Mets' Noah Syndergaard, Brewers' Carlos Gomez move past beaning
Mets' Noah Syndergaard and Brewers' Carlos Gomez exchanged tweets and texts to wish each other well and to express that there's no hard feelings for the beaning incident.
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Hours after hitting him in the left earflap with a 97-mph fastball, Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard sent the Brewers' Carlos Gomez a message via Twitter on Sunday to wish him well, and the center fielder tweeted back his forgiveness and encouraged the rookie pitcher to not let the incident affect his pitching, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
"I saw he tweeted something so I send it back," Gomez said. "I wanted to make sure it doesn't affect his career. Most of the time when you throw hard and hit somebody, scary like that, it gets in your head. You start get a little bit scared to throw inside."
Gomez suffered a facial contusion but not a concussion, and was back in the Brewers' lineup Monday in Detroit.
"I feel good," Gomez said. "I'm lucky it hit the ear flap. I don't think in the old days they throw that hard."
The two also spoke and texted each other Monday.
"I talked to him [Monday] and I said, 'I make sure I want to talk to you because I see you really scared in the tough moment,'" Gomez said. "'You have a long career and I don't want this to get in your head.'"
