Steven Matz brings strong ratings to Mets on SNY
Mets starting pitcher Steven Matz is interviewed after the baseball game against the Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field on Sunday, June 28, 2015. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Steven Matz's major-league debut Sunday averaged 3.22 percent of homes in the New York area on SNY, the highest-rated Mets day game this season and third-highest-rated game overall.
It also was SNY's highest-rated Mets weekend day game since April 2012.
Matz allowed two runs, five hits and three walks in 72/3 innings, striking out six. The Ward Melville High School graduate also drove in four runs with a 3-for-3 performance at the plate.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
