Bartolo Colon leaves start in first after line drive to right hand

New York Mets’ pitcher Noah Syndergaard, aka Thor, was set to pitch in the Mets vs. Royals game Tuesday night.

He was the first Mets pitcher to record only one out in a start since left-hander Jonathon Niese exited with an injury on July 4, 2014. Kansas City Royals leadoff batter Whit Merrifield hit a shot right back to the mound.

Ian Kennedy (5-6) allowed two runs over four innings. Between the three of them they only allowed one baserunner, a single by Cuthbert with two outs in the ninth.

Kennedy took the loss after allowing the two runs on four hits and one walk while striking out two over four innings.

“I think my thought was more ‘Boy, this would be a great game to win, ‘ with what happened, to still have the lead when you got to the back end of the bullpen”, Mets manager Terry Collins said.

Goeddel worked around base runners in the sixth as he threw two innings for just the sixth time in 45 big league appearances.

DIAMONDBACKS 4, BLUE JAYS 2 Yasmany Tomas and Peter O’Brien homered, Patrick Corbin threw 61/3 solid innings and Arizona beat host Toronto for its fifth consecutive victory.

The teams split a two-game series in Kansas City to open the season, but the Royals returned to Citi Field on Tuesday for the first time since clinching their World Series title last November with a stirring rally in Game 5.

New York Mets relief pitcher Hansel Robles (47) delivers during the first inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals after he came in to pitch when starting pitcher Bartolo Colon was hit by Whit Merrifield’s grou…

Colon (6-3, 3.01) was coming off a win over the Pirates last Thursday, when he threw 99 pitches in 7 2/3 sharp innings.

Verrett was demoted June 12 to Las Vegas, where he tossed six shutout innings of two-hit ball in his lone start last Thursday against Reno.

James McCann added a sacrifice fly to make it 4-2, and Francisco Rodriguez pitched the ninth for his 20th save in 22 chances. Kansas City has been on a tear of late and have quietly put together a stretch that has them seven games above the. The inning had begun with a single and a walk, and with nobody out and the Royals trailing 2-1, Yost chased a big inning. Chicago led the whole way after Anderson homered to left on the first pitch from Clay Buchholz (3-7) in the right-hander’s return to Boston’s rotation after spending about a month in the bullpen.