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Jacob deGrom will start for the Mets on Sunday

Jacob deGrom will return to the mound in the team’s series finale with the Diamondbacks at Citi Field on Sunday afternoon, per Mets general manager Zack Scott during a press conference this afternoon. deGrom missed a start earlier in the week after feeling some soreness in his right side, but an MRI revealed that he merely had inflammation of his right lat.

Through five starts, deGrom is off to an outstanding start, somehow looking even better than he has before. In 35.0 innings, he has a 0.51 ERA with 15.17 strikeouts and 1.