LOS ANGELES – Max Scherzer has a new injury, but is unlikely to cost him more time on the injured list.
At his home in Florida, the Mets right-hander was bitten by one of his dogs in recent days, according to a source.
The bite was in Scherzer’s throwing hand, according to a team official, but it will not return him to rehab yet. Scherzer is in IL with an oblique strain and is rehabilitating for a possible return to the Mets in July.
Max Scherzer is still recovering from an oblique stump.AP
Scherzer’s dog bite came in a week when Francisco Lindor stuck his right middle finger in the double doors of his hotel suite and missed a match. Lindor, diagnosed with a fracture, returned to the Mets lineup Friday night.
Before the Mets opened their four-game series against the Dodgers, which continues over the weekend, coach Buck Showalter said the 37-year-old Scherzer’s rehabilitation of oblique strain was progressing satisfactorily.
“Who knows what he is doing away from [complex]”He’s probably had four or five sides,” Showalter said. “His ‘desire’ is off the charts, but from what we can tell he’s doing well.”