{"id":151472,"date":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151472\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T23:53:08","slug":"mets-activate-torrens-from-il-alvarez-in-lineup-after-hbp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151472\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets activate Torrens from IL; Alvarez in lineup after HBP"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Backup catcher Luis Torrens<\/a> was reinstated from the 10-day injured list Wednesday by the New York Mets<\/a> as they try to hang on to a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

Torrens had been sidelined since Sept. 7 with a bruised right forearm. After going 0-for-4 with two strikeouts Tuesday in his lone rehab game with Triple-A Syracuse, he was available off the bench Wednesday night against the San Diego Padres<\/a> at Citi Field.<\/p>\n

New York began the day 1 1\/2 games ahead of the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> for the last National League wild card.<\/p>\n

Starting catcher Francisco Alvarez<\/a> was right back in the lineup after leaving Tuesday night’s 8-3 victory in the eighth inning when he was drilled on the left arm by a 100 mph fastball from Padres rookie Bradgley Rodriguez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“As soon as it happened last night, when I went out to the field, I thought he was going to be done. It didn’t sound good, from the dugout,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “He was in pain, big time. So I knew he was coming out of the ballgame, right? And then before the game’s over, he’s in the dugout with ice on it and with a smile on his face. I was like, wow.<\/p>\n

“They checked him. I was concerned more about the elbow. But then talking to the trainers, it was more like the triceps area. So I was like, all right, I think we caught a break here.”<\/p>\n

Mendoza marveled at the toughness and determination displayed by the 23-year-old Alvarez, already playing with a broken pinkie on his left hand and a torn UCL in his right thumb.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing,” Mendoza said. “This guy is something else, man.”<\/p>\n

To clear a roster spot for Torrens, the Mets optioned catcher Hayden Senger<\/a> to Syracuse.<\/p>\n

Torrens, an excellent defender with a rocket arm, was batting .225 with five home runs, 29 RBIs and a .635 OPS in 87 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Backup catcher Luis Torrens was reinstated from the 10-day injured list Wednesday by the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-151472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}