The New York Mets can’t catch a break this season, as All-Star outfielder Yoenis Cespedes has been scratched from Thursday’s lineup against the Colorado Rockies and could be forced to miss multiple games.
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Collins Comments on Cespedes Injury
Thursday, July 28
“Last night he came in when the game was over and said it was starting to bother him pretty bad,” Mets manager Terry Collins said, per Adam Rubin of ESPN.
Cespedes was unable to play in this year’s All-Star Game, despite being voted in as a starter, after he suffered a quad injury against the Washington Nationals on July 8.
Losing Cespedes’ potent bat in the middle of the lineup leaves the Mets scrambling for offense. He leads the team in batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, home runs and RBI, per Baseball-Reference.com.
Runs have been hard to come by for the Mets this year. They are 28th in the league in runs scored, succeeding in large part thanks to a deep pitching staff.
Yet even those power arms have taken a beating, with Matt Harvey out for the season and Noah Syndergaard suffering a “dead arm” in the same game in which Cespedes injured his quad.
It’s been a constant battle for the Mets to stay in the National League East race with the Nationals. Cespedes’ absence will only compound the problems in New York as the team looks to return to the postseason in October.
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