When you have your Cy Young winner on the mound at home against the expansion Marlins, when there is an organizationally-mandated urgency for you to wake up and start winning and be the team general manager Brodie Van Wagenen expects you to be, you better win the damn game.
There was no reason for this to be a fair fight. It was Secretariat versus an old gray nag. It was Mike Tyson versus Peter McNeeley. It was Mariano Rivera versus Tim Tebow.
It was Jacob deGrom versus the Marlins.
Cy Young versus … sigh.
Jacob deGrom versus young Sandy Alcantara.