On a night after the Mets lot on a walk-off balk - after trading away a number of key players - it would’ve been nice to have an easy Mets win. But, this is the 2023 Mets, and things just don’t tend to work out the way they should, and the Mets dropped the second game of the series 4-0 to the Royals.
Kodai Senga had a rough first and second inning, in part due to the clumping of the mound clay on Senga’s cleats, which required a visit from Jeremy Hefner and an extra tool to dig out the spikes.