Mets outfielder Brandon Nimmo had an injury scare in Tuesday’s loss to the Diamondbacks.
In the fourth inning, Nimmo chased down a double down the left field line hit by Lourdes Gurriel Jr. The ball caromed off the corner and Nimmo seemingly tweaked his knee changing directions. Manager Carlos Mendoza and the club trainer went out to Nimmo, who stretched and massaged his knee and jogged a few feet. Nimmo convinced his manager to let him stay in, and the outfielder finished the entire game.
“I don’t know if the spike got stuck there with the turf, and Nimmo hyperextended the knee there. We’re going to have the doctor take a look at him,” Mendoza said after the game. “He was able to manage. He was stable and played through it, obviously, finished the game… As of right now, I’m not too concerned, but let’s see what the doctor says.”
The knee Nimmo tweaked was his left, not the right knee he injured during spring training. That’s a plus, but Nimmo looked compromised in left field shortly after the injury scare. He was cautious running down balls, and looked in pain when slowing down to catch fly balls. But in his final at-bat, he looked in good spirits, smiling and talking with the home plate umpire.
“He’s smart, he knows himself better than anybody,” Mendoza said of Nimmo. “He’s not going to risk it. The trainer checked him, and he finished the game.”
“[Knee is] good, for the most part. I think we dodged a bullet, that’s great,” Nimmo said after the game. “Felt it hyperextend when I went over to get the ball and was fortunate to get off of it pretty quickly and prevent more damage from being done.
“We’ll see how it is in the next 12 hours or so. I expect to be good to go to play.”
Nimmo said his footing as he tried to figure out how the ball was going to carom off the wall caused him to feel like he double-bounced on a trampoline. But the veteran outfielder was evaluated by the team doctor, and the conclusion is that his knee feels stable.
“[The doctor] just said, watching the replay and looking at the knee, we dodged a bullet,” Nimmo said. “Could have been much worse. We’re going to take it as a good thing. Dodged something that could have been a lot worse.”
The Mets finish their three-game series with the Diamondbacks on Wednesday afternoon.
Brandon Nimmo is remaining in the game after appearing to tweak something in his leg while fielding a ball off the wall pic.twitter.com/kScaTArXo3
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