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No sooner had the struggling New York Mets gotten back a star player than another suffered a similar injury.
Francisco Lindor was pulled Wednesday night against the Minnesota Twins with tightness in his left calf, just hours after teammate Juan Soto came off the injured list.
Lindor worked around the bases while scoring from first on Francisco Alvarez’s one-out double to right-center in the fourth inning. The switch-hitting shortstop grimaced as he rounded third and paused for a moment from the seat of his pants after overcoming the relay 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 moved into third base in the top of the fifth. Bo Bichette slid from third base to shortstop.
In the batting cleanup, Lindor drove in a run when he hit an infield single with two outs in the first. Moments earlier, he made an excellent jump at shortstop for the second out of the game.
With the Mets on a 12-game losing streak, Soto was reinstated from the 10-day injured list later that day. The slugging outfielder had been sidelined since injuring his right calf while running from first to third on April 3 in San Francisco.
Associated Press information.
