Sixty minutes before the first pitch Wednesday night, the Mets did not have a lineup.
Well, at least a full-time manager at Citi Field.who missed the game because of a medical procedureShowalter’s backup would have been Glenn Sherlock, but the bench coach has been in the COVID-19 protocols. The absence of the two top leaders in the dugout led to a strange dynamic, in which the Mets were not sure whether Sherlock would be back with the team in time to make the in-game decisions.
“I don’t think we know [the interim manager] at the moment,” Luis Guillorme said a couple of hours before first pitch. “We’ll find out, we’ll see.”N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg; Tom DiPace; Corey Sipkin A strange day, but the Mets were trying not to focus on the oddity of it all. Surely helping in the matters was the likelihood the lineup had the actual manager’s fingerprints on it. Showalter gave the Mets his “marching orders” before stepping away, Alonso said, alerting them about his upcoming situation.
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