NEW YORK -- Right-hander Jacob deGrom is the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, but one wouldn’t necessarily know it the way the Twins handled [him in a 14-8 victory](https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-vs-mets/2019/04/09/565993/final/box) over the Mets on Tuesday night at Citi Field.\n\nHow dominating was deGrom prior to Tuesday’s tilt? He had pitched 26 consecutive scoreless innings and added another inning to the total before the Twins ended the streak in the second inning. Twins catcher
“We like to mess around and play video games and I told him. That’s how it happened,” Garver said.\n\nThe Mets tied the score in the bottom of the frame thanks to an Amed Rosario RBI double, but deGrom’s third inning proved it just wasn’t his day.
“We are just going to attack all the time,” Garver said. “Our guys are aggressive. There are no rules on taking pitches or anything. We just want to get out there, we want to swing, we want to do damage. We want to attack the baseball. You see our lineup. There is a lot of power all the way through.”\n\nWhen it was all said and done, the Twins had eleven hard-hit balls (95 mph or more off the bat) off deGrom. That ties for the second-most he’s allowed in any start since 2015 (he allowed 14 hard-hit balls on June 18, 2018, against the Rockies at Coors Field).\n\ndeGrom was gone by the time the Twins added to their lead in the sixth inning, when
By the time the game ended, the Twins had collected 17 hits and improved their record to 6-3.\n\n“It’s a lineup that everybody in the \\[American League\\] Central has to figure out how to navigate it,” said Twins starter