Kodai Senga will start Game 1 of the NLDS for the New York Mets versus the Philadelphia Phillies after starting only one game during the regular season.

Kodai Senga is pitching in Florida, wondering whether he’s wasting his time trying to get healthy for a game that may not exist. The next, Pete Alonso is hitting a game-winning three-run homer in Milwaukee,

Kodai Senga's season has been an almost uninterrupted string of inaction. In the early days of Spring Training, Senga suffered a shoulder injury that was supposed to cost him a month or so. It ended up robbing him of far more time than that,