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The Mets managed to blast three home runs in their 11-6 loss Athletics, but they couldn’t overcome an early deficit and their recent skid is now up to four games.

Kodai Senga got the start and had the worst start of his young season so far. After the Mets had jumped out to an early 1-0 lead, Senga gave it right back when he gave up two runs in the second. The wheels really came off in the third when Senga gave up a two-run shot to Tyler Soderstrom and then a three-run home run to Carlos Cortes later in that same inning. Cortes’s home run ended Senga’s outing after just 2.1 innings pitched. Senga certainly did not have it on the mound, but he was not helped by his defense either. Francisco Lindor did not cover second on a potential double play ball, Marcus Semien and Mark Vientos both allowed infield hits, and Francisco Alvarez allowed a passed ball.

After Senga’s departure Huascar Brazobán, Brooks Raley, and the newly recalled Craig Kimbrel allowed the team to get back into it. Brazobán especially did the heavy lifting pitching 2.2 innings and settling things down at 7-1. The team started to chip away by hitting home runs in three straight innings. First it was Bo Bichette with a two-run home run, and then Francisco Alvarez and Jorge Polanco followed with solo home runs of their own. Brett Baty also added a sacrifice fly in the sixth and, after seven innings, the Mets pulled to within one. They did get runners on first and second after Polanco’s home run in the seventh but two fly outs by Carson Benge and Marcus Semien ended the rally.

Any hope of the team coming back ended in the top of the eighth when Luke Weaver gave up four backbreaking runs with two-outs. After a good start to the season, Weaver has struggled in his last two appearances. Thi is especially concerning given the state of the rotation right now. David Peterson and Kodai Senga struggled in their appearances and Clay Holmes was lifted with an injury in his last start, so the last thing this team needs is an unreliable bullpen.

Absolutely nothing is going right for the Mets right now, but at least the offense finally showed up. Hopefully they can continue hitting the ball in a winning effort sooner rather than later, since they are now under .500 for the season.

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Win Probability Added

Big Mets winner: Bo Bichette, +24% WPA
Big Mets loser: Kodai Senga, -45.0% WPA
Mets pitchers: -62% WPA
Mets hitters: +12% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Jorge Polanco’s home run in seventh, +14.5% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Shea Langeliers’s RBI single in the eighth inning, -12.0% WPA

Usually an offensive explosion to the tune of nine runs involves a lot of running, or at least jogging, around the bases. But I was fine with the Mariners walking around the bases instead last night. Tonight, they’ll have a trickier task. At least theoretically. Lance McCullers is scheduled to start for Houston, but given his injury history, I’ll believe it when I see it. Houston better hope he does start though because the state of the Astros pitching is like, a whole thing right now:

• Tatsuya Imai is headed to Houston for medical evaluation of a “tired arm”
• JP France was sent back to Sugar Land
• Jayden Murray was recalled to take his place

The Mariners will turn to Luis Castillo, who’s looking every bit like himself through his first two starts, though with a lot of bad BABIP luck in his last start. He keeps dialing up his four-seamer and slider useage and dialing down his sinker and changeup. That’s giving him more strikeouts but also making him more prone to damage when guys connect. It’s a recipe for looking pretty good when pitching at T-Mobile Park in April though.

Lineups

Another day off for Brendan Donovan while he recovers from the bug means another day of J.P. Crawford at the top of the lineup, which I always find aesthetically pleasing.

A bit of a shuffle from yesterday’s lineup for Houston. Regular catcher Yainer Diaz is back in there. Jose Altuve heads back into the field, so Yordan Àlvarez can DH. That shifts Isaac Peredes off of second base, and creates a spot in the outfield for Taylor Trammell. Basically this was a lot of shuffling to give the Astro’s two Christians the day off, which maybe should have happened this past Sunday instead.

Game Info

First Pitch: 6:40 PDT
TV: Mariners TV
Radio: Old Reliable

LOS ANGELES — Blake Snell pitched a simulated inning on Saturday afternoon at Dodger Stadium, facing hitters for the first time this year, the latest step in his rehab from starting the season on the sideline with shoulder fatigue.

