deGrom brilliant again as dominant run continues

Circumstances had grown unfathomable enough for Jacob deGrom that after the National League Cy Young Award candidate’s last start, teammate Todd Frazier approached him to apologize for the Mets’ offensive woes. Over a 10-start stretch, deGrom had posted a 0.87 ERA. The Mets were 2-8 in those games. So it was a completely foreign feeling when, in the seventh inning of a 12-2 blowout over the Rockies on Monday, deGrom joked that he almost didn’t want to beat out a fielder’s choice because he didn’t feel like running the bases. Already with six runs on the board at that time, the Mets had given deGrom as much support as in his previous five starts combined. They went on to add six more to seal up deGrom’s first win in exactly one month.