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- Updated: August 22, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — Terry Collins asked Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen to check on Noah Syndergaard prior to the start of the ninth inning in Sunday’s 2-0 win over the Giants. Collins, fully intending to send Syndergaard back to the mound to finish off one of his strongest starts of the season, received a surprising update on his ace.
Syndergaard was tiring.
“I thought it would be the best decision to hand it over to the best closer in the game,” Syndergaard said, “get a win, get back on the bus and head to St. Louis.”
And so they did, turning to Jeurys Familia for his 41st save of the year. That plan, much like everything else Syndergaard did Sunday, was rock solid, as Familia preserved the shutout with relative ease to seal a series split.
“I’ll tell you what, though, he showed me something,” Mets manager Terry Collins said of Syndergaard. “He came off and said, ‘It’s too late in the year to be a hero. I’m getting a little tired.’ A lot of guys wouldn’t have said that. They would’ve taken it upon themselves. That’s what we wanted to hear.”
Hero? Maybe not. But Syndergaard pitched like …
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