The New York Mets hope to gain more ground in the division race when they continue their new youth movement and send rookie Jonah Tong to the mound for his MLB debut on Friday.
The young righty, 22, has been so dominant to the point of video game-like across Double and Triple-A this season. He’s also set up for success, making his first major league start against a relatively subaverage Marlins team. As in the same subaverage Marlins team that got to the Mets bullpen on Thursday and pulled off a 7-4 win.
The loss put the Mets five games behind first-place Philadelphia.