☀️ GOOD MORNING:
Before Kodai Senga strained his hamstring in Thursday afternoon’s game, the 2025 Mets were starting to look like one of those AI-generated videos from Veo 3, extremely realistic, but so much so it becomes unbelievable.
Everything has been going right for this team over the past few weeks, few months. Something bad was bound to happen. And here it is.
Senga will be placed on the IL with a strained hamstring. The MLB ERA leader, who had retired 17 of 19 batters and was on his way to adding at least six more scoreless frames to his ledger, injured himself while covering first base on Thursday. He immediately grabbed his leg in pain and tumbled to the ground. The scene was eerily familiar to when he hurt himself on his way to first base last season against the Braves. We know how things turned out following that injury. That also occurred in a game that felt like the a mid-season high point.
The Amazins held on to defeat the Nationals, 4-3, their sixth win in a row, the third time they have won at least six straight games this season. The game almost unraveled in the ninth when Ryne Stanek couldn’t record an out, requiring Edwin Díaz to enter with two runners on base, add a little gas to the fire, before extinguishing it to preserve the lead.
🍎 WINNING WAYS: While dampened by Senga’s injury, the Mets completed the sweep of the Nationals, improving their record at Citi Field to a franchise best 27–7 mark through the first 34 games at home. They are doing it with pitching and long balls — the Mets are the only team in the majors to have four players with 13 or more home runs this season (Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto).
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🤕 DOWN AND OUT
You can never have enough pitching! Didn’t your grandmother tell you this and repeat it over and over and over?
Just as reports started to circulate about Paul Blackburn drawing interest on the trade market, and as fans and pundits were debating who would be the odd man out in the rotation once Sean Manaea and Frankie Montas returned from the IL, Senga goes down like a pile of wooden blocks.
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