The Mets’ modest winning streak came to an end after just three games as Kodai Senga struggled against the Nationals tonight in D.C. and the team’s comeback effort came up short.
Senga gave up two runs in each of the third and fourth innings to put the Mets down 4-0 early, and after Brett Baty got the Mets on the board with a solo home run that was an absolute blast, Senga allowed a run in the bottom of the inning to give the Nationals their four-run cushion right back. In total, Senga went five innings and gave up five runs—four
of them earned—on six hits with four strikeouts and two walks.
The Mets’ lineup answered that fifth run quickly, though, as Pete Alonso drove in the team’s second run of the night on a double in the top of the sixth. Jeff McNeil followed that up immediately by hitting a two-run double, cutting the deficit to just one run. Despite going on to load the bases later in the inning, though, they failed to score again in that inning. And the Nationals’ bullpen, which is objectively bad, shut them down in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings.
To cap things off, Brandon Nimmo had to leave the game early with neck stiffness in the second inning. The team can’t afford to lose him for long, as the team is now six-and-a-half games back in the division and has a rather tenuous hold on the final Wild Card spot in the National League at the time of this writing.
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Win Probability Added
What’s WPA?
Big Mets winner: Tyler Rogers, +7.9% WPA
Big Mets loser: Luis Torrens, -33.0% WPA
Mets pitchers: -10.1% WPA
Mets hitters: -39.9% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Jeff McNeil hits a two-run double in the sixth, +14.2% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Luis Torrens grounds into a double play to end the game, -17.1% WPA
