{"id":162476,"date":"2025-08-21T00:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162476\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:50:15","slug":"brandon-nimmo-exits-early-against-nationals-in-mets-injury-worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162476\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Nimmo exits early against Nationals in Mets injury worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Mets opened a game Wednesday with a scare.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Nimmo was pulled from a game at Nationals Park before the bottom of the second inning with neck stiffness, with Starling Marte taking his spot in left field.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36887666\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/celebrates-second-base-line-drive-109823985.jpg\" alt=\"Brandon Nimmo of the New York Mets celebrates at second base.\" class=\"wp-image-36887666\"  \/>Brandon Nimmo of the Mets exited Wednesday\u2019s game in the second inning.  Bonnie Cash\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate update from the Mets regarding Nimmo\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>Nimmo had taken an at-bat in the first inning and grounded into a double play.<\/p>\n<p>A team that is playing without Francisco Alvarez could ill-afford to lose Nimmo, who has been a constant at the top of the lineup and entered with a .760 OPS and 20 home runs in his first 120 games.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The Mets opened a game Wednesday with a scare. Brandon Nimmo was pulled from a game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7599,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-162476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brandon-nimmo","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064014417617148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}