LEADING OFF: deGrom, Scherzer get checked after early exits

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DR. DEGROM

No doubt every Mets fans shuddered when they heard the news that star pitcher Jacob deGrom was pulled from his latest start with an elbow injury.

But the two-time NL Cy Young Award winner says not to fret.

“My level of concern is not too high,” deGrom said Friday night.

DeGrom exited with right flexor tendinitis. He tore the ligament in his pitching elbow as a minor leaguer and needed Tommy John surgery in 2010 and said “this didn’t feel anything like that.”

“Whenever you say elbow anything for a pitcher, everyone gets nervous about that,” deGrom said. “But like I said, I do a lot of ligament tests on my own, and doing those, knowing what those feel like, it’s a totally different spot.”

DeGrom doesn’t plan to seek an MRI or other imaging, and he expects to proceed with his normal between-start routine and pitch next time his rotation spot comes up.

DeGrom pitched six shutout innings of one-hit ball and struck out 10 in a 3-2 win over San Diego. He’s thrown 22 straight scoreless innings and his 0.56 ERA is the lowest ever by a pitcher through 10 starts, just ahead of Juan Marichal’s 0.59 in 1966.

DeGrom also hit a two-run single and is batting .400 this season. He has five RBIs, and has allowed just four earned runs.

AILING ACE

The Nationals will see how Max Scherzer is feeling, a day after he exited a start against San Francisco in which he threw just 12 pitches.

The three-time Cy Young Award winner said he felt a tweak in his groin area. He said an MRI showed only inflammation.

“The good news is that it is not a muscle strain. I am really day-to-day. I am very confident this will be very mild," he said.

Scherzer got Giants leadoff hitter LaMonte Wade Jr....

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