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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium -- The smile is back on Daniel Ricciardos face.After a tough start to the Formula One season, which saw him struggle for form, watch a teenager upstaging him and then berate his own team, the Australian driver has now secured three straight podium finishes.His second place at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday was full of the composure that the 27-year-old Australian showed in his first season with Red Bull in 2014, when he won three races, finished on the podium five more times and outperformed four-time champion Sebastian Vettel.That raised expectations, but 2015 was disappointing with just two podiums, and this season started in a similarly frustrating fashion.Four races into the season, as his team made a sudden switch by replacing Daniil Kvyat with Max Verstappen, he looked on as the 18-year-old Verstappen drove to a splendid win at the Spanish GP in May.Ricciardo, who was fourth in Spain, felt that team orders worked against him in that race, and again at the ensuing Monaco GP in late May.Red Bull team principal Christian Horner apologized to him after a calamitous pit stop cost him a near-certain victory.By this point, Riccirados grin turned into a surly growl.Two races in a row Ive been screwed, said an irate Ricciardo, who started that race from pole position and had been electrifyingly quick in practice. They should have been ready. It hurts.He was in a much better mood on Sunday, after a composed drive saw him hold off Lewis Hamilton, who was third.It was cool, said Ricciardo, who now has 14 career podiums. To keep Lewis behind was great.Ricciardos trademark broad grin was stretching across his face as he engaged in some podium antics with countryman Mark Webber, a former F1 driver with Red Bull who won nine races in his career.Webber was interviewing the top three after Sundays race when Ricciardo, known for his zany humor, took off one of his racing shoes and asked Webber to drink some Champagne out of it.Webber refused, then changed his mind as Ricciardo broke out into raucous laughter watching him sipping the bubbly out of his shoe.I think we just made our country even prouder, he said to Webber, while race winner Nico Rosberg and Hamilton looked on.Ricciardo is third in the F1 standings behind the Mercedes pair.Next up is the Italian GP in Monza, a circuit which traditionally is more difficult for Red Bull. 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NEW YORK -- Mets general manager Sandy Alderson acknowledged the presence of bone spurs in the back of the pitching elbows of Steven Matz and Noah Syndergaard?but said he expected the duo will continue pitching.Alderson indicated that Matzs spur is more significant and he will need to have it surgically removed, though the hope is it can wait until after the season. Surgery would require a three-month recovery time, so any in-season procedure would end at least Matzs 2016 regular-season contribution.Alderson described Syndergaards bone spur as very small and suggested 90 percent of major league pitchers have something comparable. Syndergaard is being treated with anti-inflammatory medication. He will not need to have the spur removed during the offseason, the GM said.Matz had been scheduled to face the Washington Nationals in Wednesdays series finale. Instead, Logan Verrett will make a spot start that day and Matz will be pushed back to Thursdays series opener against the Chicago Cubs at Citi Field. The Mets have absolute assurance from team doctors that Matz cannot damage his elbow by continuing to pitch with the spur, Alderson added.If Im claiming to be able to pitch, then I have no excuses, Matz said. I expect myself to go out and pitch like I can.Alderson said that in Matzs case it really is about pain tolerance.At this point its a function of whether he can tolerate the discomfort while continuing to pitch, Alderson said. What we will do is monitor that level of discomfort, monitor his mechanics to make sure whatever discomfort he has doesnt cause him to do something that might lead to something else, and well monitor it on a start-by-start basis.On Syndergaard, Alderson added: He doesnt have the level of discomfort that Steven does.dddddddddddd And its really insignificant.Syndergaard had denied on Tuesday the existence of a spur.I think really what hes been trying to do is not use that as an excuse for the fact that, for example, last night he didnt pitch particularly well, Alderson said.Alderson said the Mets will consider going to a six-man rotation at some point, potentially when Zack Wheeler returns from Tommy John surgery in August, but the team should not need to regularly skip or otherwise delay Matzs starts.We think moving him back a day in this particular instance is the right thing to do, but we dont expect it will necessarily be anything on a regular basis, Alderson said. Now, it may be at some point that we go to a six-man rotation or something else to address the situation. It may be Steven comes out after five or six as opposed to six or seven [innings], but those are things that well have to continue to monitor from start to start.Syndergaard regularly touched 100 mph during Tuesdays outing while allowing five runs on seven hits and three walks in three innings. It was the shortest start of Syndergaards career other than a game in which he was ejected for throwing behind the Dodgers Chase Utley. Manager Terry Collins said he believes Syndergaards struggles stemmed from overthrowing to prove his elbow was OK and because of the magnitude of the game against the first-place Nationals, not because anything was wrong with the elbow.Collins added that Syndergaard will not be impeded from participating in the All-Star Game. ' ' '