Billed as Thor vs. Paul Bunyan, Noah Syndergaard squared off against Madison Bumgarner in the NL Wild Card game at CitiField last night. And what a game! Syndergaard and Bumgarner were the story. Syndergaard went 7 innings yielding only two hits on 106 pitches with 10 strikeouts and 3 walks. He did not yield a hit until the sixth inning.
Credit the patient Giants hitters, however. The hardest team to strikeout in the majors made Syndergaard work for his outs. He got his 10 Ks, but he also was at his pitch limit when the Mets took the bench for the bottom of the seventh.