Mets' Juan Soto diagnosed with minor calf strain, day‑to‑day after MRI

Mets left fielder Juan Soto has a "minor strain" in his right calf , he said after getting an MRI before Saturday's 9:05 game on SNY at the San Francisco Giants. "Right now, it's just minor strain," Soto said. "Definitely, we're going to be going day by day and see how it feels.

Definitely no decisions made yet. We're going to see how I wake up feeling the next couple days and go from there. " Tyrone Taylor replaced Soto in the first inning of Friday's 10-3 win over the Giants.

Soto confirmed that he felt tightness in his calf while running from second to third base. "When I stepped on the second base and I was like halfway to second and third, I felt some tightness in my calf, definitely," said Soto, who singled and subsequently went from first to third base on Bo Bichette 's RBI knock that scored Francisco Lindor . "I stopped and tried to stretch a little bit, but it was just getting more tight.

" Soto explained his next steps, adding that he is "positive" and feeling "really good" despite the MRI revealing a minor strain. "Right now, we're just going to get treatment and make sure," Soto said. "We're going to test it, definitely, with the trainers in the training room.