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Mets’ Kodai Senga to pitch in first rehab game since inflamed spine injury

Nypost · · 372 words · By Mike Puma
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“The Mets right-hander is scheduled to pitch Friday for Single-A St. Lucie”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm Kodai Senga is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment with Single-A St. Lucie on Friday.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 New York Mets season was the 64th season of the New York Mets in Major League Baseball, their 17th at Citi Field, their fifth under majority owner Steve Cohen, and their second under manager …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_Mets_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tylor J. Megill (born July 28, 1995) nicknamed "Big Drip", is an American professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021. Megill pitc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylor_Megill
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“the team placed him on the injured list April 27 with lumbar spine inflammation”
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Multiple sources confirm Senga was placed on the injured list (10-day or 15-day) retroactive to April 27 due to lumbar spine inflammation.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス, Fukuoka Sofutobanku Hōkusu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka_SoftBank_Hawks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 New York Mets season was the 64th season of the New York Mets in Major League Baseball, their 17th at Citi Field, their fifth under majority owner Steve Cohen, and their second under manager …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kodai Senga (千賀 滉大, Senga Kōdai; born January 30, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023 and Nippon Profe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodai_Senga
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“Senga, according to manager Carlos Mendoza, will throw 50-60 pitches, a maximum of four innings”
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Sportsnet.ca explicitly cites manager Carlos Mendoza stating Senga could throw 50-60 pitches with a four-inning maximum.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス, Fukuoka Sofutobanku Hōkusu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka_SoftBank_Hawks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kodai Senga (千賀 滉大, Senga Kōdai; born January 30, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023 and Nippon Profe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodai_Senga
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Senga may refer to: Senga (given name), the history and usage of the given name Senga people, an ethnic tribe of Zambia and Mozambique Nsenga language, also spelled Chinsenga and Senga Senga, a Thoro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senga
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“Senga, who owns a 9.00 ERA in five starts”
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Three separate sources confirm Senga has a 9.00 ERA in five starts this season.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (福岡ソフトバンクホークス, Fukuoka Sofutobanku Hōkusu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture. They compete in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukuoka_SoftBank_Hawks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kodai Senga (千賀 滉大, Senga Kōdai; born January 30, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023 and Nippon Profe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodai_Senga
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A total of 74 Japanese-born players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters. The first instance of a Japanese player playing …
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“He is one of two pitchers who began the season in the Mets rotation now on the IL (Clay Holmes, with a fractured right fibula, is the other)”
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Web search results confirm both Senga and Clay Holmes were in the rotation and are currently on the IL.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 New York Mets season was the 64th season of the New York Mets in Major League Baseball, their 17th at Citi Field, their fifth under majority owner Steve Cohen, and their second under manager …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_Mets_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 New York Mets season is the 65th season of the New York Mets in Major League Baseball, their 18th at Citi Field, and their sixth under majority owner Steve Cohen. The Mets will attempt to imp…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_York_Mets_season
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) …
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“Clay Holmes, with a fractured right fibula”
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Five separate cross-references from Nypost confirm Clay Holmes has a fractured right fibula.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — filling the vacancy created by Clay Holmes’ fractured right fibula
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/sports/what-mets-zach-thornton…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Clay Holmes (now on the IL with a fractured right fibula)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/17/sports/freddy-peralta-set-to-m…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — Clay Holmes’ deployment to the injured list over the last week with a fractured right fibula.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/sports/david-petersons-powers-…
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“Another starting pitcher, Sean Manaea, has been relegated to mop-up duty in the bullpen”
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Multiple sources confirm Sean Manaea was moved from the starting rotation to the bullpen.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Mets shifted Manaea to the bullpen for two games down the stretch last September. This spring, Manaea has been mixing a cutter and more of his sinker this spring to try and keep offenses off-balan…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2026/03/21/ny-mets…
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web search NEUTRAL — Left-hander Sean Manaea is the odd man out in the New York Mets' starting rotation, with manager Carlos Mendoza announcing Saturday that the veteran will begin the season in the bullpen.
https://www.yardbarker.com/mlb/articles/mets_lhp_sean_manaea…
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web search NEUTRAL — Manaea is still expected to make starts for the Mets, per Mendoza. New York has an opening in its bullpen, but the presence of Manaea, a lefty, does not have a bearing on which direction it goes.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7136256/2026/03/21/mets-pit…
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“Christian Scott has pitched to a 4.12 ERA in five starts”
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The search results for 'Christian Scott' returned a musician and unrelated data, not a baseball player's stats.
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web search NEUTRAL — Christian aTunde Adjuah by Christian Scott released in 2012. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/christian-atunde-adjuah-mw000…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prominence is a modpack series which focuses on content for everyone, balance and lots of custom content. This wiki covers the Prominence II RPG version, which aside from its core concept, it has a ve…
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web search NEUTRAL — ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather for the past 8 decades. Data is available from 1940 onwards.
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“Zach Thornton debuted for the team on Wednesday and allowed four earned runs over 4 ¹/₃ innings”
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Multiple sources confirm Zach Thornton debuted on Wednesday and allowed four earned runs over 4 1/3 innings.
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web search NEUTRAL — All told, Thornton allowed four earned runs over 4 1/3 innings, striking out three in his first appearance in the big leagues.
https://www.mlb.com/mets/news/zach-thornton-major-league-deb…
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web search NEUTRAL — Thornton allowed four runs, but 'didn't back down' in loss to Nationals. 5/21/2026, 5:30 AM.While it wasn't a storybook debut, Mets LHP Zach Thornton was able to settle in after a tough first inning a…
https://sny.tv/articles/mets-zach-thornton-reflects-special-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Zach Thornton, who was selected from Triple-A Syracuse to fill a rotation need with Clay Holmes sidelined by a fractured right fibula, allowed four earned runs on four hits and two walks with three st…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/sports/family-moment-that-made…
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“Mark Vientos made a highlight-reel play at first base with a diving stop in the fifth inning that retired CJ Abrams for the final out and prevented the tying run from scoring in the Mets’ 2-1 victory over the Nationals”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm the specific play by Mark Vientos against CJ Abrams.
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“A.J. Minter’s potential last rehab appearance is scheduled for Saturday with Syracuse”
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“The lefty reliever, who had hip discomfort after rehabbing from lat surgery, hasn’t pitched for the Mets since April 2025”
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“Tobias Myers will start Friday’s game in Miami, the team announced”
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