Syndergaard (10-7) allowed four runs (two earned) on seven hits and two walks with eight strikeouts over 5.2 innings in a win Tuesday over the Diamondbacks.
Syndergaard had to labor for this one, as he needed 106 pitches to get through five innings and change. He helped his own cause as well with a two-run home run off his starting counterpart Braden Shipley in the third inning. Syndergaard was utterly nasty at times (16 swinging strike in 106 pitches) as he managed to keep his team in the game until his lineup could put it away with six runs combined in the fifth and six innings. He has now struck out at least six batters in each of his past six starts.