This is how baseball life should be for Jacob deGrom. The wins should come fast and furious.
Just as the runs finally did for the Mets on a hot Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field.
DeGrom, the best pitcher in the majors, is putting a lock on the NL Cy Young Award without the Ws. He pitched six shutout innings and the Mets, for a change, scored runs for deGrom in an 8-0 victory over the Reds, making deGrom’s life so much easier.
The right-hander improved to 6-7. His shrink-wrap ERA dropped to 1.77, the best in the majors.