Kodai Senga proved something of a mystery to the Marlins hitters, as well, as he won his Mets debut 5-1 to send the team on to Milwaukee in good spirits
MIAMI — The scoreboard operator at loanDepot park couldn’t even guess what new Mets starter Kodai Senga was throwing half the time, so the pitch types were often oddly labeled on the center-field scoreboard as “UNKNOWN.”
When Senga was done with his dominant debut, he left to a standing ovation from most of the visiting crowd, Mets fans thrilled to see that the team may have another star for their rotation. Typical of well-heeled New Yorkers, this is like a second home for the Mets. Based on outing No. 1, Senga’s adjustment to a bigger baseball, a steeper mound, foreign soil and all the new rules seems pretty seamless. In game, Senga’s performance went from shaky to superior in a hurry. But from the over-amped 99 mph fastball that started his day to the 84 mph ghost fork that struck out Jazz Chisholm Jr. to start the sixth inning, the stuff played.
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