No matter how bad it got — and it got ugly — the Mets never lost trust in David Peterson. On Monday night against the winningest team in the NL Central, he rewarded that trust with one of his best performances of the year.
Peterson pitched six scoreless innings in an outing for the first time in his young career en route to a 5-2 Mets’ win over the Cubs at Citi Field. Monday marked his second career start with no more than one hit allowed, all the more remarkable because it came against a Cubs team with the fourth-best slugging percentage (.