Pomeranz, Jay shine as Padres top Mets

SAN DIEGO — The deeper Drew Pomeranz descends into the National League’s gauntlet of aces, the better he seems to perform.

Pomeranz, who had opposed Vince Velasquez, Madison Bumgarner and Clayton Kershaw in three of his previous four starts, may have lasted only five scoreless innings Friday at Petco Park. But it was enough to outpitch Noah Syndergaard in a 2-0 Padres victory over the Mets.

Allowing merely one hit in five innings, Pomeranz skated around leadoff walks in the first and third innings, and escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the fourth. He needed 98 pitches to do so, but the Padres’ bullpen took it from there with four additional scoreless innings.

“I wasn’t as effective as I would have liked to be,” Pomeranz said. “I was battling out there in a lot of bad counts but was able to keep them from scoring runs. I would have like to stay in the game longer, but I think overall I did pretty good on a day where I really didn’t have my best stuff out there.”

The Padres did not do a terrible amount more against Syndergaard, plating runs on a Matt Kemp sacrifice fly in the first inning and a Jon Jay RBI single in the fifth. It was all they needed. The Padres also swiped two bases in three tries off Syndergaard, one of them directly leading to Jay’s hit. More >

“I’d like to go out there and have a goal to put up zeroes,” Syndergaard said. “Unfortunately, it’s not always like that. So tomorrow’s a new day. I’ll work on some things and get ready to throw the ball in another five days.”

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