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- Updated: September 25, 2016
NEW YORK — For months now, the Mets have patched their rotation with spare parts and bubble gum. And it’s worked. New York has played large swaths of the season’s second half without Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom and Steven Matz, vaulting back into the postseason race because young pitchers Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman have been better than expected.
When the Mets learned that Noah Syndergaard would not be able to pitch on Saturday due to a case of strep throat, they simply sighed, nodded and prepared to cobble together another nine innings — fresh off using a franchise-record 16 pitchers in their previous two games. It finally caught up to them; the Phillies blasted spot starter Sean Gilmartin for five runs and Rafael Montero for another five in a 10-8 loss at Citi Field, thrusting the Mets into a hole so deep that even one of their most spirited rallies of the season could not save them.
But that didn’t stop the Mets from trying in a two-run loss that could have been so much worse. When manager Terry Collins walked into Citi Field’s press conference room late Saturday …
