Rehabbing Jeff McNeil hopes to be a part of Mets’ postseason motion

PHILADELPHIA — Jeff McNeil has been figuring out. Now, it’s about moving into baseball form.

The Mets utilityman, who’s rehabbing a proper wrist fracture, rejoined the crew Sunday following the delivery of a daughter in latest days and went via a full pregame exercise at Residents Financial institution Park.

Afterward, he didn’t rule out the likelihood he could be able to play if the crew advances to the NLCS.

“I’ve acquired to go off the recommendation of the coaching workers and what the crew wants,” McNeil stated earlier than the Mets misplaced 7-6 to the Phillies in Recreation 2 of the NLDS. “I need to be able to play. I do know there’s just a few extra steps I have to care for with a purpose to be prepared.”

Amongst them is going through stay pitching. So far, McNeil has taken batting apply, fielded grounders and run.

McNeil, who has been on the injured listing since early September, departed the crew close to the top of the final homestand for household causes.

He stated it was an “expertise” watching the crew on TV because it clinched a postseason berth and gained the NL Wild Card Collection.

“Watching that Atlanta sport, I used to be going nuts in my home,” McNeil stated, referring to the Mets victory final Monday that thrust them into the postseason on Francisco Lindor’s house run. “I want I may have been there celebrating.”

McNeil stated he watched the wild-card clincher over the Brewers from a hospital room, as he and his spouse awaited the newborn’s arrival. Pete Alonso’s homer within the ninth resurrected the Mets to a victory.

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“I bear in mind sitting within the hospital mattress with my spouse and Pete comes up in that scenario, and I am going, ‘Possibly a house run proper right here,’ ” McNeil stated. “She says, ‘Don’t go loopy [if it happens].’ We had been in a hospital room, they usually had been going to assume she had the newborn. He hit the homer, and I attempted to comprise myself. It was a particular second, and I used to be tremendous blissful for Pete.”

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