On a night Kodai Senga again relied heavily on his ghost forkballs, it was the Mets’ offense that was disappearing.
The Mets have struck out 28 times and scored one run in two games against the Nationals, making the division-worst club look like the team with two future Hall of Famers in its rotation.
But against Hunter Harvey, the struggling Starling Marte swung through a 99 mph fastball and Francisco Lindor chased a diving splitter, Mets fans booing a team that has stopped hitting.Robert Sabo for NY Post The Mets’ 1-through-5 hitters combined to go 1-for-19 with a walk and eight strikeouts, their only hit an RBI single from Marte.
Senga allowed two runs in five eventful innings in which he consistently navigated around traffic. He allowed five hits and four walks but was nasty when he needed to be, consistently relying upon strikeouts to escape jams.
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