QUEENS — New York Mets right fielder Starling Marte is seeing specialists on Wednesday for migraine issues that have been plaguing him for the past five days.
The 34-year-old was scratched from Tuesday’s game, roughly an hour before first pitch, because of his second migraine since Saturday. The same issue scratched him for Saturday’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“That part of it’s gotten a lot better, but he still feels weak,” Showalter said on Wednesday. “He threw up a lot… I went back to see him [Tuesday] and he was hugging the garbage can.”
Marte’s meetings on Wednesday are a first attempt to see what could be triggering the migraines — something he has dealt with before, but not so close together as experienced this past week.
“We just want to make sure we’re crossing things off,” Showalter added.
The 2023 season has been a frustrating, injury-riddled one for Marte, who was an All-Star in his first year with the Mets in 2022. While coming back from offseason groin surgery, he also suffered a neck injury in April.
In 84 games, he’s batting .254 with five home runs, 28 RBI, and 24 stolen bases.
“There’s a lot of things physically,” Showalter said. “Especially when you steal bases the way he does in the way he does. So you just want to make sure that he’s OK. Sometimes these things could be triggered by something else.”
