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No sooner did the struggling New York Mets get one star player back than another suffered a similar injury.
Francisco Lindor was scratched Wednesday night against the Minnesota Twins due to left calf tightness, just hours after teammate Juan Soto was removed from the injured list.
Lindor worked around the bases while scoring from first on Francisco Alvarez’s one-out double to the right-center alley in the fourth inning. The switch-hitting shortstop grimaced as he rounded third and came off a bit by the seat of his pants after beating the throw with a feet-first slide.
Lindor headed to the dugout tunnel with an athletic trainer and was replaced in the lineup by Brett Baty, who entered at third base in the top of the fifth. Bo Bichette slid from third base to shortstop.
Cleaning up at the plate, Lindor got a run when he hit an infield single with two outs in the first. Moments earlier, he made an exceptional jumper to shortstop for the second out of the game.
With the Mets on a 12-game losing streak, Soto was reinstated from the IL 10 days earlier today. The outfielder had been sidelined since he strained his right calf while running from first to third on April 3 in San Francisco.
Associated Press reporting.
