Offense is quiet once again as Mets fall to Nationals

For the second straight night at Citi Field, the Mets fell to the Nationals in a low scoring affair. Kodai Senga took the mound for the Mets and while he only gave up two runs, he struggled with his command, and was only able to throw 5 innings.

In those 5 innings, Senga walked 4 batters while striking out 7, and allowing two runs. Both runs Senga allowed came in the second inning on an infield single from a Lane Thomas infield single and CJ Abrams base hit.

At the plate, the Mets scored their lone run of the night in the bottom of the third. After an Eduardo Escobar triple, Tomas Nido had an extremely uncompetitive at bat and Brandon Nimmo struck out. This left it to Starling Marte who…