LOS ANGELES — The Mets are Metsing again.
Max Scherzer was recently bitten by his dog on his throwing hand, a person with knowledge of the incident confirmed to the New York Daily News. Scherzer will not require stitches, and the Mets do not appear concerned that the dog bite will set back his rehab from a left oblique strain.
Scherzer later revealed more details regarding the chomp, via a tweet. He added that he returned to throwing after one day off due to the incident.
“My dog Rafi hurt her leg on a run,” he tweeted. “She was howling in pain and I went to calm her down by putting my hands on her. When I did that she bit my right hand. Fortunately it wasn’t a bad bite. I took one day off from throwing and was able to long toss the next day. This will have no effect on my rehab and this is literally a non story.”
Scherzer is currently rehabbing at the Mets’ complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla. He lives in nearby West Palm Beach.
The right-hander was placed on the injured list May 19 with what the team diagnosed as a moderate to high oblique strain on his left side. The timeline for that type of injury is 6-8 weeks, which would place Scherzer’s return sometime in July.
Scherzer carried a 2.54 ERA across eight outings and 49 2/3 innings for the Mets before he pulled himself out of his start against the Cardinals on May 18 at Citi Field. He then said he felt unusual pain in his left side, after which X-rays revealed the oblique injury that would cause him to miss several weeks on the IL.
The dog bite is the second strange Mets injury of the week.
Francisco Lindor also accidentally injured himself when he jammed his right middle finger in between the sliding double doors in his West Hollywood hotel suite late Wednesday night. The shortstop reported to work with a swollen and black-and-blue finger the following day. Lindor was out of the Mets lineup on Thursday, and returned to game action on Friday, going 0 for 4 in the club’s 6-1 loss to the Dodgers.
