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Mets outfielder Brett Baty missed Sunday’s game against the Giants with a sore thumb. <\/p>\n
The injury bug continues to bite the New York Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brett Baty<\/a> was scratched before Sunday\u2019s game against the San Francisco Giants<\/a> with a sore left thumb. It\u2019s the second injury suffered by a Mets outfielder in the four-game series, with Juan Soto<\/a> leaving Friday\u2019s 10-3 win<\/a> with a strained calf.<\/p>\n Fortunately for the Mets, manager Carlos Mendoza said the club isn\u2019t overly concerned about Baty\u2019s health. The utility man jammed his thumb<\/a> on a slide into second base following a seventh-inning double in Saturday\u2019s 9-0 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cLast night on that head-first slide at second base, he jammed that left thumb,\u201d Mendoza said, via SNY<\/a>. \u201cHe was able to finish the game, little sore afterwards. And then this morning, basically the same. We\u2019re just trying to be smart about it, and that\u2019s why he came out of the lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Baty Was Late Scratch From Mets Lineup<\/p>\n The Mets\u2019 original lineup had Baty starting in right field, with rookie Carson Benge<\/a> in left and Luis Robert Jr.<\/a> in center. Instead, Jared Young<\/a> played left while Benge manned right.<\/p>\n Baty was available off the bench, though the Mets did not wind up needing him. New York used a four-run eighth inning, keyed by a pinch-hit two-run single by Luis Torrens<\/a>, to beat San Francisco 5-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n The former third baseman has been slow to get going at the plate, slashing .242\/.242\/.364 with four RBI and one stolen base through eight games.<\/p>\n The Mets (6-4) hope to have Baty back in the lineup when they return home on Tuesday to host the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Mets Expect Baty to Return on Tuesday<\/p>\n Baty previously had surgery to repair a UCL tear in his right thumb, which caused him to miss the end of the 2022 season.<\/p>\n As for Baty\u2019s latest injury, the club isn\u2019t planning on conducting any tests.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter talking to him, he\u2019s probably a day or two (away),\u201d Mendoza said. \u201cShould be good to go on Tuesday. We\u2019re not planning on doing any imaging or anything like that, he\u2019s just day-to-day.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s encouraging news for the Mets, who are already without Soto. First baseman\/designated hitter Jorge Polanco<\/a> (sore Achilles) has also missed time of late.<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tDouglas Bonjour<\/a> is a breaking news contributor covering the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB and WNBA for Heavy. He is also a contributing writer for The Associated Press and has worked for Point Spreads, the Connecticut Post and Hearst Connecticut Media as a reporter and editor. More about Douglas Bonjour<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Mets\n\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Mets outfielder Brett Baty missed Sunday’s game against the Giants with a sore thumb. The injury bug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[5,101,4,1690,61,2548,4203],"class_list":{"0":"post-665564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-mets","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mets","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-mets","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkmets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116355069204016236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}