Powered by dominant pitching.Syndergaard threw his first major league shutout and the Mets wrapped up a frustrating 2018 campaign Sunday with their second consecutive 1-0 victory over the Miami Marlins.“I told the bullpen before the game that they could take the day off. True story Deion Sanders Jersey ,” Syndergaard said. “It’s a great feeling.”Todd Frazier hit an RBI double for the Mets, who finished fourth in the NL East at 77-85 under rookie manager Mickey Callaway — a seven-win improvement over last year. After beginning the season with playoff aspirations, they jumped out to an 11-1 start before going 5-21 in June as injuries once again took a heavy toll.New York rebounded a bit to win 33 of its last 55 games, but by then it was way too late.“I feel like we played some really good baseball,” Syndergaard said.Promising rookie Sandy Alcantara (2-3) struck out a career-high 10 over seven innings in his sixth major league start for the Marlins — three against the Mets.“I thought he was more aggressive,” manager Don Mattingly said. “There’s nothing monumental that happened today other than this guy has a chance to be a really good pitcher, and consistency is going to be the key.”After trading Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, Marcell Ozuna and Dee Gordon during an offseason payroll purge, the Marlins ended up with the worst record in the National League at 63-98 in Derek Jeter’s first year as chief executive officer. Miami went scoreless over the final 24 innings.“Last two days, kind of indicative. We go (22) innings and only give up two runs and we don’t win either game,” Mattingly said.Jeter signaled this month that Mattingly is expected back next year. Looking to have some fun at the finish line, he appointed All-Star catcher J.T. Realmuto to pilot the team Sunday.“It was fun. I enjoyed it, for sure,” Realmuto said. “It was actually a fairly easy game to manage because Sandy did a great job Alen Hanson Jersey , obviously, so there weren’t many moves on our part.”Syndergaard (13-4) allowed five hits and fanned six in a fast finale that took just 2 hours, 10 minutes. He walked none and threw 101 pitches for his second career complete game. The other one came on Sept. 2 in San Francisco, and the big right-hander completed the season by tossing a career-best 15 straight scoreless innings while pitching with a sinus infection.“He kind of pitched at 90 percent, 95 percent. It’s pretty good when you throw 95 (mph) at 95 percent,” Callaway said. “But I think he learned a little bit of a lesson that sometimes a tad less is more.”Alcantara struck out five straight before Jeff McNeil opened the fourth with a single for New York’s first hit. McNeil scored from first when left fielder Isaac Galloway misplayed Frazier’s hard-hit double.LAST HURRAHA day after David Wright’s emotional goodbye at Citi Field, the Mets gave Jose Reyes another ceremonial start at shortstop. The 35-year-old Reyes, who batted .189 in a bench role this season, was lifted after grounding out leading off the bottom of the first. He hugged teammates in the dugout and received a warm ovation while coming out for a curtain call for the crowd of 28,346.“I just thought he deserved to be on the field one more time,” Callaway said.Reyes, a four-time All-Star, doesn’t expect to be back with the Mets next season and isn’t sure about his major league future.Wright didn’t play but was given a few more ovations.HOW’D THAT HAPPEN? Syndergaard’s bat broke off just above his hands as he started to swing — and obviously miss — at a third-inning pitch.“Maybe termites or something,” the pitcher said with a smile.Teammates cracked up in the dugout as Syndergaard stood dumbfounded in the batter’s box.“It was like the most Thor thing I can think of,” outfielder Michael Conforto said.After getting some new lumber Edgar Martinez Jersey , Syndergaard struck out but then lashed a sharp single in the fifth.NEW KID IN TOWNMcNeil had two hits to give him 36 in September, breaking the club record for rookies set by Gregg Jefferies in 1989.LOST ARTSyndergaard’s complete-game shutout was only the 19th in the majors this year, fewest in a season since 1874, when there were just eight teams. There were 27 such outings last season.The previous Mets pitcher with a complete-game shutout was Jacob deGrom on July 17, 2016.Syndergaard won his seventh straight decision at home and improved to 6-0 with a 1.64 ERA and 60 strikeouts against six walks in eight career starts against the Marlins.TRAINER’S ROOMMets: LF Yoenis Cespedes is scheduled for his second heel surgery Oct. 23 — this time on his left foot — but said he can’t yet predict how much he’ll be able to play next season. The oft-injured slugger had surgery Aug. 2 to remove bone calcification in his right heel, the first of two operations expected to sideline him