Mets Kodai Senga has another strong outing: I still dont know

Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Mike Puma about the inside buzz on the Mets.DENVER — Kodai Senga paused as he grappled to answer the question.What worked best for him on this night?“I still don’t know,” the Mets right-hander said with a laugh after his team beat the Rockies 4-2 on Friday.There wasn’t much to quibble with after Senga threw a career-high 109 pitches and held the Rockies to one run on five hits and two walks with six strikeouts over six innings.Mickey Moniak inflicted the only damage against Senga with a third-inning home run.

Senga began the game with a 1.60 ERA and departed with a 1.59 ERA.“[Senga] is an ace-type outing every time he takes the baseball,” manager Carlos Mendoza said.“I feel good with all our guys, too, but with Kodai, he continues to get better.

I feel he’s getting to a point now where, since first pitch, there is intensity there, the way the ball is coming out and he’s using all his pitches.”Senga admitted that finishing the sixth was a challenge, given his pitch count.“I did feel that, feel the pitch count,” Senga said.“The movement on my pitches were not quite what I wanted, but I was able to grind it out and get through six.”Sean Manaea threw 36 pitches over 1 ²/₃ innings in his first minor league rehab start, for Single-A Brooklyn.

The left-hander allowed four runs, one unearned, on four hits with two strikeouts.It was the left-hander’s first appearance in a game this season.

He has been rehabbing an oblique strain since early in spring training.Brandon Nimmo, a Wyoming native who grew up attending games at Coors Field, entered play with a .365/.429/.525 slash line in 19 games in this ballpark.Friday was not a banner night for the left fielder, however, as Nimmo finished the win 0-for-5 with a strikeout.

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