PHILADELPHIA — Jacob deGrom pitched his first complete game of the season on Saturday and lowered his major-league-leading earned run average to 1.71, weathering a rain delay and leading the Mets over the Philadelphia Phillies, 3-1.
DeGrom (8-7) kept bolstering his case for the National League Cy Young Award and allowed only an unearned run, the result of his own error. He walked none, struck out nine and threw his hardest pitch, a 99-mile-per-hour fastball, on the next to last of his 108 pitches.
The right-handed deGrom has thrown three complete games in 132 starts in the majors.