The New York Mets spent most of the last three weeks learning they didn’t like life without Juan Soto.
Now the team hopes it won’t find out about life without Francisco Lindor.
With their 12-game losing streak finally over, the Mets likely will learn Lindor’s status on Thursday before they host the Minnesota Twins in the finale of a three-game interleague series.
Christian Scott is expected to make his season debut for the Mets against fellow right-hander Joe Ryan (2-2, 3.29 ERA).
The Mets snapped their long skid Wednesday night after Mark Vientos delivered a tie-breaking bloop RBI single in the eighth inning of a 3-2 victory.
But the win may have been costly for New York, which lost Lindor due to left calf tightness in the fourth inning.
He did not appear to be running at full speed as he circled the bases and scored on Francisco Alvarez’s double. The 32-year-old Lindor grimaced while rounding third and remained on the ground for a few seconds after sliding in ahead of Victor Caratini’s tag to give the Mets a 2-1 lead.
The Lindor injury was similar to the one sustained by Soto, who returned Wednesday after missing the last 15 games with a strained right calf. Soto suffered his injury while running from first to third on Bo Bichette’s single on April 3.
Soto went 1-for-3 with a walk Wednesday but was picked off first base following his single in the eighth inning.
Lindor is scheduled to undergo an MRI on Thursday. He has missed just 15 games during the last four full seasons.
“We lost Soto and we had a hard time,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said Wednesday night. “Now we potentially (could) be dealing with losing another really good player. We’ve got to figure it out. We’ve got to find a way.”
On the positive side, Luke Weaver (2-0) recorded the final four outs Wednesday as the Mets won for the first time since April 7 and ended their longest losing streak since 2002.
“It’s a sigh of relief,” Weaver said. “There’s a lot more games to play. Today was a great step in the right direction, and it was gonna take a game like that to get us going.”
The loss was the fifth in the last six games for the Twins, whose bullpen struggled to throw strikes after left-hander Connor Prielipp gave up two runs over four innings in his big-league debut.
Kendry Rojas, who also made his big-league debut, relieved Prielipp and walked three in two scoreless innings. Eric Orze threw a perfect seventh inning before losing pitcher Taylor Rogers and Justin Topa issued two-out walks to Brett Baty and Francisco Alvarez following Soto’s pickoff. Vientos followed with his go-ahead hit to score Baty.
“We gave away free passes late,” Twins manager Derek Shelton said Wednesday night. “We can’t walk guys, and the walks ended up turning into runs that scored late in the game.”
Scott was 0-2 with a 5.27 ERA in three starts at Triple-A Syracuse, where he collected 17 strikeouts in 13 2/3 innings. The 26-year-old hasn’t pitched in the majors since July 21, 2024. He went on the injured list with a sprained UCL in his right elbow two days later and underwent Tommy John surgery in September 2024.
Ryan took the loss Friday in his most recent start, when he allowed two runs (one earned) over six innings as the Twins fell 2-1 to the Cincinnati Reds. He didn’t factor into the decision in his lone previous appearance against the Mets on April 14, 2025, when he gave up one run over five innings in New York’s 5-1 victory.
Scott has never opposed the Twins.
–Field Level Media
