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In his first start since May 9th, Jacob deGrom picked up right where he left off, dominating on the mound and collecting another hit along the way as well.

The Mets turned to deGrom for the second contest of a four-game series against Colorado, and he certainly didn’t look like a pitcher who missed the last two weeks. DeGrom had an eight-pitch perfect inning to start off the ballgame, and his fastball hit 101 MPH.

After giving up a solo home run to Ryan McMahon and a base hit to Brendan Rodgers with one out in the second inning, deGrom’s dominance took full effect as he retired eight-consecutive batters, five via strikeouts.

Flash forward to the end of the fifth inning, where deGrom struck out the side and finished his night with a grand total of nine strikeouts. All told, he gave up only one run on three hits and did not walk a single batter. He threw just 63 pitches, but to play it safe, deGrom was replaced by Miguel Castro in the top of the sixth inning.

“It felt good. Worked through a couple mechanical adjustments and felt like I was able to repeat my delivery tonight.” Jacob deGrom said.

In 190 career starts, deGrom has only allowed just one run or fewer 91 times. In other words, 47% of the time deGrom will allow one run or fewer. Since 2018, he is leading the MLB with his 1.98 ERA.

Since 1901, deGrom is one of two pitchers to have a seven-game span of 70+ strikeouts while allowing 20 or less hits in a single season. The other being Johan Santana in 2004. The Mets having a “deGrominate” deGrom back, will surely help out this team, as well as helping take pressure off of their impressive bullpen.

“In 40-plus years, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game where every fastball was over 95 miles an hour. That was, to say the least, impressive arm strength.” Rockies manager Bud Black on facing Jacob deGrom, Miguel Castro, Trevor May and Edwin Díaz.

If the Mets want to have any hope at remaining atop of the NL East, they’ll need to take advantage of every start  they get from their ace. Luckily they were able to get enough runs across to do just that last night.