Mets pitching remained unbreakable on Monday night at Citi Field, as Kodai Senga, Danny Young, Jose Butto, and Ryne Stanek combined to shut out the Miami Marlins 2-0 and pick up New York’s fifth consecutive win.
Juan Soto doubled in the third inning to score Francisco Lindor to give Mets arms a narrow lead to work with for most of the night before Tyrone Taylor added another run of insurance with an RBI single in the eighth.
It was the high points of yet another concerning offensive showing. Despite amassing nine hits, the Mets (7-3) went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position. One of those nine hits was a Lindor single in the fifth inning, the 1,500th of his career. He became the 24th active player to reach that mark.
In his second start of the season, Senga worked around his fair share of traffic to go five scoreless innings, working around five hits and two walks to the tune of four strikeouts.
He was helped out by his defense, which turned double plays in the fourth and fifth innings to keep the right-hander’s ledger clean.
Across the final four innings, Young, Butto, and Stanek allowed just two hits and a walks.
Through the first 10 games of the season, the Mets have allowed just 22 runs, a franchise record for fewest runs yielded during a 10-game season-opening stretch.
