SAN DIEGO – Tylor Megill is on his option to the west coast to hitch the Mets.
The right-hander flew to San Diego on Monday as he inches nearer to his return from proper biceps tendinitis. Megill is predicted to be activated earlier than the Mets tackle the Angels this weekend, which is the final leg of their 10-game, 11-day highway journey.
“He’s been good for a while,” Buck Showalter mentioned of Megill. “Just trying to make sure he’s 100 percent.”
Though the Mets aren’t one hundred pc dedicated on a begin date for Megill, he’s lined as much as pitch on Saturday towards the Angels. Showalter mentioned Megill ought to be capable of throw at the very least 5 innings in his first time again within the Mets rotation since May 11.
Megill’s first and solely rehab outing with Double-A Binghamton befell on Sunday. He gave up two earned runs on three hits, permitted no walks, and recorded 5 strikeouts over 3.2 innings and 53 pitches. Outside of a first-inning dwelling run, the opposite two hits that Megill surrendered got here on comfortable contact.
“I feel ready to go,” Megill mentioned on Sunday. “My arm feels great, body feels good. … Everything is feeling natural right now.”
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Brandon Nimmo was again within the lineup on Monday for the Mets’ sequence opener towards the Padres after getting hit by a pitch throughout Sunday’s 5-4 win over the Dodgers.
He was hit by a Caleb Ferguson 95-mph fastball that drilled his proper hand with two outs within the seventh inning. It was the identical hand, and practically the identical location, on his proper wrist that has been bothering him prior to now week. The outfielder didn’t play towards the Phillies final Saturday because of the wrist discomfort. But he doesn’t imagine the hit by pitch on Sunday made the wrist harm any worse.
“We dodged a bullet there for sure,” Nimmo mentioned on Monday. “I found a way to manage. It’s OK. I think it was hit half and half on the hand and the padding.”
Nimmo, who nearly at all times sprints to first base even after getting hit by a pitch, was down on the bottom for a number of moments in apparent ache. Showalter and a Mets coach got here out to verify on the middle fielder, however Nimmo quickly stood up and took first base. After the seventh inning, Showalter got here again out to verify on Nimmo, who shooed him away and ran to the outfield to stay within the sport.
“It’s been tough,” Nimmo mentioned of taking part in by way of the harm. “Fortunately, this is the first kind of rough patch that I’ve gone through this year. .. I just wanna play. I love playing. I love being out here. The consistency is so key to being out here.”
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