DeGrom belts HR for Mets

Mets ace Jacob deGrom (5-3, 4.33) hit his first major league home run and shut down a bruising Nationals lineup on three singles for eight dominant innings Sunday afternoon, giving the Mets a 5-1 win that prevented a four-game sweep. “I was running pretty hard,” deGrom said. “I didn’t know it was gone.” DeGrom is 16-4 with a 1.71 ERA in 32 career daytime starts.