Chicago Cubs vs. New York Mets preview, Thursday 6/25, 6:10 CT

Today’s roster move: Here Thursday notes… STEP RIGHT UP AND SWEEP THE METS: The Cubs’ last sweep of the Mets at Citi Field was three games in 2022. They also won three in 2019. They captured four in a row May 31-June 3, 2018. The current series is their second of four games since then. They split in

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Thursday notes…

STEP RIGHT UP AND SWEEP THE METS: The Cubs’ last sweep of the Mets at Citi Field was three games in 2022. They also won three in 2019. They captured four in a row May 31-June 3, 2018. The current series is their second of four games since then. They split in 2024. Before 2018, the Cubs swept four when visiting the Mets only three times: June 15-17, 1962, at the Polo Grounds, and Aug. 6-8, 1965, and Aug. 2-5, 1991, at Shea Stadium. In 1969 and 1970, the Cubs won the first three games of series, then lost the fourth. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)

SIX-RUN STREAKING: The Cubs have scored at least six runs in six consecutive games. Their last such streak to reach six games was more than 26 years ago, on April 22-28, 2000. It ended the next day with a 7-4, 10-inning loss. Their last such streak of more than six games was eight, on April 16-26, 1970. They had had eight three times before, in 1920, 1925 and 1930. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
MORE ON RUN SCORING: In their last six games, the Cubs have scored 59 runs (six, eight, 16, nine, 10 and 10), eight more than in any previous six games this season: 51, April 12-18 (seven, seven, 10, 11, 12 and four). Their six-game record is 81 runs, in 1930. They had a high of 64 in 2024, 61 in 2019 and 60 in 2018. Their most runs in seven games is 87, in 1930. They scored 73 in 1961 and 2024, 69 in 2019, and 63 in 1954 and 2004. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
DANSBY ON FIRE: Dansby Swanson is on a six-game hitting streak in which he is batting .478/.519/1.174 (11-for-23) with two doubles, a triple, four home runs, 18 (!) RBI, eight runs scored and only two strikeouts.

Neither team had posted a lineup as of the time this preview posted. Please check BCB social media for tonight’s lineups.

Matthew Boyd, LHP vs. Freddy Peralta, RHP

Matthew Boyd returns tonight from his second IL stint.

The first was due to a bicep issue. After his return then, he had one okay start, one bad one and another that was pretty good, before he injured his knee playing with his kids.

He made two rehab starts at Iowa and then had a setback. His most recent rehab start, last Saturday at South

Bend, was better. He threw only 59 pitches in that one, and only 80 in the previous one for Iowa. So I wouldn’t expect him to go more than five innings tonight.

Boyd did not face the Mets when they were at Wrigley Field earlier this year. The last time he faced them was Sept. 24, 2025 at Wrigley Field, where he allowed them two runs in 5.1 innings. I think we’d take that.

Remember when Freddy Peralta was the guy many thought the Cubs could trade for to save their rotation this year?

Well, Peralta’s likely going to be available in a few weeks but is he a savior? Let’s see, he has a 4.83 ERA and 1.389 WHIP and has allowed 12 home runs in 85.2 innings. Yep, he’d fit right in with this group in Chicago!

Sigh. Actually, Peralta was doing reasonably well until he was left in to take a 10-run pounding in 2.2 innings from the Phillies in his last start. That alone raised his season ERA almost a full run (3.90 to 4.83).

Well, okay. Let the Cubs hit him hard tonight and then they can trade for him and turn him around. That works every time, right. Right?

Peralta allowed the Cubs three runs in 5.2 innings April 18 at Wrigley Field. That included a homer by Ian Happ.

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