Manaea's return to injury-depleted Mets rotation delayed by elbow issue
NEW YORK — Mets pitcher Sean Manaea complained of elbow discomfort following his most recent minor league rehab outing, and his return to New York's injury-depleted rotation will be delayed.
Manaea had an MRI on Monday that showed loose bodies in his left elbow. He received a cortisone shot and was shut down from throwing for two to three days.
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He knew his speed could allow him to take advantage of any potential misplays in that situation, and he ran prepared for one. 'I would love if a runner was on second base and I got a sac fly,' Winn said. 'If I can do that for my teammates, that's sick. Pop Warner said if I wasn't running hard he wouldn't have been able to send me. Just so happened that I was, and it turned into a nice play. Advertisement 'I obviously love hitting homers and doubles, but those are going to come more consistent than scoring from second on a sac fly. I mean, that got the whole team going. I've done that one time, in Low A, and have been looking to do it ever since. To be able to do it in the big leagues, against the Cubs? That's what dreams are made of.' Masyn Winn has Hit the Buds! 🍻 Reply with #STLCards and #HitTheBudsSweepstakes for your chance to win whenever a Cardinals player hits a home run into the opposing bullpen! 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He agreed that it was as simple as forgetting the outs in the moment, despite announcing the situation just moments before. 'We give the outs every out and I gave two outs,' he said. 'So can't really do much about that.' His manager wasn't about to excoriate the MVP candidate for a rare misstep. 'He just made a mistake,' manager Craig Counsell said. 'Obviously lost track of the outs and it's just a mistake.' Pete Crow-Armstrong forgot how many outs there were, and Masyn Winn capitalized for the Cardinals. 🎥 @MLB — The Athletic MLB (@TheAthleticMLB) June 25, 2025 Jameson Taillon was on the mound for the defensive miscue. The starter has been strong for much of the season, but like the team, has hit a rough patch. His bad outing last Thursday was the start of the Cubs' current skid, losing five of six games. 'He's been so good for us this year,' Taillon said. 'Obviously, he's one of the best defenders in baseball; that's just a freak thing. He takes a lot of pride in his defense. Takes a lot of pride in being a great teammate. I'm not too worried about it. I'm just mad at myself for giving up the homers and giving up a lot of hard contact. I'm not too concerned with the eighth run I gave up; I'm concerned with all eight.' Advertisement With regards to the bunt, Counsell said Crow-Armstrong did that on his own. While the manager didn't make the call, he explained Crow-Armstrong's thinking. 'It's against a left-handed pitcher,' Counsell said. 'He wants the ball in play, that's what he's thinking, just get the ball in play. And he made a poor bunt.' Entering play on Tuesday, Crow-Armstrong had a 31.5 percent strikeout rate against lefties. Against righties, it's 10 points lower. But the decision was still perplexing. Crow-Armstrong also had 10 extra-base hits against lefties this season, including five home runs. When he does make contact, it's often in the air. Even if it were on the ground, his tremendous speed means a double play is unlikely. 'That was an attempt for a little push bunt and try to bunt for a base hit,' Crow-Armstrong said. 'I didn't do a good job of playing the game of baseball today.' Perhaps that's true. But he wasn't the only one. In his first 14 starts of the season, Taillon had a 3.48 ERA with a 0.98 WHIP while delivering 10 quality starts. But over his last two outings, Taillon has combined for eight innings and 13 runs allowed. With three more home runs given up, he's at 21 on the season, second-most in all of baseball and matching his total from last season. 'It felt like the game was pretty easy for me there for six weeks or whatever,' Taillon said. 'Now it's really hard again. You just expect that at some point in the season, and it's about punching back and finding a way to fix it as fast as possible.' For Swanson, he's batting fifth in a potent lineup and coming up with runners on base quite regularly. On Tuesday, he grounded out to end the game with runners on second and third. He failed to come through after Crow-Armstrong laid down his ill-fated bunt. On the season, Swanson is hitting .141 with runners in scoring position with a .218 slugging percentage. With nobody on, he has a .279 batting average with a .508 slugging percentage. Twelve of his 15 homers have come with the bases empty. Advertisement 'Really, all year I've been pretty bad at it, to be honest,' Swanson said. 'I think a lot of it is being able to simplify and focus on hitting the ball somewhere and good things will be able to happen. I'm not really holding my end of the bargain up in that regard. It's definitely something that frustrates me and I gotta be better with.' This rough patch doesn't fall on one person. And it also isn't a sign that this team is falling apart. When the Cubs went to Philadelphia earlier this month, that team had lost nine of 10. They followed that up with a 9-2 run. The New York Yankees recently lost seven of eight as their strong offense briefly disappeared. The New York Mets are currently sputtering, losing 10 of their last 11. This is a baseball season. Long and winding. The key for the Cubs is finding a way to quickly pull themselves out of this mess. They have to avoid what happened in the previous two seasons and make sure this isn't a tailspin, but rather a bump in the road. 'It's part of this game,' Swanson said. 'So much about a season is being able to weather times when you're not feeling like you're playing up to your best as a group. I know this group is tough enough to get over it. Sometimes it's just a part of it and we gotta keep coming and look for ways to continue to get better.' In just a week, the Cubs have gone from having a 6 1/2 game lead in the division, their largest of the year, to just 2 1/2 games, their smallest since May 27. The Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers are breathing down their necks. They need to flush the last week of baseball as quickly as possible. How? Perhaps it's as easy as Crow-Armstrong said: 'Go to sleep and wake up.' (Photo of Pete Crow-Armstrong looking on after Masyn Winn scored from second on a sacrifice fly: Jeff Curry / Imagn Images)
