Francisco Alvarez and Jeff McNeil each performed minor league rehab video games Sunday and are as a consequence of be at Citi Area on Monday to be reevaluated.
After that, they’re more likely to proceed to get minor league at-bats earlier than returning to the Mets, in line with Carlos Mendoza.
Alvarez, sidelined since spring coaching with a fractured hamate bone in his left hand, is completed with the medically mandated portion of his rehab task and went 1-for-5 because the DH on Sunday with Double-A Binghamton.
Mendoza mentioned Alvarez may get some at-bats at Triple-A Syracuse to verify his timing is correct on the plate.
McNeil, out with an indirect damage, performed the second of back-to-back video games with Binghamton on Sunday and had 4 hits, together with a homer and a double.
The Mets have been with out each starters since they went down with accidents throughout spring coaching, however they’ve acquired stellar performances from Luis Torrens behind the plate and Luisangel Acuña has been good at second base.
Acuña had two hits in Sunday’s 7-4 win over the Cardinals, extending his hitting streak to eight video games.
“He’s like having one other leadoff man down there [in the lineup],’’ Francisco Lindor mentioned of Acuña, who batted sixth on Sunday and scored an insurance coverage run within the backside of the eighth.
Mark Vientos was unavailable for Sunday’s win after leaving Saturday’s victory with a groin damage, however the third baseman mentioned he was feeling higher and may be capable to come off the bench Monday for the collection opener in opposition to the Phillies.
He expects to get extra remedy Monday and take a look at himself each with swings and at third previous to the sport.
With out Vientos on Sunday, Brett Baty began at third and was held hitless, though he reached base on a catcher’s interference within the fourth.
Lindor celebrated after reaching base on an infield hit within the seventh, a nubber simply in entrance of the plate with one out within the inning.
Requested concerning the response, the switch-hitting shortstop famous it was his first hit from the appropriate aspect of the plate this season.
He had entered the sport 0-for-13 in opposition to lefties.
“They have been throwing a no-hitter in opposition to me from the appropriate aspect,’’ Lindor joked. “Now I don’t have a zero on that aspect. They are saying hits are available in bunches. We’ll see what occurs. A minimum of there’s one on the board.”
Earlier than Brandon Nimmo got here by way of with a key RBI hit Sunday, Mendoza mentioned he was assured the left fielder was going to interrupt out of his current hunch.
“I assumed in some unspecified time in the future on the street journey, he was somewhat too aggressive and going on the market and swinging at quite a lot of first pitches, which is intentional,” Mendoza mentioned. “We went into a few of these video games with a sport plan of attacking the pitching staffs and we didn’t get outcomes as an entire, Nimmo included. However I like the place he’s at, particularly the previous couple of video games …”
Mendoza mentioned Paul Blackburn got here out of his rehab outing with Class-A Brooklyn effective on Saturday. He’s on the 15-day IL with proper knee irritation.
