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| PC - Ed Delany |
When two
Cy Young Award winners go against each other in a season opener the fans get
extra fired up for a good pitching duel.
Jacob deGrom needless to say was the
best pitcher in the National League in 2018. His amazing statistics enabled him
to win the National League Cy Young Award. He received 29 out of the 30
first-place votes. He gave up no more than three runs in his last twenty-nine
starts which was a single-season record. He finished the season with a 10-9
record, a 1.70 ERA, 32 games started, 217 innings pitched, 269 strikeouts,
allowing 10 home runs and 46 walks.
The one vote that did not go to deGrom went
to Max Scherzer who finished the season 18-7 with a 2.53 earned run average.
Scherzer had won the Cy Young Award the previous two seasons. The two pitchers
faced off in the season opener for both the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals.
deGrom,
picked up right where he left off from last season with a well-pitched game by defeating
Max Scherzer 2-0 at Nationals park.
deGrom said that he was really nervous and there was some pressure on him. He threw six scoreless innings with ten
strikeouts. Scherzer went seven and two-thirds innings, struck out 12 and gave
up two earned runs.
Robinson Cano hit a home run to
the opposite field over the left-center-field wall and drove in a run with an
RBI single to the opposite field in the eighth inning. Also, he turned in a
fine double play in the third inning when Anthony Rendon’s grounder rolled
slowly and Jeff McNeil fielded it and threw to Cano, but Victor Robles made a
base running mistake after Cano threw to home plate which made Robles freeze
and became a little confused which led to a rundown and the out.
Edwin Diaz
retired the side in order in the ninth for his first save.
After a
Met teammate voiced his opinion about the deGrom extension wondering why the
talks have taken so long ,suggesting that the team quit all of the fuss and just
pay the pitcher plus stating he deserves whatever amount he is worth last week deGrom
reached an agreement on a five-year, $137.5 million contract extension. deGrom
showed everyone that he is worth the amount of the contract extension that he
signed with his win over the Nationals.
3 comments:
If they were the same age, it would be very hard to pick between Scherzer and deGrom.
I'd lean towards deGrom for one reason: Max allowed 103 homers the past 4 years - he seems to be more homer prone than Jake. Homers allowed lose games.
Both are great. Jake s younger, so I am glad we have him, if we can only have one of them.
Give me 30 more Jake starts like that one, please!
As I'd said myself earlier, 2 runs must have felt like 20 to Jake given what he was provided during his starts in 2018.
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