Syndergaard joined Nolan Ryan, Jose Fernandez and Clayton Kershaw (three in a row) as the only pitchers since 1913 to have consecutive double-digit strikeout games without allowing a walk or an earned run.
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Noah Syndergaard dominated the Brewers for seven innings, striking out 11.
Colon and Harvey are scheduled to pitch the first two games of a three-game series against the Nationals in Washington, D.C., that begins Monday night.
NEW YORK-Of all the young aces in the New York Mets’ rotation, nobody has been more dominant than Noah Syndergaard.
Jimmy Nelson (4-3, 3.07 ERA) will pitch for Milwaukee in their series opener at Turner Field against Atlanta’s Julio Teheran (1-4, 2.73 ERA) on Tuesday night.
“I think during my rough stretch, my swings were OK, but my decisions weren’t good”, Conforto said. Dwight Gooden (September 1984) is the only other Mets pitcher to reach double digits in strikeouts with no walks in back-to-back games.
That keeps the Rockies 3.5 games back from the Giants in the NL West, while the Los Angeles Dodgers are four games back after losing 3-2 in 11 innings to the San Diego Padres.
Mariners starter Wade Miley got roughed up in the first inning, allowing three runs and three hits including a two-run double by Brandon Phillips as the Reds went ahead 3-0.
In Mets history, he is ranks fifth with 14 starts of one run or less through his first 32 career starts, behind Harvey (18), Dwight Gooden (16), Jon Niese (16), and Jacob deGrom (15).
“Only pitch I’d like to have back is the Conforto home run”, Anderson said.
The play proved costly because after Anderson struck out Neil Walker, Asdrubal Cabrera got enough of a 3-2 curveball to line it to right for a two-run single. NOTES: Mets 1B Lucas Duda (lower back) sat out for the second straight day and for the fourth time in the last six games.
The Brewers had a bit of a rally in the seventh, when Hernan Perez and Alex Presley put runners on the corners with no outs thanks to a wild pitch.
That inning fizzled after Presley attempted to move to second when a pitch got away from catcher Rene Rivera, who recovered in time to throw him out. He then struck out Flores and got Aaron Hill to ground out to get out of the inning. He walked one. Jeremy Jeffress pitched the eighth to get in an inning, allowing two hits but no runs. Only one of those games – a 5-3 win over the Chicago Cubs on Thursday – was decided by more than one run. This kid’s gotta step up and give us an outing, and he did.
“(Pitching coach) Dan (Warthen) and I had talked before the game.
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Collins said of Syndergaard lacking command of his fastball early int he game and working around it, “I thought, one of the things we said earlier, was that he wasn’t getting his slider over, and when he started to get it over, it changed the whole game. I just wasn’t able to get to it”. “I took a look at it, and I was getting in my own way by swinging at pitches out of the zone”. That comes with maturity and experience. You feel like victory gets snatched for you.
