After Jacob deGrom starts a game for the Mets, many of us are usually convinced he’s not human. But as we can see from his last three starts, he is not an alien and goes through rough patches at work like the rest of us.
It’s not as if his last three starts were all bad. The results just haven’t been what we’ve gotten used to seeing from him. While the right-hander did walk away from his starts on September 13th and 18th with double-digit strikeouts, he allowed three runs in each. However, the five earned runs and four walks he allowed to the Athletics on Saturday were certainly the worst of all.