Mets don’t have enough — even with Noah Syndergaard in bullpen

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NEW YORK — It’s not a normal night at Citi Field when Noah Syndergaard comes out of the New York Mets’ bullpen. It’s not a normal night when the Mets have the lead and Addison Reed and Jeurys Familia don’t pitch the eighth and the ninth.

All of Mets manager Terry Collins’ pitching decisions Tuesday made perfect sense, but the result wasn’t normal, either.

The Mets lost, 6-4, to the Chicago White Sox, the first time in 29 chances this season they’ve failed to win a game they led after seven innings. They lost this one because on a night when the bullpen had Syndergaard but not Familia, the Mets didn’t have enough to shut the game down.

Noah Syndergaard shined in pitching out of the bullpen on Tuesday night, striking out two in a scoreless seventh inning. Al Bello/Getty Images

With Syndergaard the choice to pitch the seventh in his bullpen cameo, and with Reed held back to pitch the ninth because Familia had thrown 67 pitches in the past four days, Hansel Robles appeared as the fill-in setup man. The result, a three-run inning that included Tyler Saladino’s two-run go-ahead home run, served as a reminder of how good Reed has …

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