The Latest Breaking News from Jacob deGrom

NEW YORK — With 53 games and more than eight weeks to go, the NL East is far from won, the annals of baseball history pockmarked enough by comebacks and collapses and other September surprises that, well, as one long-ago Mets manager said, it ain’t over till it’s over.

The 26-year-old right-hander continued his sensational season with another stingy performance Friday.

WASHINGTON — The Mets’ 7-3 win over the Nationals on Monday mattered as much as any other game, and it came with the fun context of Max Scherzer facing (and beating) his former team in his former home for just the second time. But really it was just a warm-up…

MIAMI — It’s official. Jacob deGrom is going to pitch in a major league game.

After more than a year of being sidelined with injuries, the Mets ace will take the mound against the Nationals next week.

By this time next week, it will all be over. We’ll know which teams acquired starting pitchers Luis Castillo, José Quintana and Noah Syndergaard. We’ll see where the Cubs sent All-Star catcher Willson Contreras and closer David Robertson, and if they dealt All-Star outfielder Ian Happ. ...

Plus, the “homework clause” in Kyler Murray’s contract is no more

When he’s not bullying opposing hitters, he’s known to set his sights on his own clubhouse. The key question is whether he can push around his own body.

NEW YORK — On Wednesday, Jacob deGrom made his fourth minor league rehab start of the year.