The New York Mets were not supposed to beat Jacob deGrom. In one inning on Friday, they met their worst-case scenario. It’s not because they lost. It’s how they did so abruptly.
Jonah Tong failed to get out of the first inning with 6 runs charged against him. Wild, ineffective, and looking lost, the team’s inability to view him as a Nolan McLean clone is troublesome. The team called him up as a late-season Hail Mary attempt to power through their starting pitching problems. Then came the Mets hitters who went down 1-2-3 on only 5 pitches from deGrom.