Snell threw about 15 pitches on Saturday, facing Tommy Edman (the switch-hitter batted both right-handed and left-handed) and Alex Call on the field about four hours before the scheduled first pitch of the Dodgers’ game against the Texas Rangers.

After an offseason of mostly resting his arm, Snell was well behind during spring training, such that he didn’t even throw a bullpen session until March 12. He’s been throwing off and on since, but Saturday was his first time facing hitters.

“I’m very excited about how I feel, where I’m at. Getting back to some normalcy again feels really good,” Snell said Saturday. “Throwing bullpens, not facing hitters, it’s tough to stay locked in.”

This is essentially the early part of spring training for Snell, who is expected to face hitters in a two-inning simulated outing at some point next week. Manager Dave Roberts said Saturday that he wasn’t sure if Snell would need two or three more such outings before going on a minor league rehab assignment.

“This one for me, personally, is just an exercise. I’m not really looking for command, to be quite honest,” Roberts said. “Just getting out there, competing against hitters, and just trying to get through the, call it 20-pitch exercise.”

Roberts on the last homestand targeted roughly the end of May for Snell’s potential return to the Dodgers rotation, and Saturday’s simulated inning falls in line with that plan. Let’s assume at minimum, Snell would have two more simulated outings followed by three minor league starts, with five days rest in between each one. That would put his last rehab start 30 days from now, on May 11, with his potential return to the Dodgers another six or seven days after that. Adding in a fourth rehab start would push his return into the final week of May.

The Dodgers have shown patience with the top of their rotation before, like last season when Snell missed nearly four months on the injured list before returning for the last two months of the regular season and all postseason. Same for Tyler Glasnow, who missed over two months before returning to the rotation last July.

Take Saturday for what it was, a positive next step for Snell.

“I talked to him yesterday a little bit in the dugout, and he’s getting antsy,” Roberts said. “But I think he’s just excited because he feels strong, he feels healthy. He’s been working on his diet and stuff, so he’s in a good spot.”

Dodgers fan favorite Justin Turner is continuing his professional baseball career, and it’s south of the border.

Turner, who joined the Dodgers in 2014 and played nine seasons with the franchise, has signed with the Tijuana Toros of the Mexican League, according to AM 570’s David Vassegh.

In his time with the Dodgers, Turner made two All-Star appearances and was part of the 2020 World Series-winning club. 

Source confirms Justin Turner has signed to play with Tijuana Toros in Mexican League. #Dodgers Teammates used to refer to JT as "Rojo Chingon” pic.twitter.com/RWDHvyFQ6g

— David Vassegh (@THEREAL_DV) April 11, 2026

He played last season with the Cubs, hitting .219 with three home runs in 169 at-bats, before becoming a free agent.

Turner, who was born in Long Beach, hit at least 27 home runs in a season three times with the Dodgers: 2016, 2019 and 2021. 

Besides the Dodgers and Cubs, Turner also played for the Orioles, Mets, Red Sox, Blue Jays and Mariners. 

In 2017, Turner smashed a three-run, walk-off home run in the NLCS against the Cubs and was the series MVP. Turner, who made his MLB debut on Sept. 8, 2009, with the Orioles, has 201 home runs and batted .283.

When he met with the media in November, Turner talked about his long-range plan.

“I mean, I think it’s pretty obvious that the biggest chunk of my career came in LA with those nine years. The turning point in my career came when I put the Dodgers uniform on. The one title I won was with the Dodgers. That’s definitely, I think, I don’t even want to get down to that yet, but it’s probably a slam dunk that [retiring with the Dodgers on a one-day contract] will happen that way. I don’t know, we’ll see what happens. If there was one [franchise to retire with], I think the obvious one would be the Dodgers.”

The Dodgers on Sunday afternoon finish off their series against the Texas Rangers, with Roki Sasaki making his third start of the season.

Jacob deGrom takes the ball for Texas in the series finale.

The Dodgers have only lost one series to the Rangers over the last decade, going 15-6 in their previous 21 matchups, dating from 2015 through Friday night.

Sunday game info

• Teams: Dodgers vs. Rangers
• Ballpark: Dodger Stadium
• Time: 1:10 p.m.
• TV: SportsNet LA, MLB Network (out of market)
• Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)

Since the start of spring training, Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell has faced nothing but questions about his lingering shoulder injury.

