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No sooner did the struggling New York Mets get one star player back than another went down with a similar injury.
Francisco Lindor was sidelined Wednesday night against the Minnesota Twins with left calf tightness, 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 up the right-center alley in the fourth inning. The switch-hitting shortstop grimaced as he rounded third and paused by the seat of his pants after beating the relay with a foot-first slide.
Lindor walked down 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 over from third base to shortstop.
Batting cleanup, Lindor knocked in a run when he leg out an infield single with two outs in the first. Moments earlier, he made an exceptional leaping grab at shortstop for the second out.
With the Mets on a 12-game losing streak, Soto was reinstated from the 10-day IL earlier in the day. The slugging outfielder had been sidelined since straining his right calf while running from first to third on April 3 in San Francisco.
Report from the Associated Press.
