New York Mets ace Kodai Senga suffered a hamstring strain while covering first base in the sixth inning of his team's June 12 game against the Washington Nation

Tylor Megill and Griffin Canning turned in their two worst starts of the season in back-to-back days as the Mets got swept at home by the Rays. That those performances came on the heels of Kodai Senga's hamstring injury gave some people the ability to spew sky-is-falling fodder about the state of the Mets' rotation and how ominous things are.

Kodai Senga lanzó cinco 2/3 entradas sin permitir carreras el jueves antes de salir con una distensión en el tendón de la corva en la

No one looked more dejected than Pete Alonso. And no one could find a way to change that expression either, no matter the encouragement offered.

The Mets and Yankees have been the joint custodians of New York City’s rich baseball heritage for more than half a century. The Yanks have been around since 1903. The Mets began play 63 years ago after the departure of the Dodgers and Giants,