A struggling Mets offense that managed just two runs across a three-game sweep in Miami needed to operate without Juan Soto again Monday.
Soto, who was scratched Sunday with a flu-like sickness that’s been going around the team, was absent from the lineup Memorial Day as the Mets opened a series against the Reds. Manager Carlos Mendoza hoped that Soto might be available off the bench after still having a fever again Sunday night and still feeling weak.
Carson Benge served as designated hitter, while the Mets went with an outfield of Nick Morabito in left, A.J. Ewing in center and Tyrone Taylor in right.
Juan Soto is not in the Mets’ lineup Monday. AP Photo/Lynne Sladky
“We just gotta wait the next few hours, how he develops and hopefully there’s some type of availability later,” Mendoza said. “But who knows. We gotta wait.”
Soto was initially slated to play in the series finale at loanDepot Park, but ended up getting scratched and was unavailable — removing one of the Mets’ few consistent bats from their lineup before the Marlins completed the sweep.
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It’d been a “kind of like a 24-hour thing” with others who’d caught it, but the Mets, Mendoza said Sunday, would have to see.
Over his last 10 games, Soto hit six homers, drove in 10 runs and produced a 1.342 OPS.
That stretch has lifted numbers to 10, 21 and .949, respectively, to start the second season of his $765 million deal.
