Charles Leclaire/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
PITTSBURGH — Just when Robinson Cano is starting to hit, the Mets’ starting second baseman appears headed back to the injured list.
Cano limped off with a strained left hamstring, an injury that overshadowed Noah Syndergaard’s sparkling outing in a 13-2 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday that pulled the Mets within one game of .500 for the first time since mid-June.
Cano is to have an magnetic resonance imaging examination on Monday, when the Mets open a homestand with a doubleheader against Miami.
“We don’t know what it is yet.