Philadelphia at New York

New York has won six straight and eight out of nine to move seven games in front of Atlanta in the NL East. The Mets have allowed only nine runs in their last five games, and they have Max Scherzer on the mound tonight. He has been pitching as well as he was a decade ago. The right-hander is 8-2 with a 1.98 ERA, and he hasn't allowed more than two earned runs his last nine starts, including a 6-2 win over Atlanta on Saturday when he pitched seven scoreless innings on four hits. Philadelphia had its seven-game win streak snapped in a 3-0 loss to Miami on Thursday. Ranger Suarez faced the Mets once this year and gave up three runs on five hits in just 2 2/3 innings. New York has one of the best closers in the Majors in Edwin Diaz, who has 26 saves and a 1.39 ERA (0.86 WHIP). New York has won the last four meetings and eight of the last 10. Take the Mets for a Max Play.