NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mets pitcher Clay Holmes' broken leg should heal in time for him to pitch again for the team during the final two months of this season.
Holmes' right fibula was fractured by a 111.1 mph comebacker off the bat of the Yankees' Spencer Jones during the Mets' 5-2 loss on Friday night.
“Yes, definitely we’ll see him this season,” Mets manager Carlos Mendoza said. “We lost a big, big part of our team.”
Mendoza said the leg will need six to eight weeks to heal and the 33-year-old right-hander will follow with a spring training-type ramp-up, usually about six weeks.
An MRI on Saturday confirmed the results of an X-ray on Friday. Holmes will not need surgery.
“Not going to lie. Last night was tough. We’ve been hit a lot this year with a lot of superstars, with a lot of key players, but yesterday felt different," Mendoza said. “It’s a combination of a lot of things, not only the injuries, but what Clay means to this team not only on the field, but off the field: the competitor, the person, the human, what it means to that clubhouse and what it means to the team in their rotation. So that’s why yesterday felt different.”
A two-time All-Star reliever with the Yankees, Holmes left to sign a $38 million, three-year deal with the Mets before the 2025 season, was shifted from the bullpen to the rotation and went 12-8 with a 3.53 ERA.
He is 4-4 with a 2.39 ERA this year for the Mets, who began Saturday last in the NL East at 18-26 despite starting the season with baseball's highest payroll. He was placed on the 15-day injured list Saturday, and New York filled the roster spot by recalling right-hander Joey Gerber from Triple-A Syracuse.
Holmes joined shortstop Francisco Lindor, catcher Francisco Alvarez, first baseman Jorge Polanco and center fielder Luis Robert Jr. on the IL along with ineffective starting pitcher Kodai Senga and backups Ronny Mauricio and Jared Young.
Mendoza received the diagnosis of Holmes' break when rookie A.J. Ewing was at the plate in the seventh inning with two outs and runners at second and third.
“You feel like you’re getting momentum, and I got the trainer coming up to me and telling me the news,” Mendoza said. “I was like: 'Oh my gosh.'”
Right-hander Tobias Myers could be shifted from the bullpen to the rotation. Left-hander Sean Manaea, who has been pitching out of the bullpen, is another possible starting option.
“When you look at the usage and the pitch count, how many pitches can we ask? Is it 45? Is it 50?” Mendoza said.
Senga, on the IL since April 27 because of lumbar spine inflammation, is not an option for the next turn through the rotation. He is set to throw batting practice Sunday at Port St. Lucie, Florida, going multiple simulated innings.
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New York Mets starting pitcher Clay Holmes throws during the second inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
New York Mets starting pitcher Clay Holmes (35) heads to the dugout while being pulled by manager Carlos Mendoza during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees, Friday, May 15, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A Palestinian man with Israeli citizenship went on a shooting rampage in several towns in central Israel on Sunday, killing one person and wounding five others, according to Israeli police. The attacker was killed by police.
The attack came at a time of heightened tensions following a spate of Israeli settler attacks, and the deadly shooting of a Palestinian baby over the weekend, in the nearby West Bank. Police identified the attacker as a resident of the Arab town of Taybeh in his 20s, but his precise motives were not immediately known.
The attack began with a shooting Sunday morning at a gas station near the town of Kokhav Yair, located on the Israeli side of the boundary with the occupied West Bank. Several other shootings were reported in two nearby Israeli towns and close to the Israeli settlement of Salit, inside the West Bank.
Police initially feared a series of coordinated attacks but eventually determined that a gunman and an accomplice who may have served as his driver were involved. The suspected accomplice was arrested later after he tried to stab police with a glass bottle.
Police said a 35-year-old Israeli man was killed by the gunman in Kokhav Yair, while the Magen David Adom rescue service said five other people were wounded, two severely.
Fears of a widespread attack prompted authorities to order residents to stay at home, and children in the area were kept in lockdown at school for at least three hours.
“Since Oct. 7, the scenario we were expecting was terrorists crossing into our towns from over the boundary. I don’t think that anyone imagined that we would discover the attackers were Israeli citizens,” Oshrit Gani Gonen, the regional council head, told Israeli media, referring to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that sparked the war in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the security forces who killed the attacker, while Israel’s hard-line public security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the police force, released a video of himself standing next to what appeared to be a blurred image of the dead gunman.
“This is the end of every terrorist, this is how it should look,” said Ben-Gvir, who recently led an effort to pass a new law that seeks to impose the death penalty on Palestinian attackers. That law faces legal challenges.
Ben-Gvir has come under sharp condemnation from other Israeli leaders for making controversial videos, such as his treatment of flotilla activists who were detained after attempting to break the maritime blockade to Gaza.
The West Bank has experienced a surge in deadly violence since the war in Gaza began. Israel has stepped up military operations across the territory, killing hundreds of people. It says raids are aimed at militants, but scores of civilians have also been killed.
The Oct. 7 attack killed around 1,200 people and took 251 as hostages. Israel’s ensuing offensive in Gaza has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians, including combatants and civilians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants.
Also on Sunday, at least four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a police point in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. The dead were taken to a field hospital run by the Red Crescent. At least 10 others were wounded, the charity said.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike but has said in the past it will target militants that pose a threat to its troops.
The Oct. 10 U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal attempted to halt the war between Israel and Hamas. While the heaviest fighting has subsided, the ceasefire has seen almost daily Israeli fire.
Meanwhile, Netanyahu in a Cabinet meeting repeated his pledge to take 70% of Gaza: “We are presently holding more than 60% of the territory, and soon we will reach 70%.” He added that Israel is not allowing Hamas to “rearm or harm us,” in comments released to the media.
The head of the U.S.-created Board of Peace that oversees the ceasefire acknowledged last month that next steps in the truce have stalled over the key issue of disarming Hamas.
Associated Press writer Samy Magdy in Cairo contributed to this report.
A previous version of this story was corrected to show that the location where the Israeli man was killed was on the Israeli side of the boundary with the Israel-occupied West Bank, not inside the West Bank.
Blood stains are visible at the scene of what Israeli police say was a series of shooting attacks carried out by a Palestinian citizen of Israel in Kochav Yair, central Israel, Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli security forces and ZAKA rescue service volunteers respond at the scene of a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian citizen of Israel near Tzur Yitzhak in central Israel, Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli security forces and ZAKA rescue service volunteers respond at the scene of a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian citizen of Israel near Tzur Yitzhak in central Israel, Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli police officers are deployed at the scene of a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian citizen of Israel near Tzur Yitzhak in central Israel, Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli security forces are deployed at the scene of a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian citizen of Israel near Tzur Yitzhak in central Israel, Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Israeli security forces are deployed at the scene of a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian citizen of Israel near Tzur Yitzhak in central Israel, Sunday, June 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
