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Luis Guillorme was put on the 10-day injured list with a strained hamstring ahead of Sunday’s rubber game versus the Reds, the team announced. He was replaced with reliever Geoff Hartlieb, who allowed a run in 1.1 innings against the Reds last week.
The team did not specify how or when Guillorme injured the hamstring, but you can assume it happened during Saturday night’s game. Guillorme pinch ran for Jeff McNeil, who got on in the ninth inning via a walk. They ran for McNeil for precautionary reasons after McNeil had experienced leg fatigue last week. Guillorme made it to second on a passed ball, then he sprinted home on Dominic Smith‘s game-tying single with two outs.
Guillorme had been the primary fill-in for Francisco Lindor, who went down with an oblique injury–the same kind of injury that forced Guillorme to miss a month earlier in the season. With the acquisition of Javier Baez, though, Guillorme was likely going to return to his defensive replacement/utility man role from pre-Lindor injury.
Guillorme has slashed .293/.406/.345/.751 this season with a 116 wRC+. He’s been the best bench bat the Mets have had, and he’s the best defensive infield replacement on the team.
The Mets did not say the severity of the injury, nor how long it’d take for Guillorme to return.
In other hamstring injury news, the team hopes they can keep Brandon Nimmo, who tweaked his hamstring Friday and has been out of the lineup Saturday and Sunday, off the injured list and have him starting game in the next day or two.
