LOS ANGELES — Another one bites the dust.
Make it three star players out indefinitely for the Mets, after Jose Reyes yesterday joined David Wright and Ike Davis on the disabled list. The All-Star shortstop, who incurred a strained left hamstring running to first base on Saturday against the Yankees, is expected to miss at least two more weeks, testing the Mets’ resolve as they attempt to make a wild-card run.
“It’s disappointing, because I want to be on the field, but it’s part of the game,” Reyes said before the Mets went out and stunk up Dodger Stadium in a 6-0 loss.
Reyes, who had a second opinion on the hamstring, said there has been no change from the original diagnosis: He’s still dealing with a Grade 1 (least severe) strain to the hamstring.
Manager Terry Collins had hoped the Mets could play shorthanded through the weekend in San Francisco and then perhaps have Reyes for the first series after the All-Star break, against the Phillies, but said it wasn’t worth the risk. Collins’ preliminary guess is Reyes might return for the Mets’ first road trip after the break, which begins July 22 at Florida.
“It came down to what’s the most important — three games [against the Phillies] or the next 50?” Collins said. “We just thought it was going to be at least another week, if not more.”
Reyes was slated to start at shortstop for the NL All-Star team next Tuesday, but will now be reduced to watching the game. It marks the third time in his last four All-Star selections that an injury will prevent Reyes from playing.
“It’s a little bit disappointing, because when you go to the All-Star Game, you want to play,” Reyes said.
Nick Evans was called up from Triple-A Buffalo to take Reyes’ roster spot and was in last night’s starting lineup at first base. Ruben Tejada will remain the starter at shortstop, with Justin Turner capable of backing up the position.
With Reyes down and Wright still probably at least two weeks away from potentially rejoining the Mets, the burden will fall upon Carlos Beltran and Jason Bay to carry the lineup. Reyes was leading the NL in hitting with a .354 average.
After the Mets won a fourth straight game without Reyes on Wednesday, Bay said the team has the right mental makeup to survive most any crisis.
“We’ve dealt with this since day one,” Bay said. “We’ve been missing somebody. It’s not like all of a sudden we had everybody, we were on this roll, and then a couple of guys go down. We’ve been dealing with this all year, and it almost becomes normal. That’s just the way we’re going to do it, and I think everybody accepts that.”
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