<\/p>\n Aug 26, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets pitcher Sean Manaea (59) pitches against the Philadelphia Phillies during the first inning at Citi Field. Mandatory Credit: John Jones-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Starting Pitcher: Sean Manaea<\/p>\n Sean Manaea has pitched in 19 games this year, totaling 68 innings with a 4.76 ERA, 4.02 FIP, 1.353 WHIP and an 87 ERA+. He allowed six runs, but only three earned, in his last start of five innings against the Braves. Since returning to the rotation, Manaea has pitched 25 innings over five games with a 4.32 ERA and 4.04 FIP while striking out 23 batters. The Royals have the following career stats against him:<\/p>\n The Mets\u2019 bats will face off against former Met Michael Wacha. Wacha pitched for the Mets in 2020 with a 6.62 ERA over 34 innings (eight games). This season, Wacha has made 18 starts and is leading the league with 114 2\/3 innings. He has a 3.45 ERA, 3.92 FIP, 1.160 WHIP and a 119 ERA+. He had a pair of good starts to end June, allowing two runs over 14 2\/3 innings. In his last start, he allowed four runs from eight hits, including three home runs against the Phillies. The Mets have the following career stats against him:<\/p>\n Let\u2019s go Mets!<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source metsmerizedonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday, July 9, 2026 \u2022 1:10 PMCiti Field \u2022 Flushing, NYRHP Michael Wacha (5-6, 3.45) vs. LHP Sean Manaea (1-4, 4.76)SNY Tuesday night was another low point for the Mets this season. They lost 16-12 against the Royals, a game they should have easily won. Last night the Mets had a nice bounce-back win with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2495163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Game-Chat-Royals-vs-Mets-110-PM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2495164,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495162\/revisions\/2495164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Citi Field \u2022 Flushing, NY<\/b><\/span>
RHP Michael Wacha<\/a> (5-6, 3.45) vs. LHP Sean Manaea<\/a> (1-4, 4.76)<\/strong><\/span>
SNY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nMets Lineup<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Game Notes<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Three Things To Watch For<\/span><\/h3>\n
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