NEW YORK (AP) — Senga won his great Citi Area debut and the New York Mets bought residence runs from Pete Alonso and slumping Eduardo Escobar to beat the Miami Marlins 5-2 on Saturday.
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With followers hanging ghost indicators on an outfield railing to mark Senga’s strikeouts, the Japanese rookie with the disappearing “ghost forkball” fired six innings of 3-hit ball. The only operate he authorized came on a leadoff homer by Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the sixth.
Putting on a Mets blue-and-orange glove with an graphic of a ghost and a pitchfork, Senga (2-) walked a few and whiffed six. Four strikeouts arrived on his “ghost fork” — which include all three batters in the 2nd inning.
All eight of Senga’s strikeouts came on that awful forkball when he won his important league debut Sunday in Miami. The correct-hander signed a $75 million, five-yr contract with the Mets in December just after pitching for 11 seasons in Japan with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
John Curtiss retired cleanup batter Jorge Soler with the bases loaded to protect a three-operate guide in the seventh. Curtiss labored a ideal eighth and David Robertson breezed as a result of a 1-2-3 ninth for his next preserve this season in spot of injured closer Edwin Díaz.
Luis Arraez had an RBI one for the Marlins, and Chisholm built two outstanding catches at his new place in center area.
1 day immediately after the Mets drew 12 walks in a 9-3 acquire, Jeff McNeil walked with the bases loaded in the initial to force in the first operate.
Alonso chased Trevor Rogers (-2) in the fifth with a two-run shot, his fourth homer in the earlier 3 online games and fifth this year. Rogers also dropped to Senga previous weekend.
McNeil also doubled on his 31st birthday primary off the sixth and scored on the homer by Escobar, who started the day batting .083 with 1 RBI.
New York (5-4) has not manufactured an mistake this calendar year, the longest stretch to begin a period in franchise historical past.
Relocating Around
Mark Canha began at to start with foundation for the to start with time considering that 2020 with Oakland, providing Alonso a minor break as the DH.
UP Next
Marlins: LHP Braxton Garrett moves back again into the rotation Sunday in the sequence finale. Garrett will start off in place of Johnny Cueto, put on the hurt listing just after leaving his Marlins debut Monday with correct biceps tightness. Garrett, the seventh all round select in the 2016 beginner draft, was 3-7 with a 3.58 Period in 17 commences for Miami final period. He made one aid overall look in the majors this yr, permitting two runs and six hits more than a few innings April 1 from the Mets.
Mets: Francisco Álvarez will make his initially begin at the rear of the plate because finding recalled from the minors Friday, manager Buck Showalter claimed. The 21-calendar year-old Álvarez is one particular of the best-ranked potential customers in baseball. Carlos Carrasco (-1) pitches for New York soon after providing up 5 runs, 4 hits and four walks around 4-additionally innings in his time debut Monday at Milwaukee. He is 5-1 with a 2.63 Period in 10 vocation starts off against Miami.
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