The appropriate-hander was recognized with a Grade 1 pressure in his proper hamstring — the bottom degree of severity — and is anticipated to be re-evaluated earlier than the top of the month, supervisor Carlos Mendoza mentioned.
“We’re looking at probably two weeks, 14 days, before we re-evaluate again,” Mendoza mentioned after Friday’s 7-5 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. “Hopefully he’s symptom-free and we’ll get him back up again.”
Senga landed on the 15-day injured checklist Friday, a day after suffered the harm whereas overlaying first base within the sixth inning of a 4-3 win over the Washington Nationals.
Throughout that bang-bang play, Senga ran to the bottom, leapt for a excessive throw from Pete Alonso and stepped on the bag earlier than grabbing his proper hamstring and dropping to the bottom. Senga’s translator instructed Alonso the right-hander felt a pull in his hamstring on the step earlier than the throw.
Senga underwent an MRI on Friday.
“It depends on the player,” Mendoza mentioned of Senga’s restoration time. “It’s two weeks of very little physical activity. Hopefully — I’ve got to get with the trainers — we keep the arm going, but he’s got to be symptom-free before we start ramping him up. So it could be four, five, six [weeks].”
Senga, 32, boasts a team-best 1.47 ERA via 13 begins. He’s 7-3 with 70 strikeouts in 73.2 innings.
It’s been a bounce-back season for the Japanese right-hander, who missed all however one begin in the course of the 2024 common season as a result of shoulder and calf strains.
Senga was recognized with the shoulder harm throughout that 12 months’s spring coaching, and he was briefly shut down once more that Might after experiencing nerve irritation in his triceps.
“We’ve got some really good trainers and a good system in place, and now that we went through [that] with the athlete, with Senga, I’m pretty confident [in] the communication, the feedback,” Mendoza mentioned. “We’ll continue to listen to him. He’s very meticulous about what he does. … I’m not anticipating issues here.”
The scene in Thursday’s recreation was harking back to Senga’s lone regular-season begin final 12 months, when the right-hander injured his calf throughout his debut in July, leaving him writhing in ache.
Paul Blackburn, who surrendered 4 runs in a 3rd of an inning Friday, is anticipated to start out Wednesday in Senga’s place.
Beginning pitchers Frankie Montas (lat) and Sean Manaea (indirect) are each in the course of rehab assignments and nearing their season debuts.
