182, lefties were at .215.TRAINERS ROOMMets: The team said RHP Matt Harvey was resting comfortably after having

Ive seen plenty of world champions go -- and in some cases, come back again -- but never have I witnessed a departure like this one.The world of F1 media spent Friday reeling as schedules, plans and programmes were swept aside by the news from Vienna. No one saw it coming. In a business driven by rumour accelerated into inaccurate fact by social media, there had not been a single suggestion that Nico Rosberg would make the trophy he craved most his last.The new world champions exhausted state in the Abu Dhabi media centre on Sunday evening said two things. Here was an indication of the intense pressure, not just during the final 10 laps as his lifes work had come under a threat he could do little about, but of a mental battle that had actually begun with recovery from the crushing defeat by Lewis Hamilton in the U.S. Grand Prix in September 2015.And despite the appearance of fatigue, there was a feeling that once the relief of finally achieving that dream had been realised over the coming hours and days, Rosberg was going to march into 2017 more confident than before with the crown on his head and the monkey off his back.As it turns out, the one thought in his mind was getting back his life with his wife sitting quietly and happily among the journalists in the audience. Vivian knew he was likely to retire. But no one else had an inkling at that stage. Not even his father as I later chatted to Keke and recalled Las Vegas 34 years before when the first Rosberg name went on the championship trophy his boy had just won the right to hold.Keke knew all about the stress Nico had been under earlier that evening. He was familiar with the fallacy of not needing to win and only score points supposedly making the race comparatively straightforward. In Las Vegas, Keke only required two more points; fifth place being good enough on 25 September 1982.You cant believe how difficult that is, Keke recalled. There were concrete walls all round that stupid track and you were afraid of someone doing something stupid and pushing you into one. Your nerves are raw. Mario [Andretti] had a suspension failure and [his Ferrari] nearly hit me. That would have been it. Championship gone! I could hardly watch the last few laps today. I knew exactly what Nico was going through. Now he can enjoy himself next year. Hes earned it after a season like this one.Nico, a man very much at ease in his own skin, was soon to decide that he had earned the right to something else. Whether he regrets that in three months or three years, or not at all, is irrelevant. It was a brave decision, one that will later spare us the frequent discomfort of watching a former champion continue to fight the passing of years as well as hungry competitors almost half his age.Rosberg, in turn, will not have any concern over the easy but inevitable social media sneers about a championship won only because of Lewiss bad luck. The championship was over 21 races, the winner being the driver with the most points. Luck does play a part; Keke will admit that. But there is no asterisk listing caveats by his name on the championship trophy. And there will be none against the winner 34 places higher on the silverware.Lewis Hamilton may be the fastest man out there, but Nico Rosberg is the 2016 world champion. 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Pinch-hitter Matt Szczur hit a grounder to first baseman James Loney, and Loney threw out Russell at the plate.Kris Bryant then hit into a 5-4-3 double play to give Familia his 33rd save in 33 chances this season and 49th straight dating to Aug. 1, 2015.I just always try in a situation like that, to throw my sinker down and let them make contact with a groundball and believe in myself, Familia said. I just try to believe and think I can do it.Familias teammates kept their cool, tooI know Familia is going to do it, catcher Rivera said. I know he has been there before. After the first couple of batters, I went out there and gave him support.Rivera had the third single in the ninth -- following hits by Loney and Asdrubal Cabrera -- off Hector Rondon (1-2) as the Mets beat the Cubs for the fifth time in six games after sweeping them in last years NL Championship Series.Hansel Robles (4-3) pitched two scoreless innings in relief for the win.All-Star right-handers Jake Arrieta of the Cubs and Noah Syndergaard of the Mets returned to dominant form in no decisions.Arrieta retired 14 of the first 15 Mets hitters, including 12 straight following Yoenis Cespedes single in the first. He allowed one run and struck out eight in seven innings, his longest outing since June 11. Last years NL Cy Young Award winner got back on track after allowing four or more earned runs in three consecutive starts for the first time since 2012.That was a little more like it, Arrieta said. I was really aggressive in the strike zone and I was using my off-speed pretty much throughout the whole game.Syndergaard gave up one unearned run on seven hits through 5 2/3 innings. He struck out eight before being replaced by Jerry Blevins after throwing 105 pitches.Syndergaard had his velocity early, reaching 100 mph in the first inning, and was able to escape jams in the first and second. He left in the fifth inning of his previous start, on July 8, with arm fatigue after allowing tthree runs in a loss to Washington.ddddddddddddIt was great to come in here and squeeze out a win against their ace, Syndergaard said. My arm felt really loose and fluid even later in the game.New Yorks Michael Conforto made his first start, in right field, since being recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas on Sunday and went 0 for 3. He had pinch-hit on Monday and singled.Arrieta doubled with two out in the fourth, then was thrown out at the plate when he tried to score on Tommy La Stellas single. At first, Arrieta was ruled safe by umpire Eric Cooper, but he was called out following a video review.CONFORTO FACTORMets manager Terry Collins is concerned about overloading Conforto too soon after his recall, so he started the 23-year-old in right field and Curtis Granderson in center on Tuesday with the wind blowing in at Wrigley Field. Conforto may see time in center in the future, though.Conforto got off to a nice start with the Mets but was sent down on June 25 after a prolonged slump.This kid got sent out because he wasnt hitting, Collins said before the game. He gets his swing back and comes up and the first thing that hits him in the face is to play center field. So were going to ease him into it.RIGHT ANGLEBoth Collins and Chicago manager Joe Maddon loaded their starting lineups with lefties against two of the majors premier right-handed starters.Maddon called out the split against Syndergaard as enormously different. Righties entered hitting .210 against him, lefties were batting .282. Against Arrieta, righties were hitting .182, lefties were at .215.TRAINERS ROOMMets: The team said RHP Matt Harvey was resting comfortably after having season-ending surgery for thoracic outlet surgery in St. Louis on Monday.Cubs: All-Star 2B Ben Zobrist batted fourth after getting two days off. ... OFs Dexter Fowler (right hamstring strain) and Jorge Soler (left hamstring strain) had the start of their rehab stints at Triple-A pushed back a day when the Iowa Cubs were rained out. Maddon said both were close to returning, but he didnt know exactly.UP NEXTRHP Bartolo Colon (8-4, 3.11) squares off against Chicago RHP Kyle Hendricks (8-6, 2.41) in the series finale on Wednesday afternoon. Hendricks allowed just three hits in six shutout innings in his last start against Texas on Friday and has a 1.70 ERA in his last 11 outings. ' ' '