“The guys did a really good job with deGrom tonight, I thought”, said Marlins’ manager Don Mattingly.
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Jason Hammel (9-5) allowed four hits and two runs over five-plus innings for his second victory since the All-Star break for NL Central-leading Chicago.
“I didn’t have time to think, just react”, Conforto said.
318 versus Saturday starter Jacob deGrom.TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, WPIX (New York), FSN Florida (Miami)PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets RH Jacob deGrom (6-4, 2.38 ERA) vs. Marlins RH Jose Fernandez (11-4, 2.53)DeGrom recorded his first career complete game in scintillating fashion on Sunday as he allowed just one hit and struck out seven in a 5-0 win over Philadelphia.
Adam Conley gave up two runs in six innings for Miami.
Conforto also singled and scored on Jose Reyes’ RBI triple to give the Mets a 1-0 lead in the third.
Fernandez improved to 26-1 with a 1.47 ERA over his career at Marlins Park after holding the Mets to just two runs over seven innings of work. He added an RBI single in the fourth, and singled in the first and sixth, hiking his average to. 241 after a prolonged slump. On two separate occasions, he retired Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton with a runner in scoring position, which Matz described as “the separator today”. “I felt pretty good”. He allowed two hits, two runs and two walks in his two-third of an inning. “There were a lot of balls in the middle of the plate, and a lot of balls up”.
DeGrom was throwing only in the low 90s in his final inning, several notches below his norm.
“The way he goes about his business and teaches all of us young guys, he’s a role model you want to follow”, Fernandez says. A run scored in the 9 and the tying runs on base – I know each game can’t be this flawless neat-and-tidy 1-2-3 inning, but boy it would be nice to have them.
DeGrom’s best moment came at the plate, where he doubled to lead off the third, his first extra-base hit since July 2015. With Miami trailing 2-1, Christian Yelich led off the inning with a single, and after Stanton took a pair of pitches to start his at-bat, he launched a moon shot off the scoreboard in left field.
Thanks in large part to Reyes – who had the first-ever Marlins hit in this stadium – the Mets (51-44) won the opening game of an important weekend series.
“I feel a little bit different and more focused”, Urena said when asked to compare his pitching to previous major-league stints.
Fowler went 3 for 4 with a walk and scored twice after being sidelined more than a month with a strained right hamstring.
Yelich had three of the Marlins’ 16 hits, and Martin Prado drove in two runs. “Battling him, fighting him, making him throw a bunch of pitches and being able to put a few runs on the board at the same time”. “So this was a good series for us to win”.
“It’s given us trouble”.
Florida’s Ichiro Suzuki struck out on three pitches in the eighth inning as a pinch-hitter and remained four hits shy of 3,000.
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Mets: 1B Lucas Duda (back) visited the team, took swings for the first time since his injury and said he hopes to be ready for a rehab assignment in a couple of weeks. The same could be said for Marlins right-hander Jose Urena (1-2), who lowered his ERA from 6.23 to 5.34. They’re also 6-1 in their last seven home games, 10-2 in their last 12 home games versus a left-handed starter and are 4-0 in their last four games versus a left-handed starter.