for eight to 10 months.UP NEXTMarlins: Pitchers and catchers report to spring training Feb. 13, and Miami opens the 2019 season March 28 against Colorado.Mets: Begin next season at NL East rival Washington. The O’s offense showed up late and the bullpen never showed up at all."The Orioles lost their fourth in a row and their eighth in their last nine attempts. A slow start for the offense and a poor showing by the bullpen spelled disaster as the O’s fell 6-4 to the Red Sox at Fenway Park on Friday night.David Hess started for the O’s in this one, and his final line looks pretty solid. He came one out from recording a “quality start.” Over 5.2 innings, the right-hander allowed three runs on six hits, three strikeouts and no walks. With the way the rest of the pitching staff has performed, manager Brandon Hyde would love to get that type of production from the rest of his hurlers. So, we really can’t complain.But Hess also left more than a few pitches in the middle of the plate. As you would expect from a lineup as talented as the Red Sox, they got hit pretty hard. When Hess was removedin the sixth inning, he had allowed the 11 hardest hit balls of the game, according to Statcast.Many of those barreled swings did some damage Ryon Healy Jersey , but the O’s starter got a little luck as well. J.D. Martinez was victimized twice, flying out in the first inning on a swing with an expected batting average of .960 and a runner on second base, and then again in the fourth inning with a runner on first. If hits like that did find the hole they deserved, Hess would be looking back at a much different performance.As it is, Hess was steady. He avoided any free passes and stayed competitive. The first run he allowed came off of an Andrew Benintendi solo shot in the bottom of the third inning. He served up two more runs in the next frame. First, Xander Bogaerts doubled in Mitch Moreland from first, and then Bogaerts himself came home on an Eduardo Nunez single a few batters later.Meanwhile, the Orioles offense was doing nothing to support their pitcher. Literally, the O’s did not have a single baserunner through the first 4.2 innings of the game. Eduardo Rodriguez had a perfect game going until Hanser Alberto broke things up with a single to left field.The Birds would remain without a run until the seventh inning. That is when they took advantage of a rare error by Mookie Betts in right field. Technically, it will go down as a Trey Mancini double, but Betts misread the ball and should have made a fairly routine catch. Instead, he set the stage for Dwight Smith Jr. to hit his second home run of the season and make it a 3-2 game.The Baltimore bats weren’t done just yet, but the bullpen was unable to keep the Red Sox at bay.Paul Fry came on in relief of Hess. The lefty finished up the sixth inning but then got into his own trouble in the seventh, allowing back-to-back singles to Christian Vazquez and Benintendi, with a wild pitch in between. Evan Phillips was the next to jog in from the bullpen. Let’s just say that the Maryland-born reliever had some issues. With Betts batting http://www.marinersfanproshop.com/authentic-edgar-martinez-jersey , Phillips uncorked a wild pitch to allow Vazquez to score Boston’s fourth run of the night.Phillips returned for the eighth inning, and his struggles continued. He allowed a double to Martinez followed by two infield hits and then a sacrifice fly. When it was all said and done, the Red Sox found themselves up 6-2. After that, it was Mike Wright Jr. time to shine, and he actually pitched fine, inducing a fly out against the one batter that he faced.A long fly ball by Joey Rickard in the Orioles half of the eighth inning had nearly closed the gap a bit, but it was hit in the general vicinity of Jackie Bradley Jr., which is rarely a recipe for offensive success.The O’s did draw nearer in the ninth inning. Following a Trey Mancini walk, Renato Nunez launched a bomb over the green monster in left center field to cut the deficit to 6-4. The ball traveled an estimated 450 feet and came off the bat at 112.7 mph, the second-hardest hit ball of the game.But that is as close as the O’s would get. Ryan Basier entered and earned the save (3) by cleaning fielding an attempted bunt for a hit by Alberto and then inducing a weak line out by the pinch-hitting Chris Davis.It was one of those games that never truly felt competitive. The Boston pitching staff cruised for most of the night, the Baltimore bullpen was a mess and Davis extended his MLB-record hitless streak by one at-bat.These two teams will get back together on Saturday afternoon. Lefty John Means (1-1, 2.08) is on the mound to face fellow southpaw David Price (0-1, 6.00 ERA). First pitch is set for 1:05 at Fenway. You can watch the game on MLB Network out of market or on MASN if you live in Birdland.