This was as close to scoreboard watching as these 2018 Mets are going to get.
On the Citi Field mound was Jacob deGrom essentially documenting his season — which is to say, excelling while being undermined by his teammates, who were joined in incompetence this time by home-plate ump Tony Randazzo.
Meanwhile, on the out-of-town scoreboard above a left-field upper-deck that housed perhaps a half-dozen diehards was 27 PHI vs. 31 WSH. Translated: No. 27 Aaron Nola for the Phillies and No. 31 Max Scherzer for the Nationals.
Nola and Scherzer, despite being 245 miles away, were pretty much in inning-for-inning synchronicity Thursday afternoon with deGrom.