The damndest thing was this: As good as Noah Syndergaard looked early in the game, both to the trained eye and the lay eye, he felt even better. He needed all of 11 pitches to retire the first four Braves he faced.
Hell: You were almost afraid to say as much, for fear someone would accuse you of being the jinx that ruined a perfect game.
And then …
“Baseball,” Syndergaard would say later, “is a funny game.”
Presumably he used “funny” as a euphemism, in favor of “torturous,” or “mysterious,” or just plain old “#@#%$#!