DAILY MATCHUPS: Alcantara draws Citi Field start on Sunday

Today's Overview/Schedule/Weather: Sunday’s action includes 15 games. Fourteen of those contests are scheduled as daytime affairs; the Yankees and Red Sox will close out their four-game series under the lights at Fenway Park. Sunday sets up as a dry one across the baseball weather map. Up and down the Matchup Ratings, it’s the middle of the bell curve loaded with the most hurlers. LHP Julio Urías – who owns a 2.15 ERA/2.93 xERA over his last five starts -- is the top-rated pitcher on the board.

 

Notable Starts:

Sandy Alcantara has an impressive line against current Mets batters. NYM batters own an aggregate .642 OPS against him. The last season-and-a-half Alcantara has turned a jump in GB% (56% in 2022) and velo (97.8 in 2022) into...

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