senga gets injured and things changed after that for the team. another historic meltdown and it leads to nimmo, diaz and alonso jumping ship.

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  2. I truly wonder what would have happened if Senga didn’t get injured. His stats definitely benefitted from a good amount of luck, but his advanced stats still had him as 3 era pitching. If he pitches to a low three era the Mets are in the playoffs

  3. I was at that damn game, weekday day game. Cheap tickets for great seats behind 3rd, saw the play develop and my heart sank. Yup this was the turning point. I’m not blaming Pete, shit happens. Diaz also gave me a sweat in the 9th that day.

  5. Senga is made of glass. If that never happened something else would’ve and he’d be on the IL

  6. Revisionist history. It’s some combination of Stearns and Cohen not wanting to spend on core offensive players

  7. If you watched his starts before this game, it was one of the strangest seasons I had ever seen. He was getting insanely lucky with getting out of jams. It was never going to last. He had an ERA under 2 but didn’t qualify for the lead because he was pitching so few innings from all of the baserunners.

  9. that game was our turning point last season. its like the moment our titanic hit the iceberg. alonso was the skipper.

  11. Pete did have a great year but this play will be my lasting memory of him and 2025. I would imagine that any thoughts of Pete coming back ended on this play. Not very often can you look back at one individual play that led to the downfall of the season, but this one was 100% the catalyst for our collapse.

  13. I’m not a sports doctor but I feel like injuries like this are wear and tear issues that are finally prompted by an awkward movement, right? Like Griffin Canning was gonna rupture his achilles SOMEHOW, it isn’t that he stepped off the mound with incredible tendon-tearing force.

    Signing Soto meant locking up the DH in future years, and Pete having a good 2025 led to him opting out and getting the long-length deal he wanted. That’s the butterfly effect. We signed one great player and another great player had a great year.

    Losing Pete sucks but this “ACTUALLY WE NEVER WANTED HIM BACK AND HE RUINED 2025” is an insane stages-of-grief take.

  14. My husband and I only made it to two games at Citi Field this year. Somehow the Senga injury was one of them. The place went so quiet. We were on such a tear right up until then and somehow you knew that it was over.

  16. What does this have to do with anything now? The Mets were kind of miraculously saved by the exact kind of owner they needed and are as well positioned as ever, what does this have to do with that?

  18. Incorrect: the taxi cab accident was the turning point. So much would have changed if Duaner had just stayed in his room.

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