Monday’s Mets snow-out will cost Seth Lugo a start — and may put his future in the rotation up in the air.
Matt Harvey, who was scheduled to pitch Monday, will be pushed back to start Tuesday against the Phillies at Citi Field, but manager Mickey Callaway has bumped up Noah Syndergaard to start Wednesday’s series finale instead of Lugo making his season debut, the club announced. The Phillies, meanwhile, will stick with Ben Lively and Aaron Nola to finish out the series.
Jacob deGrom will follow Thursday against the Nationals in Washington.
The Mets could have opted to go into the early-season showdown against their NL East foes with their one-two punch of Syndergaard and deGrom on Thursday and Saturday, with an off day scheduled for Friday, as the Nationals project to counter with Stephen Strasburg and Gio Gonzalez.