Francisco Lindor has broken pinky toe, plans to play through it

Mets star Francisco Lindor suffered a broken pinky toe when he was hit by a pitch on Wednesday night against the Dodgers.

He is out of the lineup on Thursday, but plans to play through the injury and considers himself "day by day."

"I’m day-by-day," he said before Thursday's game. "Hopefully, I feel good enough to play sooner rather than later. We’ll see. We’ll take it day by day. I trust the trainers, I trust how they go about it, and it will be an educated decision to play or not."

Lindor played the entire game on Wednesday after getting hit, but he was clearly hobbled while running the bases.

Asked whether he could possibly wind up on the IL because of the injury, Lindor said yes, noting that it would be a pain tolerance thing and saying that it could be a nagging issue since bones take six weeks to heal.

"At one point of the game I didn’t think it was broken because I didn’t feel any numbness or tingling that was going up my foot or up my leg," Lindor said about playing through the pain on Wednesday night. "I thought it was just a regular hit-by-pitch. I don’t really bruise, and when I got to the X-ray and took off my sock, I saw there was a bruise there and knew something was going to be wrong.

"It’s not a surgical thing, it’s just a matter of tolerating the pain, so hopefully I’m strong enough to play sooner rather than later."

Lindor is in the midst of another MVP-level season, slashing .279/.353/.490 with a career-best 141 OPS+ while playing Gold Glove-caliber defense at shortstop.