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Brandon Nimmo reached for another gear that wasn’t available Tuesday night.

The Mets outfielder, trying to beat out an infield single in the seventh inning of Game 2 in a doubleheader, realized the ball he had fouled off his right knee moments earlier was the culprit.

Nimmo departed the game and was diagnosed with a quadriceps contusion. He is hopeful he will return to the lineup Wednesday.

After the Mets’ 4-3 loss to the Cardinals, Nimmo said he was more irritated that he didn’t beat out the grounder than he was concerned about the contusion. X-rays were negative.

“It feels all right now, I have just got a lump on it,” Nimmo said. “We’ll just take it day-to-day and see how it is in the morning.”

Travis Jankowski replaced Nimmo in center field for the final two innings.

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The Mets’ hearts are with Starling Marte following the death of his grandmother.

Marte was placed on the bereavement list Tuesday, a day after the passing of his grandmother, and will be away from the Mets at least through the remainder of this homestand. It was an emotional loss for Marte, according to manager Buck Showalter, given that he was close to his grandmother after his mother’s death at a young age. Marte also lost his wife Noelia to a heart attack in 2020 and Wednesday is the anniversary of her passing.

“It was heart-wrenching talking to [Marte] yesterday,” Showalter said. “He cares. He’s got a great heart, a big heart. It’s been tough on us, what he is going through. I look forward to getting him back with the team and being around people that care for him.”

Stephen Nogosek was recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to claim Marte’s roster spot. Showalter said the organization will give Marte as much time as he needs to mourn.

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Pete Alonso and Cardinals first-base coach Stubby Clapp acknowledged each other before the nightcap of the doubleheader, extending an air fist bump to each other.

Alonso started at designated hitter in Game 1 and went 0-for-4 in the Mets’ 3-1 victory.

He went 0-for-3 with a walk in the nightcap.

Last month, Alonso was upset Clapp had tackled him from behind after both benches emptied in St. Louis.

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James McCann underwent surgery to repair the fractured hamate bone in his left wrist. The catcher is expected to be sidelined for six weeks.

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Showalter was still working on a rotation beyond the next two games, when Max Scherzer and Chris Bassitt are scheduled to pitch, but acknowledged that David Peterson is a consideration for this weekend in Colorado.

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Jake Reed was optioned to Syracuse after pitching two scoreless innings in relief in Game 1. The Mets recalled infielder Gosuke Katoh for the nightcap.

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Hitting coach Eric Chavez returned home to Arizona, where his son was undergoing knee surgery. Chavez is expected to rejoin the club in Colorado on Friday.

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Here are Mark Cannizzaro’s PGA Championship picks:

The sixth time will be the charm: Spieth completing the career grand slam with a Wannamaker Trophy, the only one he’s missing. Spieth enters the week in terrific form, having won at Hilton Head and nearly winning last week at the Byron Nelson.

If he putts like he did when he was at his best, Spieth will win.

Since winning his third major at the 2017 British Open, Spieth’s five previous PGA attempts were a tie for 28th in 2017, T12 in 2018, T3 in 2019, T71 in 2020 and T30 last year. This is the year.

Viktor Hovland

If he can improve his chipping, which will be key on Southern Hills, Hovland, a three-time winner on the PGA Tour, has a great chance to win because he’s got local ties having gone to Oklahoma State. He’s a great ball-striker, leading the field in strokes gained ball-striking in his past 20 rounds.

Hottest player on the planet comes in with great mojo, having won four of his past seven starts (not including New Orleans, which was a team event). The Masters champion once called Southern Hills one of his favorite courses of all time. Combine that and his No. 1 world ranking and … look out.

Cameron Smith

Few are paying any attention to the Aussie, but perhaps they’ve forgotten about his win at The Players. Scheffler’s remarkable run has overshadowed what Smith has done, becoming one of the top players in the world.

Talor Gooch

He’s the only player in the field who was born and raised in Oklahoma. His hometown is less than two hours away from Southern Hills, which he said is one of his favorite courses. He won his first career PGA Tour tournament last fall, and home-field advantage will help.

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Bullets buzzed past Bronx Council Member Pierina Sanchez’s office for the second week in a row, sending the pol and her team ducking for cover on Tuesday.

“Shots fired outside our office again this afternoon. Again in broad daylight,” Sanchez said on Twitter hours after the gunfire outside her Morris Avenue office.

“Down to the ground went our team, to take cover. It hit even harder this week than last. Went out went on the block and our community’s trauma was thick in the air,” the lawmaker wrote.

Tuesday’s scare came eight days after a 24-year-old man was shot in the leg right outside her office door.

The NYPD said officers responded to the latest report of shots fired at about 4:30 p.m., but didn’t immediately find any victims.

The council member, who was born and raised in the Bronx, said gun violence has taken its toll on her community.

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Shots fired outside our office again this afternoon. Again in broad daylight. Down to the ground went our team, to take cover.

It hit even harder this week than last.

Went out went on the block and our community’s trauma was thick in the air.

— Pierina Sanchez NYC (@PiSanchezNYC) May 18, 2022

“Our collective hurt, palpable,” Sanchez tweeted. “Neighbors who ran for the lives, again. Moms hugging their children tightly. Community leaders, our OGs & partners in this work, who give so much to make things better, yelling out WHY.”

She said she checked on neighbors and community members following last week’s shooting as well.

The gunman in last week’s shooting fled southbound on Morris Avenue and remains at large, police said.

On Tuesday, Sanchez said she wasn’t shocked by the gun violence, but angry.

“Am I in shock? No. I grew up here,” she said in the aftermath. “This is what we face in the ‘hood year after year. I’m thankful it wasn’t worse. Thankful our team is okay. But I’m angry it ever comes to violence.”

The council member said the city must take guns off the streets and invest in affordable housing, after school programs and job development to address the root cause of gun violence.

“We shouldn’t have to think twice about walking down our own block. Whether our kids can play in the garden,” Sanchez said.

“We deserve more.”

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BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday that Finland, Sweden have officially applied to join the world’s biggest military alliance, a move driven by security concerns over Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“I warmly welcome the requests by Finland and Sweden to join NATO. You are our closest partners,” Stoltenberg told reporters after a receiving their application letters from the two Nordic countries’ ambassadors.

The application must now be weighed by the 30 member countries. That process is expected to take about two weeks, although Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed reservations about Finland and Sweden joining.

If his objections are overcome, and accession talks go as well as expected, the two could become members within a few months. The process usually takes eight to 12 months, but NATO wants to move quickly given the threat from Russia hanging over the Nordic countries’ heads.

Canada, for example, says that it expects to ratify their accession protocol in just a few days.

Public opinion in Finland and Sweden has shifted massively in favor of membership since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Finland and Sweden are NATO’s closest partners. They have functioning democracies, well-funded armed forces and contribute to the alliance’s military operations and air policing. Any obstacles they face will merely be of a technical, or possibly political nature.

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