This even includes his Twitch video-game streams –– where one of his recent exchanges with a commenter went viral on social media this week.

When told by the user to “get off the injured list,” Snell answered by sarcastically tapping the body part that has sidelined him for the start of the season.

“Hey, shoulder,” Snell said. “Don’t have inflammation. Don’t pitch in the postseason, when your shoulder didn’t feel good. Don’t try to win a World Series. Oh, you can’t start the season because your shoulder still hurts from pitching?”

Do NOT question Blake Snell’s injury pic.twitter.com/jW0fj1Hqsi

— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) April 11, 2026

“What the f— you want me to do?” he added.

If that was a moment of frustration for the two-time Cy Young Award winner, then Saturday afternoon brought a long-awaited reprieve.

For the first time this season, Snell faced hitters in a session of live batting practice. It was only 15 pitches over one simulated inning, but it served as an important milepost in his recovery nonetheless. 

“I was looking forward to it a lot,” Snell said afterward. “I was very excited coming to the field today. Like, I finally get to throw and pitch and see where I’m at. See if I’m good, bad. Kind of figure myself out.”

Snell has done much self-reflection this offseason, making changes to his training program (hello, Pilates) and his diet (goodbye, junk food) as he enters his 11th big-league season.

The one thing that required patience, however, was his fatigued left shoulder –– which gave him pain all winter following his 34-inning workload in the playoffs.

“He’s getting antsy,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “But I think that he’s just excited because he feels strong, he feels healthy.”

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Indeed, Snell has felt his shoulder improving since early in camp. However, after the way his debut season with the Dodgers started last year –– when the $182 million free-agent signing tried pitching through early-season shoulder discomfort, only to spend four months on the IL –– he and the team opted for a more conservative approach.

The hope now is that Snell will start accelerating his ramp-up. On Saturday, the left-hander’s stuff looked sharp, helping him record outs in three straight at-bats against Tommy Edman (who is working through his own elongated rehab process) and Alex Call. 

Snell will likely toss several more live BP sessions to build up to three to four innings, then go out on a minor-league rehab assignment. 

If all goes well, he could be back in the majors before the end of May. After making only 11 regular-season starts last year, he could still potentially double that total this term.

“I’ve done a lot of different things than I did last year when I was in this position,” he said. “I’m just very excited about how I feel right now, where I’m at, getting back to some normalcy again.”

Snell was also light-heartedly pressed on his Twitch interaction Saturday, joking that “I should watch my language a little bit, but outside of that it was pretty true.”

Asked if his shoulder is a good listener, Snell laughed again –– hopeful that, before too long, all shoulder-related questions, both in-person and online, will finally cease.

“I think so,” he said. “I’ve been listening to it, so to finally be able to talk [with today’s outing] back was good.”

The Cincinnati Reds dropped the final two games of their most recent road trip as the Miami Marlins put it to them pretty heavily. Then, on Friday, the Los Angeles Angels came into Great American Ball Park and knocked around Chase Burns en route to a 10-2 win over the good guys.

The Reds offense was sputtering. Their pitching, already held together by a series of unproven arms as Hunter Greene and Nick Lodolo sit on the injured list, was wilting. If ever there were a time for a team’s star to put the club on his back and show them how it’s done, it was Saturday, and fortunately for Cincinnati they’ve got Elly De La Cruz on whom to lean.

Elly went 3 for 4 with a pair of doubles and a walk, swiped a pair of bases, and scored to power the Reds offense, who pounced on Angels starter George Klassen for a 4-spot in the Bottom of the 1st en route to an eventual 7-3 victory.

Elly gets Joe Nuxhall Memorial Honorary Star of the Game treatment in this one, but it was actually Nathaniel Lowe who broke the game open initially. His bases-loaded double cleared the bags in that big 1st inning, as he rewarded manager Terry Francona for giving him a rare start in this one.

