 kept boosting his NL Cy Young Award credentials 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 mph fastball, on the next-to-last of his 108 pitches.DeGrom has thrown three complete games in 132 starts in the majors. He tossed a one-hitter at Citizens Bank Park on July 17, 2016, in a 5-0 win over the Phillies.It appeared that deGrom's day might be cut short due to a 41-minute rain delay that began in the middle of the fourth. But the Mets right-hander came back after the stoppage as strong as before it.DeGrom was so eager to resume that he walked toward the Philadelphia dugout to get a ball to warm up. He began to get loose on the mound before the umpires returned and prior to the Phillies' grounds crew raking the field. He was forced to wait several minutes before throwing his final warmup toss as the field was being groomed.But it didn't bother deGrom.He allowed a leadoff single to Rhys Hoskins in the fourth and then retired nine of 10 before the seventh when Philadelphia got its lone run against the Mets ace.DeGrom pulled within two starts of Dwight Gooden's club record with his 22nd consecutive start allowing three runs or less. He also eclipsed 200 strikeouts, finishing with 204 for the season. The two-time All-Star entered second in the NL and sixth in the majors in Ks.Hoskins and Maikel Franco each doubled among their two hits for the Phillies, who began the day a half-game behind Atlanta in the NL East and leading the NL wild-card race.Jake Arrieta (9-8) allowed one run on four hits with six strikeouts and no walks in six strong innings.The Mets went ahead in the fourth when Jeff McNeil scored from third on Wilmer Flores' single that caromed off the third-base bag and into left field.New York took a 3-0 lead in the seventh with a pair of runs off Luis Garcia. Devin Mesoraco homered and Amed Rosario scored on McNeil's first career triple.The Phillies scored their lone run off deGrom in the seventh after Nick Williams and Franco hit consecutive one-out singles. Williams scored when deGrom couldn't handle Rosario's throw from short on a potential double-play on Odubel Herrera's groundball. But the Mets got out of the inning when deGrom threw to first, where second baseman McNeil tagged out Herrera, who couldn't get back to the bag after making a move toward second base.TRAINER'S ROOMMets: OF Jay Bruce (sore right hip), on the DL since June 18, went 0 for 3 in a rehab outing with Single-A St. Lucie on Friday night.Phillies: RHP Jerad Eickhoff is scheduled to throw 75 pitches in a rehab outing with Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Sunday. Eickhoff has been out all season with a right lat strain.UP NEXTThe teams wrap up their five-game series on Sunday night at Bowman Field in Williamsport as part of the Little League Classic. Mets LHP Jason Vargas (2-8, 8.10) opposes Phillies RHP Nick Pivetta (7-9, 4.37). Vargas has struggled but had success against the Phillies the last time he faced them in 2011 with Seattle, pitching a three-hit shutout.)
StubHubStubHubMets' deGrom faces Phillies, seeks first three-game win streak 4h ago• 2 min read Jacob deGrom will try to accomplish something Saturday that he has not yet done in his exceptional 2018 season: pick up his third win in a row.DeGrom and the New York Mets face Jake Arrieta and the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. It's the fourth of a five-game series that will wrap up with the 2018 MLB Little League Classic on Sunday night in Williamsport, Pa.DeGrom (7-7, 1.81 ERA), a Cy Young hopeful, has the best ERA in the major leagues, and the right-hander was fifth in WHIP (0.969) and sixth in strikeouts (195) as of Friday. Still, because of a lack of run support, the Mets are 10-14 in his 24 starts this season.They have backed up their ace lately, however. DeGrom has wins in his last two starts with the Mets, scoring eight runs in both games. He has allowed just two earned runs in 12 2/3 innings during that span while getting 22 strikeouts. He struck out 12 batters -- one short of his season high -- against the New York Yankees last Monday.Afterward, he was not shy about saying he'd like to fill his trophy case this season."I've said before that I want to win a Cy Young," deGrom, 30, told MLB.com after the start. "I think that's what every starting pitcher, or pitcher in general, wants to win as a personal goal. I'd be lying if I said I didn't think about it." DeGrom threw eight scoreless innings against the Phillies in his most recent start against them on July 11. He is 6-1 with a 2.45 ERA in 13 career starts against Philadelphia.DeGrom will be going against the 2015 National League Cy Young Award winner. Arrieta is trying to help the Phillies make the playoffs in his first season with the club.Arrieta has a 2.98 ERA since the start of July, and nine of the 16 earned runs he has allowed in his last eight starts came in two games against the San Diego Padres.The right-hander gave up five runs and eight hits in five innings last Sunday in San Diego."I had an opportunity to get out of a couple situations with a different result. It just didn't go that way," Arrieta told MLB.com after the game. "It was a weird one. The first three innings were strange. Couldn't necessarily find it when I needed to." Arrieta is 2-2 with a 1.99 ERA and 0.994 WHIP in eight career starts against the Mets.Arrieta will try to get the Phillies their 69th win of the season. The Phillies (68-54) lost the first game of the series by 20 runs, but they've won the last two and improved to 41-20 at home.Asdrubal Cabrera, who was traded to the Phillies from the Mets last month, hit an RBI double in Philadelphia's 4-2 win Friday night. Cabrera is batting .273 with six extra-base hits and eight RBIs in his last 12 games.
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