Curry was taken deep by Pete Alonso, Jeremiah Jackson, Christian Encarnacion-Strand and Samuel Basallo to account for all of the runs against him. It was the first start of the season for the right-hander, who worked out of the bullpen in his eight prior big-league appearances this year and had a respectable 3.44 ERA over 18.1 innings. Curry is likely to shift to the bullpen or potentially be sent back to Triple-A Syracuse after the spot start.

He'll enter the rotation as a replacement for the injured Robert Stock (fingers). All of the right-hander's eight outings for the Mets to this point have come in relief, but 13 of Curry's 15 appearances at Syracuse have been starts. He holds a 3.44 ERA and 12:8 K:BB over 18.1 frames with the big club.