Other Notes

• Brandon Williamson got the start in this one and had a hard time finding the plate. He walked 6 batters and needed 93 pitches to get through just 4.0 IP, though he did limit the damage to just 3 ER while on the mound.
• Props to the bullpen, who combined to go the rest of the way with nothing but zeroes. Connor Phillips, Pierce Johnson, Graham Ashcraft, Tony Santillan, and Emilio Pagan got work in today – and that’s what the best of the bullpen theoretically lines up like when all are available.
• Spencer Steer smacked a homer off the LF foul pole in this one, his second dinger of the year.
• Sal Stewart got a rare start at 2B today with Lowe starting at 1B. Ol’ Sal walked twice and singled in a run in the 1st.
• Ke’Bryan Hayes went hitless once again. He’s hitting .079/.146/.079 on the season so far and I truly don’t know how the Reds keep playing him all game, most every game.

Texas Rangers @ Los Angeles Dodgers

Saturday, April 11, 2026, 8:10 PM CDT (105.3 The Fan / Rangers Sports Network)

UNIQLO Field at Dodger Stadium

RHP Jack Leiter vs. RHP Emmet Sheehan

Go Rangers!

Kodai Senga had a throwback performance Saturday, but not in a positive sense.

In a reversion to the second half of last season, when the right-hander became easy work for opponents, Senga got jumped early by the A’s and couldn’t even last three innings.

Sloppy defense didn’t help and Luke Weaver imploded late, but this one was mostly on Senga in his team’s 11-6 loss at Citi Field amid plenty of boos that gave the Mets a four-game losing streak.

The Mets awoke offensively after three straight dormant games but never caught the A’s following Senga’s ugly abbreviated outing. Senga smacked his right leg in disgust with his glove as he walked toward the dugout after his removal in the third inning.

“The biggest thing was I wasn’t able to control very many pitches near the strike zone or over the plate,” Senga said through his interpreter.

Senga lasted only 2 ¹/₃ innings, surrendering seven earned runs on eight hits and two walks with three strikeouts before being removed at 72 pitches. It was a reversal from what the Mets had seen from Senga in his first two starts this season, when he was effective against the Cardinals and Giants.

“He didn’t have much, especially fastball command,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “He kept going to that sinker, just to see if he could get back in counts or get strikes, but he just didn’t have a feel for his pitches.”

Bo Bichette ended the Mets’ scoreless drought at 17 innings with an RBI single in the first against lefty Jacob Lopez, giving the Mets a 1-0 lead.

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Senga walked Denzel Clarke with the bases loaded in the second to give the A’s their first run. Lawrence Butler’s RBI fielder’s choice extended the lead to 2-1.

Senga’s troubles started with consecutive singles by Jacob Wilson and Jeff McNeil to begin the inning before Carlos Cortes walked with one out to load the bases.

Francisco Lindor had a defensive lapse in the inning — he was caught out of position on a grounder to Marcus Semien, costing the Mets a shot at a double play on Butler’s grounder that could have ended the inning. Semien instead ran to the base after fielding the grounder.

“I went after the ball and Marcus was there and didn’t make it to second base and we didn’t turn the double play,” Lindor said.

It continued a rough stretch for Lindor in all facets of the game — he’s batting only .167 following a 1-for-5 performance. He’s also had lapses on the bases, most recently Friday when he got caught off third base on a grounder.

“I feel like I’m locked in,” Lindor said. “I feel like I’m in the game and it just happens. I have got to be better.”

Tyler Soderstrom smashed a two-run homer against Senga in the third, following Shea Langeliers’ leadoff double. The blast was the first Senga had allowed this season.

The A’s started a second rally in the inning. Wilson singled — a ball that Semien missed with a bare hand — and McNeil hit a grounder off Mark Vientos’ glove for a single.

Cortes delivered the knockout blow to Senga with a three-run homer that buried the Mets in a 7-1 hole.

“It’s tough having back-to-back innings with high pitch counts,” Senga said. “But not every outing is going to be smooth sailing. Some outings are going to be tough. In a long season stuff like this is going to happen, so I want to reflect on this over the time before I go back out there, to make sure it doesn’t happen again or it’s better next time.”

Bichette’s first Mets homer cut the deficit.

With Lindor aboard, Bichette hit a shot to right that just cleared the right-field fence. The two-run homer gave Bichette a team-leading nine RBIs.

