Padres vs. Mets Odds: Series Price, Game 1 Line, Prediction
The New York Mets are the National League's fourth seed and highest-ranked wild card. They play the San Diego Padres in a best-of-three wild-card series that begins Friday. The Mets have a large -194 favorites to advance.
New York is listed as a -135 favorite at DraftKings and San Diego as +130 at FanDuel for the series opener on Friday at 8:07 pm ET.
The Mets finished tied for the East lead with Atlanta but lost out on the head-to-head tiebreaker. The Mets are the fourth team since 1995 to win 100 or more games and enter the postseason as a wild card. San Diego finished 89-73 this season and finished 22 games behind the LA Dodgers in the West. This marks San Francisco's second trip to the playoffs since 2006.
Yu Darvish is projected to be the Game 1 starter for the Padres. The next up for San Diego is left-hander Blake Snell. If the Mets win the opener, they could move up Chris Bassitt to start Game 3.
The Mets have scored 67 more runs than San Diego this season. Jeff McNeil is the league's batting champion. First baseman Pete Alonso is fourth in the majors in homers with 40 and second in RBIs with 131. Manny Machado and Juan Soto are the most dynamic middle of the order for the Padres. Fernando Tatis is still injured.
The Mets blew a 10.5-game division lead and are now in the wild-card round. Last season, the Mets missed the postseason entirely.
DeGrom has a blister on his middle finger and Scherzer is recovering from an oblique injury. San Diego is the team to beat. Josh Hader is coming on late in the season.
