Houston Astros (70-91) at New York Mets (78-83), 1:10 p.m. (ET)
(SportsNetwork.com) - Long Island native Nick Tropeano gets a chance to pitch in front of some of his fans Sunday when the Houston Astros and New York Mets finish the 2014 season.
Tropeano, a native of West Islip, NY, approximately an hour outside Citi Field, takes the field for his fourth major league start. The Houston right- hander lasted 6 2/3 innings on Monday in a 4-3 loss to the Rangers.
Bartolo Colon finishes his 17th major league season when he takes the mound for the Mets. The 41-year-old right-hander, who is signed at $11 million for next season with the Mets, is coming off a loss to the Nationals on Tuesday. He's 7-3 with a 3.36 ERA in 11 career starts versus Houston.
Today will mark the end of Bobby Abreu's 18-year major league career and will also likely see Houston's Jose Altuve take home the batting title, the first in the Astros' franchise history. Altuve has a .340 batting average, which is three points better than Detroit's Victor Martinez going into the last day.
Last night, Lucas Duda hit a two-run home run with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Mets a 2-1 win.
With one out and Tony Sipp (4-3) on the mound, Eric Young tripled to left- center field and remained there after Daniel Murphy flied out.
Duda, though, drilled a pitch that hit hard off the netting on the right field foul pole for the win.
"He's talked about that he can hit lefties and he's really focused on doing that," Mets manager Terry Collins said of Duda.
The home run made a winner out of Jenrry Mejia (6-6), who tossed a scoreless ninth inning. Rafael Montero gave up a run on six hits with a pair of walks and six strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings for the Mets, who had lost three of four coming in.
"It's a game of inches," Astros interim manager Tom Lawless said. "That ball could have hooked foul, but it didn't."
This is the first series between the clubs since 2012, when the Astros went 4-2 in the season set.