Jameson Taillon goes where he’s never gone before (and thrives)

Sound familiar? Well it should, because it’s 2015 all over again.

It made for a almost impossible task for Jacob deGrom against a Pirates team that entered Tuesday with a five-game losing streak. And the Mets fell quietly to Pittsburgh, 4-0. To make room for RHP Jameson Taillon on the active roster, the Pirates placed RHP Gerrit Cole (triceps) on the 15-day disabled list. He certainly pitched well enough in his debut to deserve further opportunities in the Pittsburgh rotation, holding an admittedly scuffling Mets lineup to three runs over six innings.

The second overall pick in the 2010 amateur draft, the 24-year-old Taillon featured a 95 miles per hour fastball and sharp curve in the opener of a three-game series between 2015 playoff teams.

Tuesday’s lineup was compromised more than usual because starters Michael Conforto (left wrist) and Neil Walker (back) were absent in addition to the three starters on the disabled list.

Manager Terry Collins said the players in the lineup have to pick up the slack when others are sidelined.

Instead, Tuesday’s loss showed just how anemic the Mets’ offense can be, especially without the injured David Wright and Lucas Duda, who won’t return anytime soon.

Jameson Taillon carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning in his second major league start and picked up his first career win by allowing two hits in eight shutout innings on Tuesday night as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Mets 4-0 at Citi Field. The closest Taillon came to giving up a hit was on slow rollers to first base by Curtis Granderson in the fourth and Alejandro De Aza and Asdrubal Cabrera in the sixth.

Albert Almora Jr. drove in the go-ahead run with a ninth-inning double, Dexter Fowler had two hits and Chicago won at Washington.

Walker received another day to deal with his stiff back that flared up Saturday. The Pirates have now lost four in a row and gone 4-11 over their last 15 games.

Sure, it’s only one start, but Taillon’s dominance tonight on the mound (and the strong way he pitched in his first outing) could easily help reverse the free-fall this Pirates team is in.

Righthander Jacob deGrom did his best to keep up.

Marte singled with two outs in the sixth before Kang homered to left-center off deGrom, who fell to 0-3 in eight starts since winning his first three of the season.

Jameson Taillon found out on Sunday that he would be making his second Major League Baseball start in NY.

In this Associated Press photo, Kang Jung-ho of the Pittsburgh Pirates celebrates his two-run home run off Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets on June 14, 2016, in New York.

The hitters were similarly frustrated by Taillon who was mowing them down easily.

Taillon, who allowed a single to left by James Loney in the eighth, was lifted after striking out five and walking one during a 91-pitch performance.

The Braves loaded the bases with none out in the ninth inning against reliever Blake Wood but failed to score after the Atlanta native and former Georgia Tech pitcher struck out pinch-hitter A.J. Pierzynski and induced a game-ending double-play grounder from Mallex Smith.