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1. The Amazing Bartolo

This one is a no-brainer. Not only did he notch his third win of the season, he also launched his first career home run in his 226th career at-bat. With that home run, Bartolo Colon became the oldest player in major league history to hit his first home run. On the mound, Bart was solid again, allowing just a three run home run off the bat of Jon Jay in 6 2/3 innings. He gave up six hits and one walk while striking out five. The scene after he hit the home run was straight out of a movie. With the 7 Line Army out in right field going ballistic, and the Mets bench disappearing into tunnel of the dugout, it was truly one of the more memorable moments in Mets history.

2. Strikeouts Back for Harvey

Coming into Sunday’s start, Matt Harvey had the least amount of strikeouts of his career for any six game stretch. However, things started to look up for Matt in that department, as he went on to strike out 10 batters, en route to his third win of the season. Harvey finished the day going six innings, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks. Harvey was much sharper than his last outing against the Braves. Hopefully Harvey can build off this start and continue to get back on track.

3. Cespedes Stays Hot

Yoenis Cespedes went deep again on Sunday afternoon to give him his 11th home run of the season, and his league leading 30th RBI. His home run on Sunday was his third of the series and his 10th home run in the last 18 games. Cespedes finished the series going 5 for 14 with 5 RBI. He is now just one home run behind Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado for the league lead in that department.

*Honorable Mention: Antonio Bastardo came in to the bottom of the eighth inning in quite the jam, as he was faced with the bases loaded and nobody out with a one run lead. With his control issues, I along with many other Mets fans could not have been thinking positive thoughts. Instead, Bastardo decided to strike out all three batters he faced in order to preserve the lead. It was by far his best moment as a Met so far this year.

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1. deGrom Suffers First Loss

In the first game of the series on Thursday night, Jacob deGrom went just five innings and allowed three runs on eight hits and struck out just two batters. It was his first loss of the year, and deGrom contributed some of it to his mechanics. He noted that last year his elbow was above his shoulder, whereas this year it’s not even close to being above it. The good news is that it’s one start and Jacob clearly has an idea of what is wrong. Both he and pitching coach Dan Warthen should have no issues on fixing this. With the loss, deGrom is now 3-1 with a 1.99 ERA on the year.

2. Wasted Start

Noah Syndergaard didn’t have his best on Friday night, but he pitched well enough yet again to get the win. Instead, Syndergaard suffered his second straight loss, putting him at 2-2 on the year with an ERA of 2.58. He allowed just two runs on six hits in six innings pitched, while striking out five batters. All the Mets offense could offer in return was three hits, and just one against Padres starter Drew Pomeranz.

3. d’Arnaud Takes Step Back

In Travis d’Arnaud‘s first attempt at throwing since he was placed on the disabled list back on April 25th, the Mets received more bad news. d’Arnaud complained of shoulder discomfort again and had to stop. At some point you have to start to feel for him a little bit. For whatever reason, he has been plagued with injuries throughout the course of his very young career. Hopefully this is just a minor setback, and he’ll return sooner rather than later, but this is certainly discouraging news.