LOS ANGELES — The Mets received good news in New York on Wednesday afternoon. Test results for Mark Vientos showed only a low-grade strain in his right hamstring, which requires a much shorter timeline than originally anticipated.

The third baseman will be sidelined at least two weeks while the pain and tightness subside. After he’s symptom-free, the Mets will start him on a running progression and he’ll resume baseball activities. If all goes well, he could return in late June or early July.

It was a relief for the Mets and manager Carlos Mendoza.

“You never know,” Mendoza said. “He goes down the way he did, we’re kind of expecting the worst… You hate to see him go down at any time, but the fact that they’re telling us it’s low-grade, it’s good news.”

Vientos was injured running o

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