HEAVEN SENT!

deGrom shuts down Halos to snap Mets’ 7-game skid

Jacob deGrom finally pitched like an ace. The righty threw seven scoreless innings to lead the Mets to a 3-0 victory over the Angels on Friday night at Citi Field, ending the Amazin’s seven-game losing streak.

The Mets took a two-run lead into the seventh inning with Jacob deGrom firmly in command on the mound against the Angels.

And then everything began to look eerily familiar.

A leadoff double by Andrelton Simmons, a callus on deGrom’s pitching hand, two more Angels runners to load the bases with no one out.

In the midst of a calamitous seven-game losing streak, Friday night’s game had all the markings of yet another — until suddenly, it didn’t and the Mets held on for a 3-0 win over the Angels.

Somehow, deGrom righted himself by striking out Danny Espinosa, Jose Reyes made a juggling catch in shallow center, Cameron Maybin flied out to right and the Mets went on to win for the first since May 9.

“We needed a win bad,’’ manager Terry Collins said. “Going back to that Giants loss, the last one at home [before the 0-6 road trip], we should have won some games and we haven’t, so this one’s big.”

And he didn’t hesitate to let deGrom finish the inning despite his trouble in the seventh, even after a callus ripped off while he faced Simmons.

“It’s unbelievable what he did in the seventh,” Collins said. “That’s what you come to expect from those guys.”

Collins said he liked the matchup against each of the three batters deGrom faced the rest of the frame and his confidence paid off — thanks to an assist from Reyes.

DeGrom entered the game having not lasted more than six innings in any of his starts this season, but he didn’t allow a runner to reach scoring position until a wild pitch sent Kole Calhoun to second with two outs in the sixth. That prompted Collins, with a full count, to walk Mike Trout intentionally. The move paid off when Luis Valbuena grounded out to end the inning.

In the top of the seventh, deGrom quickly found more trouble.

After the Simmons double, deGrom walked C.J. Cron on four pitches. DeGrom then hit Martin Maldonado on a 3-1 pitch to load the bases. But the righty responded by getting Espinosa for the first out.

Pinch hitter Ben Revere then sent a soft liner into shallow center. Reyes raced back, but the ball popped out of his glove. Reyes recovered and caught the ball for the second out. Finally, deGrom got Maybin to fly out to keep the Angels from getting on the board.

Afterward, there was plenty of praise for Reyes, back at short because of the thumb injury to Asdrubal Cabrera.

DeGrom said his initial thought on the play was, “‘Please somebody get there,’ and he did.”

Reyes admitted he thought the ball would drop when he bobbled it and Collins said with the way things have gone for the Mets lately, the ball was certain to fall. But Reyes recovered, “The second time, I got it.’’

Michael Conforto, who scored the game’s first run on Curtis Granderson’s two-out double in the first, led off the bottom of the seventh with his 11th homer of the season to give the Mets a 3-0 lead.

The Angels got two more runners on in the eighth before Paul Sewald struck out Cron to end the threat and Addison Reed pitched a stressfree ninth for his first save since Jeurys Familia went on the disabled list.

But most important was the start from deGrom, who hadn’t pitched more than six innings this season and struck out nine in his seven innings.

Collins is hoping this is a start of a turnaround for the entire rotation.

“This is what I thought … we were going to be able to do, get our starting pitchers to really carry us,’’ Collins said. “We’ve got to get our pitching going moving forward. We didn’t break camp with imagination. These guys are legit. We’ve got to get them right.”