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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 12 - The Washington Nationals fell to the New York Mets on Thursday afternoon, as the Nats lost their fifth straight game. The 4-3 defeat came as an early deficit from Michael Soroka was not overcome by the lineup, as the bats did not wake up until it was too late.
Soroka took the bump, looking to cruise early to give his lineup the best chance of chasing Kodai Senga. He threw a 30-pitch first inning, including issuing full-count walks to Francisco Lindor and Juan Soto before allowing a three-run homer to Jeff McNeil. He got out of the inning, but at what cost? Soroka got through the second, third, and fourth innings with scoreless marks. The fifth looked promising too, but he left a pitch in the zone for Brandon Nimmo, who sent it out of the park to make it a 4-0 ballgame. Dave Martinez allowed Soroka to finish the inning, which he did effectively, but that would be all for him. He finished with four runs, three hits, three walks, and five strikeouts on 102 pitches. His ERA is now 5.14.
Eduardo Salazar relieved him, and threw the sixth and seventh frames, allowing three hits and two walks, but no runs. Zach Brzykcy then threw a scoreless eighth to lower his ERA to 4.91, which got the Nats to the ninth as they looked to battle.
Offensively, James Wood hit a single in the second at-bat of the game, which was the only hit the Nats got off of Senga. The team really struggled off of him, as he went for 5.2 innings allowing just that hit and a walk, with five striekouts. The outing lowered his ERA to 1.47. Senga got injured covering first on a CJ Abrams ground ball (the Mets now say he will now need an IL stint for a hamstring injury), so the Nats quickly adjusted to be ready for a new arm after taking a moment to hope that Senga was alright.
“Senga was just really good. He kept everybody off-balance. I know we were at two strikes a lot, but he was really good, man. The fastballs and cutters that he threw were really nothing over the middle the heart of the plate. So we had to battle all day."
The bullpen held the Nats scoreless until the top of the ninth, when Ryne Stanek allowed singles to Abrams and Wood, and another to Luis Garcia Jr. to score Abrams. The Mets then summoned Edwin Díaz, who walked Nathaniel Lowe and allowed a single to Josh Bell to cut the deficit to two. All of a sudden, the Nats had a fighting chance. However, a pop-up by Alex Call put an out on the board, giving Díaz enough confidence to get consecutive ground-outs from José Tena and Keibert Ruiz. This ended the comeback despite a passed ball scoring Garcia Jr putting the tying run on third.
"I loved the at-bats that last inning. So we got to take that, come back tomorrow and start those at-bats from the first inning on. Those at-bats were great.”
Up next…
The Nats will come home tonight, and start a seven-game homestand tomorrow. First up will be the Marlins for three, and then the Rockies for four. Mitchell Parker will face off with Edward Cabrera tomorrow as the Nats look to bounce back and return to the win column.