David Peterson rebounded for the Mets on Tuesday night, completing eight innings of one-run ball with a season-high 10 strikeouts against the Nationals.

It’s not just that David Peterson is pitching deep into games for the Mets. It’s that he’s the only one doing it. Peterson completed eight innings Tuesday in an 8-1 win over the Nationals, proving once again that when the Mets need length,

According to Britton, Peterson has gone six innings or more in 16 of his 24 starts, while the rest of the Mets staff has done so 18 times in 101 tries. Plus, Peterson has six of the Mets' eight starts of seven or more innings.

If Jake Irvin could get a do-over, he wouldn’t have thrown a curveball to Mark Vientos. And even if he did decide to throw that pitch, he surely wouldn’t have put it right down the middle — especially not when he was one strike away from getting out of the inning.

“Look, he was pretty impressive,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “And I feel like Senga on [Thursday], Sean on [Friday] found a way to give us five innings. You got another outing where a starter goes back out for the sixth.

Through 120 games, or almost exactly three-quarters of the season, the Mets have received fewer than five innings per game from their starters. Some of that can be explained by the nuances of modern professional baseball,

David Peterson and Reed Garrett combined to give up nine runs in the fourth inning as the Mets fell flat in a 11-6 loss to the Braves on Wednesday.