Mets legend defends star shortstop amid backlash: ‘Relax everybody’
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Mets legend José Reyes has had it with all the Francisco Lindor slander.
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After seeing the stream of negativity being said about the Mets’ star — WFAN’s Craig Carton even called for Lindor to “go” — Reyes took to social media to ask eveyone to settle down.
“Relax everybody, my guy Francisco Lindor’s going to be good,” Reyes wrote, via X/Twitter. “Bad days happen — that’s baseball. Could happen to anyone. He’s human just like all of us. Watch how he responds. This going to be good for him and for the organization."
Here’s what happened. In the very first inning against the St. Louis Cardinals, the $341 million shortstop committed one of the most baffling mental errors you’ll ever see at the major league level.
With a man on first and one out, Lindor fields a routine ground ball at short that should have been an easy double play. Instead, he steps on the second base bag and thought the inning was over, never throwing the ball to first base for the final out.
A couple innings later, with Juan Soto at the plate, Lindor was on first base adjusting his oven mitt when he got picked off.
Instead of a potential two-run homer when Soto launched a bomb moments later, it was just a solo shot. The Mets eventually lost in extra innings after a dropped pop-up in right field.
And what did Francisco Lindor have to say for himself?
“I forgot the outs,” he said, via X/Twitter.
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