The Mets’ rotation went through spring training and the early weeks of the season fully healthy, a fragment of a sentence plenty around the Mets would not want written or spoken aloud in fear of a jinx.
The run of good health might have ended.
Clay Holmes left the mound with a trainer on Friday with what the club called left hamstring tightness.
In the top of the sixth inning in a game the Mets were trailing the A’s, 1-0, at Citi Field, Holmes threw a cutter to Jacob Wilson, who reversed the pitch into left field for the A’s fifth hit of the night.
Immediately, manager Carlos Mendoza and a trainer jogged out to the mound and had a short chat with Holmes, who then walked off the field alongside the trainer. Mendoza signaled for Tobias Myers, who was allowed a full warmup on the mound.
Holmes’ 81st and final pitch was an 86.7 mph cutter, a few ticks down from normal. His overall velocity was down in the inning, although that might have arisen from his workload.
Holmes allowed one run on five hits and three walks in 5 ⅓ innings.
Sean Manaea has been used as a long reliever in the early going of the season and would be the most natural fill-in if Holmes’ hamstring forces him to miss time.
