page_title: Noah Syndergaard
section_title: 2018
hierarchical_section_title: Noah Syndergaard / Professional career / New York Mets / 2018
caption_attribution_description: English: New York Mets starting pitcher Noah Syndergaard, on a rehab assignment with the Class A Short Season Brooklyn Cyclones, warming up prior to the 1st Inning of the Cyclones vs. Staten Island Yankees game at MCU Park on July 8, 2018.
context_page_description: Noah Seth Syndergaard, nicknamed Thor, is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. The Toronto Blue Jays selected him in the first round of the 2010 MLB draft and traded him to the Mets in 2012.
  Syndergaard made his MLB debut with the Mets on May 12, 2015, and served as their Opening Day starting pitcher in 2017 and 2018. He was named to the National League All-Star team in 2016, and has won the National League Player of the Week Award four times. Syndergaard underwent Tommy John surgery in late March 2020 and is expected to require 12 to 15 months for recovery and rehabilitation.
context_section_description: For the second straight season, Syndergaard was chosen to start on Opening Day. He pitched 6 innings, striking out 10 batters, becoming the second Met, after Pedro Martinez in 2005, to register 10 or more strikeouts on Opening Day. He was placed on the disabled list at the end of May and was activated on July 12, after missing the whole month of June with a strained ligament in his right index finger. On July 22, he was again placed on the disabled list after contracting hand, foot and mouth disease, and returned on August 1. He threw the first complete game of his career on September 2, striking out 11 batters in a 4–1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. He pitched on the last day of the season, throwing his first shutout in a complete game to defeat the Miami Marlins by a score of 1-0 at Citi Field. For the season, he was 13-4, with a 3.04 ERA. He led the major leagues in stolen bases given up, with 32 (as only three runners were caught stealing).
caption: Syndergaard pitching in a rehab assignment with the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2018
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