Francisco Alvarez’s blast leading off the bottom of the sixth sliced the Mets’ deficit to 7-4. The homer was Alvarez’s team-leading fourth this season. Before the inning was complete, Carson Benge scored the Mets’ fifth run. Benge walked and scored on Brett Baty’s sacrifice fly following Semien’s single.

Jorge Polanco homered an inning later to pull the Mets within one run. The Mets put the tying and go-ahead runs on base before the inning was complete, but Benge and Semien were retired in succession to end the threat.

Weaver’s second straight rough performance sank the Mets in the eighth. Weaver surrendered a three-run blast to Soderstrom after Langeliers’ RBI single gave the A’s a two-run lead.

This game had three highlights:

1. Erick Fedde’s start.
2. Tanner Murray’s first major league hit.
3. It was over in an hour and 56 minutes.

Fedde pitched a fine game today. Michael Wacha pitched a better one.

Fedde made one mistake, starting the game after a short rain delay with a get-me-over first pitch to settle in, a pitch Maikel García deposited 412 feet away. Well, two mistakes, the other being a case of chronic White Sox pitcher inefficiency that made him leave the game after five innings and 85 pitches, 53 of them strikes.

Part of the inefficiency came in the second inning, when a walk, an infield single and a hit batter loaded the bases, but García grounded out to end the only time the Royals had a runner in scoring position against him. Otherwise, Fedde walked no one else and only gave up one more hit.

Small problem, though — if Fedde was lights barely visible, Wacha was lights fully out. In the first inning, he threw 11 pitches, all of them strikes, and then tossed six more strikes to start the second. He was as efficient as Fedde wasn’t, cruising through eight innings on just 88 pitches, 63 of them strikes.

Wacha did allow the Sox offense four hits, doubles to Andrew Benintendi (raising his average to .184) and Lenyn Sosa (raising his to .179) and singles to Reese McGuire (now hitting a hearty .125) and Murray, who got his first-ever big league hit on a grounder up the middle:

And the Sox only struck out eight times in the game, so that’s some form of progress.

Sean Newcomb did a nifty six-up, six-down in relief, but then the Royals added a run off Jordan Hicks in the eighth on a García double and two fly balls. That was totally unnecessary against the Sox, who now have scored eight runs in their last six games, with seven straight games of three runs or fewer and 11 such games of the 15 this year.

The White Sox are now 5-10 on the young year — a 54-win pace, in case you’re keeping track. The finale in KC is at 1:10 p.m. Central tomorrow, with the Sox going with the famous “undecided” (as opposed to the equally famous TBA or TBD), as it would be Shane Smith’s turn in the rotation and Smith is enjoying Charlotte.

Colorado Rockies (6-8) at San Diego Padres (8-6), April 11, 2026, 5:40 p.m. PST

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Location: Petco Park – San Diego, Calif.

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The Colorado Rockies will try to limit the damage after two straight walk-off losses to the San Diego Padres.

In good news, the starting pitching has been stellar and both games have been competitive throughout. Thursday, Jimmy Herget opened with a 1-2-3 inning, paving the way for Chase Dollander to take a bulk of the game, with that approach still working nicely for the youngster’s development. Yesterday, Tomoyuki Sugano worked through six innings and looked sharp outside of a couple solo homers surrendered in the fifth.

For the bad news, the fight fell short at the hands of an electric 12th-inning grand slam on Thursday and a three-run shot in the bottom of the ninth yesterday (seriously, Padres… a calm walk-off RBI single wouldn’t have been enough for you?).

The blueprint for a win is there as the Rockies have looked sharp out in Petco Park. A series split is still on the table, but that begins with a solid pitching battle today, as Ryan Feltner takes the mound for the Rox against old friend Germán Márquez.

The two pitchers have had an extremely similar start to their 2026 season. Márquez (1-1) and Feltner (1-0) have both notched one win across two starts, have pitched 8.0 and 8.1 innings respectively, and have each given up four runs and tossed five strikeouts. Feltner has been a tad more efficient, giving up just four hits to Márquez’s 14 and giving up just one home run to Márquez’s two.

It will surely feel surreal to see Márquez in his first action against his old club after a 10-year career in purple. Márquez made some waves when signing with San Diego, stating that he was “excited to play with a team that wants to win,” and lamenting that “when [he] was young, [he] had a team that liked to win,” taking a shot at the downward trajectory of the Rockies in his time with the team.

