June
The month of June encapsulated deGrom’s season. He made six starts, going 1-4 with one no-decision despite allowing just 13 runs, 11 of them earned. HThe New York Mets gave him 19 runs of support, but 12 of those came in his only victory, a 12-2 decision over Colorado June 18.
The Red Sox, however, were not scheduled on June 18, so that game drops out of our re-creation. Here’s what deGrom’s June record would have looked like had he pitched his other five starts exactly the same for Boston as he did for the Mets:
Date Opp. IP Score at exit Pen allows Final Decision Record
Jun 2 Hou 7 5-0 1 5-1 W 7-0
Jun 8 CWS 8 0-3 0 0-3 L 7-1
Jun 13 Bal 7 5-1 0 5-1 W 8-1
Jun 23 Sea 6 0-3 0 2-3 L 8-2
Jun 30 NYY 6 7-0 0 11-0 W 9-2
The White Sox did beat Boston on June 8, Dylan Covey (with pen help) out-pitching Chris Sale 1-0. DeGrom allowed the Yankees three runs in a 4-1 defeat that day.
His second defeat would have come at the hands of the Mariners June 23. On that day, Mike Leake shut them out for eight innings, the Sox only breaking through for two runs against Edwin Diaz in the ninth. That wasn’t good enough to avoid a 7-2 loss in the real world, and it also wouldn’t have been good enough had deGrom been on the mound, given that he allowed three runs across six innings that night against the Dodgers.