Luisangel Acuña survived his injury scare down in Winter Ball.
The young Mets infielder was forced to leave the game last week after being hit by a pitch in the forearm.
Just days later, though, he’s back doing damage in the Cardenales de Lara lineup.
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Acuña was on-base a total of five times on Thursday night, including a pair of extra base-hits.
He kicked off the game with a solo homer to dead center, lined a double to the gap in the fourth, drew a pair of walks over his next two at-bats, then kept things going with a two out single in the bottom of the tenth.
The 23-year-old then followed that with another two-hit game on Friday.
He tripled and came around for the little league homer in the fourth, then after grounding out in the sixth he came up in the bottom of the eighth and beat out an infield single to spark a game-tying rally.
Acuña grounded into a double play the tenth, but still has been putting together a stretch of strong play.
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He’s now hitting .268 with 10 extra base-hits, 13 RBI, 17 walks, 18 strikeouts, a .430 on-base percentage, and a .950 OPS through 22 games.
14 of those games have been at shortstop, and the other eight he’s been out in center.
It’ll be interesting to see what the Mets decide to do with Acuña this offseason after bringing in veteran 2B Marcus Semien in the Brandon Nimmo deal.
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