Francisco Lindor is expected to be in the Mets’ lineup on Wednesday after being activated from the injured list. He had been out for more than two months with a strained left calf.
Lindor played eight innings at shortstop and had two hits in five at-bats in his final rehab game on Tuesday with Syracuse. The Mets did not want to push him to play both games of the scheduled doubleheader with the Cubs on Wednesday.
The Mets have been without Juan Soto in the first game of the doubleheader due to back stiffness and have rarely fielded their preferred lineup top-to-bottom due to injuries. “We’ve got to start playing better baseball, win more games consistently. Francisco is a big part of that,” said president of baseball operations David Stearns.
Lindor is batting .226 on the season. Last season, he batted .267 with 31 home runs, 86 RBIs, a .346 on-base percentage, a .466 slugging percentage, a National League-leading 644 at-bats and major league-topping 732 plate appearances in 160 games.
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
