As Noah Syndergaard chased a perfect game under threatening skies Thursday night, WFAN's Gregg Giannotti couldn't help but feel anxiety for Mets manager Mickey Callaway.
"Because Noah Syndergaard is pitching just as well as we have seen him pitch against a great baseball team, and you think perfect game and some of this crap that he (Callaway) has gone through with taking guys out too early and everything else, and there's no way, no matter what the situation was, that after a big rain delay where the tarp is on the field and the thunderstorm rolls through -- he can't come back. He cannot come back," Giannotti said on Friday's "Boomer and Gio" show.
Thor still had a perfect game going against the Indians with one out in the top of the sixth inning. Tyler Naquin then singled to center field, and two batters later, Francisco Lindor singled, too. Syndergaard got out of the inning with the shutout still intact. He did not return after the first of two rain delays was called in the bottom of the sixth.
"It just would've sucked so bad if that was the reason why there was no perfect game for Noah Syndergaard," Gio said of Syndergaard's weather-induced exit. "That would've been just brutal to deal with. So the hit got out of the way, and that's what I felt good about."
The Mets went on to win the rain-shortened, eight-inning game 2-0, their fifth straight victory. Syndergaard (9-6) allowed just the two hits, struck out five batters and walked no one.
To listen to the open of Friday's "Boomer and Gio" show, with Jerry Recco filling in for Boomer Esiason, click on the audio player above.
