It is perhaps the most Mets thing ever to have Jacob deGrom on the mound, extending his season-ending shutout streak to 23 innings during another routinely brilliant start while his team was in the midst of being mathematically eliminated from playoff consideration.
It’s all over, folks, and was essentially over before the reigning Cy Young Award winner threw his first pitch against the Marlins in Queens, the scoreboard revealing that the Brewers — with a magic number of one to eradicate the Mets — had scored six runs in the top of the first inning in Cincinnati.