The Mets plan to start Kodai Senga against the Reds tomorrow night, as the team needed a replacement for Christian Scott, who hit the injured list with a hip issue today. Senga hasn’t pitched in a major league game since April 26 himself, as he’s been on the injured list for just shy of two months.
Senga initially went on the IL because of lumbar spine inflammation, and at the time, he had just had three consecutive abysmal appearances. Having looked fantastic in his first two starts of the season,
he had a 17.28 ERA over the course of the three bad starts, and in total, he has a 9.00 ERA and a 6.15 FIP in 20.0 innings of work with the Mets this season.
Senga’s rehab assignment didn’t go particularly well, either, as he was just so-so in his first three rehab starts, the first of which came with Single-A St. Lucie before he moved to Triple-A Syracuse for the second and third. Following the second starts for Syracuse, Senga missed a scheduled rehab start Double-A Binghamton on June 9. Two days later, however, he went six innings, struck out five, walked one, and gave up one run for Binghamton. That was easily his best appearance in a while, but the Reds are more formidable than the minor league hitters he faced a few days ago.
