No Noah as session delayed
NOAH Syndergaard did not pitch in a simulated game as scheduled Sunday. The Mets righthander reported “general soreness,” remaining from his rehab start on Thursday and was shut down for a day or two.
“We aren’t going to push him. Go at his pace and see how he feels,” Terry Collins said. “Last night, he said he was still a little sore from the outing the other day. He wanted to throw a bullpen. We just said no. We’re not going to do that. Obviously tomorrow is off, so he’ll rest and see where he is on Tuesday or Wednesday. Hopefully Tuesday get him back on the mound and have a side session in Chicago.”
Syndergaard, who has been on the disabled list since May 1 after tearing his right lat, was scheduled to throw 50 pitches on Sunday. He struggled in his outing on Thursday. He allowed three runs on three hits for Class-A short season Brooklyn. He walked two and just got two strikeouts in two innings of work. He needed 36 pitches to get through those two innings. The plan would have Syndergaard “piggyback,” with another starter giving him a very strict pitch count.
TERRY TOSSED
Collins was ejected by first base umpire Jerry Layne in the eighth inning AP after the Reds added a run on a play that was overturned by the replay crew in Chelsea. Plate ump Shane Livensparger had initially ruled that Scott Schebler was out at home on Tucker Barnhart’s double. Collins went out for an explanation. “I just wanted to know what they were told,” Collins said of asking for the ruling from the replay crew. “I looked at the replay five times, not one thing I saw that could have possibly overturned it for me. I didn’t have a chance at the time. Our guy, who is pretty darn good, he said he’s out.”
Collins said that he got no explanation, but the video review seemed to show that catcher Travis d’Arnaud did not complete the tag and instead had his glove and the ball pushed aside as Schebler slid in. Arguing the replay call is an automatic ejection.
Jacob deGrom cannot do it by himself. The Mets righthander battled back from a slow start and pitched six solid innings Sunday, only to watch the bullpen blow it in a 10-5 loss to the Reds at Citi Field.
The loss snapped a four-game winning streak for the Mets (6380) and was just the Reds’ (62-82) third win in their last 21 meetings against the Mets, who finish their homestand 5-2.
Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart homered off Hansel Robles in the ninth and had a two-run double in the eighth off Jeurys Familia. Zack Cozart hit a three-run homer off Paul Sewald in the seventh inning as the Reds rallied from a three-run deficit.
DeGrom struggled at the start, giving up two singles and a walk to the first three batters he faced, and ended up giving up two runs in the first. He allowed three hits, walked three and held the Reds to just those two runs.
“I realized the first couple of hits weren’t hit very hard. They just beat guys there, hit them where nobody was,” deGrom said of shrugging off the first inning. “I tried to stay level-headed, try and go up and put up zeroes. These guys did a great job to battle back and get me a lead.”
Dominic Smith drove in two runs. The first on a RBI-single in the third, tying the game, and then he homered to lead off the sixth, giving the Mets their first lead of the day.
With pinch hitter Phillip Evans at the plate and the potential go-ahead run on second, Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart recovered a curveball in the dirt and nailed Smith trying to take third base.