The past few days have been pretty insane if you’re a New York sports fan. The Rangers dismantled the Tampa Bay Lightning last night to force a game 7 in an already crazy Eastern Conference Finals. The Yankees finished off their sweep of a very good Kansas City Royals team this afternoon. But today we pay our respects to the Thunder God himself, Noah Syndergaard. Syndergaard had another dominating performance of the Philadelphia Phillies this afternoon at Citi Field. He finished with an impressive line of 7.1 IP, 6 H, 0 R, 6 K, lowering is ERA on the season to 2.55. Thor overpowered batters with 98 MPH heat and devastating breaking balls. Phillies’ hitters never stood a chance. It was like Randy Johnson in his prime facing off against high school JV batters. Just straight up unfair.

Oh, and by the way, the man can hit too. Syndergaard went 3 for 3 today at the plate including an absolute BOMB to dead center field. Any man that can hit a baseball 430 feet is impressive. But a pitcher?! Now that just doesn’t make any sense. Pitchers are supposed to step up to the plate, take three awkward hacks, and have a seat back on the bench. If they’re lucky they will come up with runners on the bases and all they will have to do is lay down a sacrifice bunt. And if you’re REALLY lucky, you’re Bartolo Colon. Any time he steps into the batter’s box its A+ entertainment regardless of what he does (most likely strikes out looking like a man who has never seen a baseball before in his life). Not Syndergaard though. Not Thor, the God of Thunder. He steps up to the plate with Mjolnir on his shoulder ready to unleash hell on the baseball. Terry Collins might as well bat him fourth in the lineup because he hits better than 90% of the rest of the team. Even though the Mets offense sucks ass, at least they have one of the most exciting young pitching rotations in the majors. Thank you Harvey, DeGrom, and Sydergaard for giving us hope.

We have lift off!

-Kev