PHILADELPHIA — The current ace of the Mets is a 6-6, 240-pound slab of muscle with blond locks that fall to his shoulders. At first glance, he appears to have sprung from the imagination of an overzealous video game programmer, one that has severely overestimated the capabilities of the human body.
But these days, most of what Noah Syndergaard does on a pitcher’s mound is unfathomable. Consider Monday night, a 5-2 victory over the Phillies in which the pitcher exerted his will with sheer physical force.
Syndergaard’s first six fastballs lit up the radar gun at 100, 100, 101, 101, 101 and 101 mph.