It appears Griffin Canning’s 2025 season has come to a painful end.
The New York Mets starting pitcher exited Thursday’s game in the third inning with an ankle injury, with Mets manager Carlos Mendoza telling reporters after the game that the training staff believes it to be an Achilles injury.
The injury occurred as Canning started running from the mound for a ground ball. He immediately pulled up limping as he began his first step and fell to the ground in clear pain. After a visit from trainers, he was slowly helped to the clubhouse.
The Mets won the game 4-0.
If it’s indeed a major Achilles injury, it would end Canning’s season after a strong start to his Mets career. New York signed him to a one-year, $4.25 million deal last winter as a buy-low move, after an up-and-down career with the Los Angeles Angels. Canning led the AL in earned runs allowed last season, but looked like a different pitcher with the Mets.
Canning holds a 3.77 ERA in 16 starts through Thursday, with significant bumps in both strikeout rate and ground ball rate compared to last year. He’s part of a Mets rotation that has surprised all observers and still leads MLB in ERA at 3.11.
Injuries haven’t been kind to that rotation, however. Before Canning’s injury, Kodai Senga and Tylor Megill both hit the 15-day IL earlier this month, Senga with a hamstring strain and Megill with an elbow sprain.
Expected reinforcement Sean Manaea has also been delayed after he felt elbow discomfort during a rehab assignment. The one piece of recent good news has been the return of Frankie Montas, who threw five scoreless innings in his season debut on Tuesday after missing the start of the season with a lat strain.
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