It may also be surreal, then, for Márquez to face off against this scrappy, new-look Colorado club. While it’s probably far too early for bulletin board material — and while there is much to be seen about where these teams ultimately end up this season — it could make for a nice statement if the Rockies can turn the tides of the series today against a franchise mainstay that has moved on.

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The Mets lost to the Athletics, 11-6, at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon and dropped their fourth straight.

Here are the takeaways...

-- It was not a good day at the office for Kodai Senga, who lasted just 2.1 innings after allowing seven earned runs on eight hits, including two home runs -- the second of which came on the last pitch he threw, which resulted in a three-run homer that gave the Athletics a 7-1 lead. In that same inning, Senga allowed a leadoff double, a two-run homer, and two singles before the second blast of the inning, all of which resulted in five runs.

It was the first time in Senga's career (55 starts) that the right-hander allowed a three-run home run (he has yet to allow a grand slam) and the first time he's allowed seven earned runs or more in a game.

-- Senga's command was also off. Not only did he walk two in his abbreviated outing, including one with the bases loaded to even up the score at 1-1, but he was also only able to throw a first-pitch strike to five of the 17 batters he faced. Of the 72 pitches he threw, 40 were strikes. 

Following the disastrous outing, Senga's ERA climbed to 7.07 in the early season.

-- New York got on the board first, scoring a run in the bottom half of the opening inning. Luis Robert Jr. singled, advanced to second on a groundout and crossed home plate on Bo Bichette's RBI single off Jacob Lopez to take a 1-0 lead. That lead vanished in the second inning, though, with the A's scoring twice with the second run scoring on a ground ball to second base that could've been an inning-ending double play had Francisco Lindor covered the bag instead of going for the ball.

-- The score was held to 7-1 thanks to Huascar Brazoban's 2.2 innings of scoreless relief that kept his 0.00 ERA intact. It also gave the Mets a chance to fight back, which they did in the fifth inning, scoring twice on Bichette's opposite-field, two-run shot -- his first home run as a Met. After a slow start, Bichette has kicked it into gear and is hitting .254 after his 2-for-3 day that included two walks.

-- After Brooks Raley kept the Athletics off the board in his inning of relief (also to keep his scoreless streak to start the season alive), New York was back at it offensively in the sixth. Francisco Alvarez led off the inning with a solo home run to straightaway center field that was initially ruled a double but overturned to a homer and got the Mets closer, 7-4. 

A walk and a single put runners at the corners with nobody out and Brett Baty came through with a sacrifice fly to get the Mets to within two. An inning later, they cut the deficit to one on Jorge Polanco's first home run as a Met that snuck over the wall in right field. It was New York's third home run in three straight innings.

-- What felt like a potential incredible Mets comeback brewing came crashing down in the eighth inning after Luke Weaver entered the game and allowed four runs, all with two outs. The big hit came on Tyler Soderstrom's three-run blast that went 420 feet to right-center field and gave the A's an 11-6 advantage. It was Soderstrom's second home run of the game after he took Senga deep for a two-run shot in the third.

New York went quietly in the eighth and ninth innings and dropped its fourth straight game, after a four-game winning streak, to go below .500 once again.

-- Following his promotion back to the major leagues earlier in the day, Craig Kimbrel made his debut for the Mets and pitched a clean seventh inning that included two strikeouts. The former All-Star closer needed just 10 pitches and threw nine strikes.

-- Still trying to find his footing in the big leagues, Carson Benge had an up-and-down game. The rookie went 1-for-3 at the plate with a walk, a run scored and a stolen base but added an error in left field on the first batter of the game.

-- Every starter in the lineup except Mark Vientos had at least one hit. After an exceptionally hot road trip, Vientos has cooled off and has gone hitless during this homestand (0-for-15).

Game MVP: Tyler Soderstrom

In a game in which the A's scored 11 runs on 15 hits, Soderstrom stood out the most with his 3-for-5 and two-homer performance out of the cleanup spot.

