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- Updated: August 31, 2016
NEW YORK — Asdrubal Cabrera is convinced at this point that his left knee injury will linger for the rest of this season. The discomfort has been there, chewing up his patella tendon since Spring Training. It has come and gone since then, but Cabrera knows it never leaves for good.
So the Mets’ shortstop is playing through his knee issue as well as he can, which on most days lately has been about as well as possible. Returning to the starting lineup on Tuesday after a two-day absence, Cabrera sparked the Mets’ 7-4 win over the Marlins with a two-run homer in the first inning, reaching base safely three times on the night.
“You’ve got to trust them,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “If he says he can play, he can play. Today he came, he said he felt good, he wanted to play and we got him in there.”
Don’t mistake that to mean Cabrera is healthy. At times on Tuesday, he visibly …
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