Brett Baty was lifted from the Mets loss to the Rays on Sunday within the seventh inning after feeling tightness in his proper groin.
Supervisor Carlos Mendoza described Baty as everyday, saying there are not any X-rays or MRI exams presently scheduled.
“I was going for a foul ball that was flared toward the tarp and I kinda stepped over with my left [foot], kinda backwards, and I just felt a little tightness in my right groin,” Baty stated after the 9-0 defeat.
Ronny Mauricio pinch hit for Baty and performed the final three innings.
The Mets are already lacking Mark Vientos at third base with a hamstring harm, although the 25-year-old is ready to start a rehab task at Triple-A Syracuse on Tuesday.
Baty, who has struggled this yr other than a red-hot Might, was 0-for-2 on Sunday and completed the weekend with only one hit throughout three video games — a house run on Saturday.
“I want to see how it feels tomorrow first,” Baty stated when requested about his concern stage. “I think what we’re gonna do is just take it day by day, ’cause something like this has happened to me in the past. I responded well to treatment and stuff. We’re just gonna see how it feels tomorrow.”
Two years in the past, Baty stated he felt an identical tightness in his left groin after stealing a base, however it was resolved with therapy.
The Mets had been hitless with runners in scoring place on Sunday, persevering with a season-long pattern that noticed them enter Sunday twenty seventh in batting common with runners in scoring place.
“I’m not gonna make too much out of it,” Mendoza stated. “As long as we continue creating traffic, I like our chances with guys at the plate.”
Francisco Lindor was the DH for the primary time this season on Sunday, with Luisangel Acuña coming again into the lineup for the primary time in 10 days at shortstop.
Mendoza stated Lindor’s fractured pinky toe is “getting better” and shouldn’t be a yearlong problem.
“We feel like at some point he’ll heal, he’ll be close to 100 percent,” Mendoza stated.
The Mets will maintain an occasion on Monday to announce a partnership with Cease & Store.
The grocery chain will donate $20,000 and a business fridge to the great pantry at P.S. 045 Clarence Witherspoon as a part of the occasion, which can even embody the Mets Citi Discipline Meals Truck delivering contemporary produce to 100 native households.
