SEATTLE — Something is amiss with Jacob deGrom.

DeGrom called his five-run, five-inning start at Seattle in the Rangers’ 5-4 loss Sunday on “terrible.” Used the word three times in the span of two minutes describing his day.

There was reason for his harsh self-criticism. This was not a very deGrom-like start. He allowed three homers on Sunday. It’s the first time that’s happened since he signed with the Rangers. He allowed two of them with two outs immediately following a walk. He also walked the first batter of the game. Know how many times deGrom has allowed three free bases and three homers in a game? Well, it hasn’t happened since 2015. And it was the second straight start in which he’s allowed five runs. Yeah, been a while for that, too. 2017, in fact.

“Today we lost because I did

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