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Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo is being considered day-to-day after an MRI on his left quadriceps muscle came back clean, the team announced.
The 29-year-old left Wednesday’s game in the first inning when felt discomfort in the quad. He said he originally felt it on a slide in the top of the inning, then in the bottom half, he pulled up on a fly ball to center, allowing Jeff McNeil to make the catch instead.
He continued on toward the infield and left the game with an athletic trainer. He noted after the game, though, that he didn’t feel the injury was serious, and he didn’t expect to miss much time if any at all.
“If I catch things early, I feel I heal really fast,” Nimmo said after the game, noting the discomfort was already feeling better.
The team can ill-afford to lose Nimmo with just 11 games left in the season, including a vital series against the Braves next weekend in Atlanta. The team should do all they can to make sure he and Starling Marte, who is still recovering from a broken finger, are healthy and ready for that series. The team is playing just five games over the next eight days (including today), which should help in general with rest for the remainder of the lineup.
Nimmo has been a stalwart at the top of the Mets lineup so far this season. He’s played in 142 of the team’s 151 games, already a career-high. In those games, he’s produced a .264/.360/418/.778 slash line to go along with a 128 wRC+ and 4.7 fWAR. That WAR is third among center fielders behind only Aaron Judge and Julio Rodriguez.
