New York Mets
pitcher Carlos Carrasco is expected to miss up to a month after
straining his left oblique, the team announced Tuesday in another
setback for its rotation.
The
35-year-old Carrasco, 13-5 with a 3.92 ERA in a resurgement season for
the NL East leaders, was hurt Monday night in a game at Atlanta.
The
Mets said Carrasco had an MRI on Tuesday that showed a low-grade strain
on the left side. The club said a typical timeline for this sort of
injury was three to four weeks.
Carrasco
gave up three runs in two innings in a 13-1 loss to the Braves, who
trail New York by 4 1/2 games in the division. His outing was
interrupted by a 55-minute rain delay in the second inning — he came
back after the break and got the last out, but winced on his final pitch
and was pulled.
“We’re
just going to wait to see how I feel tomorrow and go from there,”
Carrasco said after the game. “This is my first time that I’ve felt
something like this. It just happened on the last pitch of the game.”
Carrasco had been 5-0 with a 1.69 ERA in his previous seven starts.
Acquired
with star shortstop Francisco Lindor in a trade with Cleveland before
the 2021 season, Carrasco was injured and went 1-5 in his first year
with the Mets.