Highlights

Kodai Senga gets out of trouble in the first pic.twitter.com/nobjHeW8wq

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 11, 2026

Bo Bichette ends the Mets' 17-inning scoreless streak with an RBI single! pic.twitter.com/2Vps6kj5hi

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 11, 2026

Bo Bichette's first home run as a Met! pic.twitter.com/oDQpEVapUg

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 11, 2026

After review... HOME RUN FRANCISCO ALVAREZ! pic.twitter.com/aK7lsgGk7Q

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 11, 2026

A scoreless inning for Craig Kimbrel in his Mets debut! pic.twitter.com/Rd6ev1BgVb

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 11, 2026

IT'S A ONE-RUN GAME!

Jorge Polanco's first Mets home run! pic.twitter.com/L0WxBVMbgY

— SNY (@SNYtv) April 11, 2026

What's next

The Mets play the finale of their three-game series with the Athletics on Sunday, with first pitch scheduled for 1:40 p.m.

RHP Freddy Peralta (1-0, 4.80 ERA) goes up against RHP Aaron Civale (1-0, 2.70 ERA).

Kade Anderson’s Double-A debut on April 3 went well enough: four innings, no runs, five hits, six strikeouts and a walk. The five hits he gave up were all singles, and two of those didn’t even leave the infield. But Anderson outdid himself in his second outing against Wichita Friday night. Anderson tossed five innings of no-hit ball while recording 11 strikeouts.

It wasn’t necessarily the cleanest start for Anderson, who opened his night striking out the first hitter he saw on three pitches but then walked the next hitter he saw on four straight. But Anderson dialed it in for his next hitter, breaking off a nasty curve for his second strikeout of the inning en route to what would be 11 on the night.

Anderson sat 93-96 with his heater, riding it up in the zone for swinging strikes, and locking up hitters on the curveball for called strikes after peppering the top of the zone with the four-seamer. He worked quickly and efficiently, pounding the zone with 69% strikes (nice), and dominated the Wichita lineup. The only black mark on Anderson’s ledger was the two walks, first the four-pitch walk in the first and another in the third inning where he missed just inside in a 3-2 count and reacted like he’d just given up a go-ahead homer in the World Series:

(Kade. Buddy. We simply cannot get this wrapped around the axle about a singular, isolated walk in the second start of the season. I know you are the ultimate competitor but you’ve gotta give yourself some room to make a mistake once in a while, Kade.)

He came back to strike out the next hitter looking at the curve, (strikeout six) and the hitter after that (number seven) on a fastball up at 95 after he’d just had him flailing over the changeup. Here’s a look at the change:

What really stood out about Anderson’s outing was his pinpoint command of the zone, walks aside – and when the rare unfavorable (2-0, 3-0) count happened, it felt like Anderson was able to pull himself back into the zone (perhaps explaining his frustration with the second walk). It was Anderson’s zone, and the Wichita hitters were just trying to survive in it; five of his eleven strikeouts were on called strike threes.

That’s not to say Anderson was without whiffs though; his 14 whiffs ranked fifth in all of Double-A yesterday, although by percentage he ranked third at the level, behind Gage Stanifer (TOR) and Miguel Mendez (SDP). He was especially fired up on this three-pitch strikeout where he got the hitter hacking after a nasty curve.

For only his second outing of the season, there’s a lot to like about this start from Anderson: the pitch mix and command were as advertised, the stuff looks primed to rack up whiffs and called strikes, and Anderson’s competitive mound presence was on display even in an early-season game. Next up for Anderson, aside from building volume and working deeper into games, is to continue refining his pitch mix – he didn’t mix in his slider very often, although with the other three pitches working, he didn’t really need it – and continue to dial in his command, not allowing those 3-0 or 4-0 lapses to happen. Progress in the minor leagues is never perfectly linear and there will be bumps in the road for even the hyper-polished LSU product, but Anderson starts are quickly becoming must-see-MiLB TV.

Christian Walker is not in the Astros starting lineup tonight. He appears to tweak something in last night’s game:

This was something listed in today’s Crawfish Boil as a situation to watch.

Walker did attempt to get ready to play tonight:

Through 14 games and 53 AB, Walker is batting .321 with a .390 OBP and .994 OPS. He leads the team with 17 hits and 6 doubles. He is tied for the team lead in RBI with 13.

Isaac Paredes is starting at 1B and batting 3rd.