CHICAGO — While you couldn’t find a much odder couple than Steven Matz, tall, lefty and reserved, and Marcus Stroman, diminutive, righty and talkative, their shared history ensures that they’ll always be mentioned as a pair. After all, as Matz recalled Tuesday, in his first year of kid-pitch Little League at age 8, he gave up his first home run to none other than Stroman.
Stretch that connection to being teammates on their hometown major league club, thanks to the Mets’ stunning acquisition of Stroman from the Blue Jays on Sunday, and if this pairing goes as the Mets hope, they’ll challenge Hamptonites Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick as Suffolk County’s best-known duo.