Mets ace has great comment about starting NLDS Game 1

Kodai Senga offered a great quote on Friday ahead of his big playoff start for the New York Mets.

Senga missed the first four months of the season due to a shoulder injury. He returned in late July and made a start, but he suffered a calf injury that has caused him to be out ever since.

Despite all that, the Mets announced Friday that Senga would be starting Game 1 of their NLDS with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday.

If the Mets are planning to keep Senga on a tight pitch count, the pitcher doesn’t seem to be married to the plan.

“If they say 10 pitches, I’m all-in for 10 pitches. If they say 200, I’m in for 200,” Senga said Friday.

The Mets may not want to overextend Senga in his first start back, so he’ll probably be closer to 10 than 200 pitches. But it’s pretty cool that he is willing to go as long as the team needs him.