CHICAGO — Jacob deGrom handed one other massive take a look at Thursday. Now, his first major-league begin in over a yr might be simply round 10 days away.
DeGrom allowed two hits, one run (unearned), and walked one batter whereas putting out 4 in a four-inning, 42-pitch outing for Triple-A Syracuse on Thursday evening.
The Mets ace was tremendous environment friendly, needing simply 42 pitches to finish his third rehab task, although he was scheduled to go as much as 50. He dialed his fastball as much as 100 mph on Thursday, one to 2 ticks down from the excessive velocity he placed on show throughout his final two rehab outings.
“Feel good,” deGrom informed reporters afterwards, per SNY. “I felt a little bit out of whack the first couple of innings, then tried to make a little bit of an adjustment. I wasn’t locating my fastball quite like I wanted to early on. But the last couple of innings, I felt a lot better.”
DeGrom additionally used his lethal slider lots, pitching to catcher Francisco Alvarez. The Mets No. 1 prospect additionally caught Max Scherzer at Double-A Binghamton a few weeks in the past, so it’s been fairly the chance for Alvarez to catch a pair of multi-Cy Young winners within the Mets group. Afterwards, Alvarez acquired the seal of approval from deGrom, very similar to he did from Scherzer.
The subsequent step for deGrom, for now, is to pitch in a dwell/simulated recreation at Port St. Lucie or elsewhere through the All-Star break. That must be his remaining tune-up earlier than he’s ramped up and cleared to rejoin the Mets rotation. It’s doable deGrom will be activated as quickly because the Mets-Padres collection at Citi Field from July 22-24.
DeGrom supplied a mirrored image of his rehab course of following his profitable rehab begin on Thursday.
“This one, it was pretty thorough reaching these different thresholds of throwing before I even stepped on the mound,” deGrom mentioned. “Everything was on a radar gun as far as like each day was, you’re going to throw this hard, no harder than that. It was very thorough and step-by-step. I had to really trust the process and try not to do too much because like I said, if I [got injured] again, then I was out for the rest of this year.”
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