Overview

• New York’s three-game winning streak ended and the club sat just a half-game ahead of the Reds for the final NL Wild Card spot, pending Cincinnati’s later result.
• Kodai Senga allowed five runs (four earned) over five innings on six hits with two walks and four strikeouts, raising his ERA to 2.58 and leaving him with a 6.00 ERA over six starts since returning from the IL.
• Brandon Nimmo left in the second inning with neck stiffness, and with a prior bulging disk in 2019 there was no immediate update on his status.
• The Mets pulled within one on a Brett Baty 455-foot homer, a Pete Alonso RBI double and a Jeff McNeil two-run double, but Washington’s bullpen held them scoreless over the final three frames as a ninth-inning chance ended in a double play.
• Manager Carlos Mendoza deployed Tyler Rogers, Gregory Soto and Reed Garrett for three scoreless innings, while the rotation’s strain persisted with a streak of 61 straight games without a non-David Peterson starter completing six.