NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom was pulled from a do-it-all gem with right flexor tendinitis, a troubling diagnosis for the New York Mets that clouded a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.

DeGrom (6-2) faced the minimum over six innings and ripped a two-run single, giving him five RBIs this season — compared to four earned runs allowed. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner’s 0.56 ERA is the lowest ever by a pitcher through 10 starts, just ahead of Juan Marichal’s 0.59 in 1966.

DeGrom left after 80 pitches and extending his scoreless streak to 22 innings, shaking hands with manager Luis Rojas in the dugout after getting through the sixth. New York announced his injury two innings later.

Facing San Diego and star slugger Fernando Tatis Jr. for the second time in six days, deGrom had a no-hit bid until Wil Myers beat the shift with a weak grounder in the fifth. Myers was caught stealing by catcher James McCann a few pitches later.

He was the only runner to reach against deGrom, who struck out 10 despite the abbreviated outing. New York has been limiting his workload since an injured list stint in May with right side tightness. The 32-year-old deGrom had Tommy John surgery as a minor leaguer in 2010.

CUBS 8, CARDINALS 5: Joc Pederson homered and drove in three runs, Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras went deep and Chicago won at Wrigley Field, which was allowed 100% capacity for the first time since 2019.

They fell behind 5-1, then treated a crowd of 35,112 to a comeback win over their NL Central rivals.

Pederson gave the Cubs a 7-5 lead in the seventh with a two-run double off the wall in right-center against Génesis Cabrera (1-2). He also singled leading off the first and homered in his second straight game when he drove one to the center-field basket against against Johan Oviedo in the fourth.

Rizzo tied it at 5-all in the sixth with his drive to right against Daniel Ponce de Leon. It came on the 14th pitch of the at-bat, the longest by a Cub to end in a homer since at least 1988, and the fans erupted in delight.

Contreras added a solo homer in the eighth.

MARLINS 4, BRAVES 3: Jazz Chisholm’s two-out, two-run single in the fourth inning put Miami ahead to stay, and they beat visiting Atlanta for the fourth time in five meetings this year.

Sandy Alcantara (4-5) allowed two runs in six innings. Yimi García, the Marlins’ fifth pitcher, worked around a leadoff single and a two-out walk in the ninth, striking out Austin Riley to end the game for his 11th save in 14 chances.

REDS 11, ROCKIES 5: Cincinnati hit five homers over the first five innings, including a three-run blast by Joey Votto, and extended Colorado’s road woes.

Nick Castellanos, Scott Heineman, Kyle Farmer and Tyler Stephenson also went deep against Kyle Freeland (0-2), who set a career high for home runs allowed in a game. The Reds fell one short of matching their single-game season high for homers.

GIANTS 1, NATIONALS 0: Washington ace Max Scherzer left after just 12 pitches because of an apparent lower body injury, Buster Posey homered and San Francisco won on the road as Anthony DeSclafani threw a career-best two-hitter.

Giants left fielder Michael Tauchman made a leaping catch to rob a home run for the second time in less than a month.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

RAYS 4, ORIOLES 2: Ryan Yarbrough followed up a rare Tampa Bay complete game with six solid innings and the Rays became the first team to reach 40 wins this season, beating visiting Baltimore.

Yarbrough (4-3), the first Rays’ pitcher to go the distance in five years in his previous start, gave up two unearned runs and three hits.

Brandon Lowe homered for the Rays, who are 21-5 since May 13.

INDIANS 7, MARINERS 0: Aaron Civale gave up a single to start the game before dominating Seattle’s light-hitting lineup for eight innings, leading Cleveland to a win in front of the largest crowd at Progressive Field since 2019.

Civale (9-2) allowed J.P. Crawford’s leadoff hit – a grounder that just got past second baseman César Hernández’s glove – and nothing else to become the first AL pitcher with nine wins.

The right-hander struck out a career-high 11 and retired 22 in a row after loading the bases in the first. Blake Parker worked the ninth to complete the two-hitter.

The series opener was the first game in which capacity attendance was allowed at Progressive Field since before the COVID-19 pandemic, and 22,970 fans came out for the Mariners, $1 hot dogs and fireworks on “Opening Day 2.0.”

NOTES

CUBS: The Cubs are one of only eight MLB teams not to have reached the 85% threshold for fully vaccinated tier-one personnel, and first baseman Anthony Rizzo said in a radio interview that he decided not to get vaccinated, becoming the first Cubs player to admit it publicly.

Rizzo, who quickly became a trending topic on Twitter, was unavailable for comment before Friday’s game. A cancer survivor, Rizzo did not give a reason for his decision. Cubs President Jed Hoyer declined to talk about Rizzo’s status, saying he didn’t “feel comfortable talking about anyone’s individual choices” on the vaccine.

Manager David Ross said in San Diego he hoped fans would not judge players’ decisions after a fan yelled “get vaxxed” to one player during a recent Cubs game in San Francisco. But Rizzo already was being criticized on the internet for not getting the vaccine.

Hoyer said he hoped fans wouldn’t treat Cubs players who were not vaccinated any differently than before.

DIAMONDBACKS: General Manager Mike Hazen is taking a leave of absence from the team while his wife Nicole is dealing with brain cancer.

Hazen said that he will continue to consult regularly with assistant general manager Amiel Sawdaye, who will take over day-to-day baseball operations.

Hazen’s wife Nicole has been battling a brain tumor for more than a year. The couple has four sons.

MARINERS: Reliever Kendall Graveman is back with the team after being on the injured list following a COVID-19 scare.

The 30-year-old right-hander, who had been out since May 23, was activated before the Mariners opened a three-game series against the Indians.

Graveman spent two weeks quarantined in San Diego. Before he was sidelined, he had been one of the league’s top relievers. He has five saves and has not allowed a run in 16 2/3 innings over 14 appearances.

METS: Acting General Manager Zack Scott refuted New York star Pete Alonso’s charge that Major League Baseball has been manipulating baseballs to hurt potential free agents, saying changes to the ball would have “no influence on how players are valued or paid.”

Asked on Wednesday about the simmering debate over pitchers’ use of foreign substances, Alonso claimed MLB intentionally juiced baseballs before star pitchers like Gerrit Cole hit the open market, then deadened the ball this season with a talented group of hitters ready to become free agents.

“I didn’t know Pete was a conspiracy theorist,” Scott said with a laugh Friday before New York opened a series against San Diego.

The league did not comment on Alonso’s charge.

BREWERS: Third baseman Travis Shaw likely won’t return until August after dislocating his left shoulder diving for a ground ball this week.

Shaw got hurt Wednesday at Cincinnati and was placed on the injured list the next day. Brewers Manager Craig Counsell provided a timetable before Friday’s game with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Counsell said the initial plan is to see whether Shaw can recover without needing surgery.

Shaw, 31, is batting .191 with six homers and 28 RBIs in 56 games.

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