Jake, Thor don’t throw versus Nats

PORT ST. LUCIE — Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard took their heat to a minor league field at the Mets complex Monday for a last full-throttle effort before the regular season.

Both pitchers are expected to make abbreviated spring training appearances this weekend before lining up for Games 1 and 2 of the season in Washington.

Over 6 ¹/3 innings against Mets players, deGrom allowed one run on seven hits with 12 strikeouts. Syndergaard pitched six innings in the same game and allowed four runs on five hits with 12 strikeouts. Neither was allowed to face the Nationals in the Grapefruit League over the past two days because they will soon be facing Washington in the regular season.

“That is who we open up against, why give them another look?” deGrom said. “I was fine with it. The main focus of today was to work on offspeed pitches, and I felt my changeup was really good today and the slider was definitely closer to where I wanted it.”

Syndergaard allowed consecutive homers to Wilson Ramos and Andres Gimenez.

Carlos Gomez appeared in his first Grapefruit League action, after receiving his work visa earlier in the day, permitting him to play. Gomez entered in the sixth inning of the Mets’ 6-5 loss to the Nationals and went hitless in two at-bats.

“I have been waiting for this for 10 days and finally I got my first game today,” said Gomez, who signed a minor league deal with the club. “It’s a lot of emotions: excited, nervous, happy. It’s a dream come true, coming back here and doing what I love.”

Gomez came up through the Mets’ minor league system and was traded to the Twins before the 2008 season in a deal for Johan Santana.

With a week remaining in spring training, Gomez appears likely to begin the season at Triple-A Syracuse. But manager Mickey Callaway isn’t ruling out anything.

“If he hits seven homers in the next week, probably not,” Callaway said, when asked if it will be tough for Gomez to make an impression before Opening Day.

Travis d’Arnaud is scheduled to start consecutive games behind the plate Thursday and Friday, which is considered among his last hurdles to show he is healthy enough to begin the season with the Mets in his return from Tommy John surgery.