Mets place Ace Syndergaard on DL

The New York Mets placed ace right-hander Noah Syndergaard on the 10-day disabled list on Monday after a MRI revealed a partial tear of his right lat muscle.

The Mets said there is no timetable for Syndergaard’s return.

Syndergaard left his start Sunday against Washington in pain, a development that came only a couple days after he said he felt fine and refused a MRI.

Syndergaard (1-2) allowed five runs on five hits in the first inning of a 23-5 loss to the Nationals. He grimaced after throwing a secondinning strike to Bryce Harper and reached for his right armpit.

The Mets’ immediate concern was a strained lat. The MRI at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery revealed the partial tear.

The loss of Syndergaard comes as the Mets, in last place in the NL East, already are without star slugger Yoenis Cespedes, who was placed on the disabled list Friday with a strained left hamstring.

Meanwhile, first baseman Lucas Duda, out with a hyperextended left elbow, had a setback during his minor league rehab assignment and won’t be activated on Monday when eligible to come off the 10day DL. Infielder Wilmer Flores (right knee infection) also is out.

Syndergaard was a late scratch from a scheduled outing last Thursday in New York against Atlanta due to biceps and shoulder discomfort in his pitching arm.

Golf CAMERON SMITH WINS

FIRST PGA» Cameron Smith stood on the edge of the 18th green, wiping away tears at a ceremony complete with alligator skin championship belts and a silver chalice.

The 23-year-old Australian, the youngest and least accomplished player left on the course, had been painstakingly close to his first PGA Tour victory from the final hole of regulation at the Zurich Classic on Sunday night through the fourth playoff hole Monday.

He kept his emotions in check long enough to stick a 58-yard lob wedge within 3 feet of the pin on the fourth playoff hole the par-5 18th and sink his birdie putt.

The sequence lifted him and teammate Jonas Blixt of Sweden to the first championship under the Zurich Classic’s new team format. And it finally vanquished the feisty team of South Carolina residents Kevin Kisner and Scott Brown.

Kisner and Brown had rallied with a final round of 12-under 60 on Sunday, capped by a nearly 95-foot chip-in for eagle by Kisner as darkness fell Sunday night at TPC Louisiana.

“It was pretty cool to knock the putt in for the win,” said Smith, who along with Blixt had missed potential winning putts from 9 to 10 feet on earlier playoff holes. “I guess it would have felt a little bit different if Jonas had done it for my first win.

“To have a putt to win on the PGA Tour when you’ve been working toward it your whole life is a completely different feeling,” Smith added. “It felt like the longest (3 ½foot) putt I’ve ever hit.”

MLB BLUE JAYS TOP YANKEES»

Ryan Goins hit a tworun sacrifice fly, the first in Toronto’s 40-year history, to go along with a two-run homer that led Marco Estrada and the Blue Jays over the New York Yankees 7-1 Monday night for their seasonhigh third straight win.

The crowd of 25,566 was the smallest for a Yankees home game since Sept. 20, 2004, against Toronto in a game moved to accommodate a makeup date. The current Yankee Stadium opened in 2009.