September call-ups couldn’t be coming at a better time.
The number of nagging injuries in Queens keeps mounting, and the multitude of Mets afflicted left Monday’s bench so thin Terry Collins only had two position players — aside from backup catcher Rene Rivera — available in an important game against the Marlins at Citi Field.
Though Yoenis Cespedes was back in the lineup — and hit a dramatic, walk-off, 10th-inning homer in the Mets’ 2-1 win — after missing one game, his quad, which caused him to miss 14 games earlier this season, appears as if he won’t be 100 percent until the offseason.