Brandon Nimmo was out of the Mets’ lineup for their series-opener Monday against the Nationals after he fainted in his hotel bathroom around 5:15 a.m. and sustained a cut on his forehead.
The outfielder, who didn’t remember the moment when he fainted and said something like that hadn’t happened to him before, immediately called team trainers after waking up and underwent testing — which came back negative, signaling that Nimmo didn’t suffer a concussion — at the hospital Tuesday before the game.
“All I remember is I woke up, I was on the floor of the bathroom and I was confused,” Nimmo told reporters at Nationals Park. “I was like, ‘Why am I here?’ And I pushed up, and when I pushed up, I had the blood running off my face from where I hit my head.”
After the incident happened, Nimmo called the trainers, and manager Carlos Mendoza woke up to a text message about what happened.
Nimmo added that he hadn’t consumed any alcohol Sunday.
“I think we got lucky there,” Mendoza said pregame.
It’s the second concussion scare for Nimmo this season.
After a prolonged slump that followed getting hit by a pitch in the head, the Mets sent him for concussion testing that all came back clean, too.
“I’ve undergone tests and we are going to do more, just because Mendy dealt with that last year and he understands,” Nimmo told The Post’s Peter Botte last month. “So there will be more tests. But I don’t have any symptoms. I don’t feel fuzzy, I’m not having any trouble sleeping, I don’t have any sensitivity to light. To my knowledge, I’m fine, but it is something that’s on the team’s radar, for sure. They’re trying to do right by me and making sure I continue to check all the boxes.
“So I will continue to undergo whatever they want me to do and make sure that nothing pops up. I just don’t think it’s an excuse, but it’s definitely weird that it correlates to getting hit in the head.”
Nimmo, who hit his 100th homer during the Mets’ loss Sunday, eventually snapped out of that rough patch and pieced together a productive June.
He hit .315 with a 1.004 OPS across the month, which coincided with the Mets’ lineup assembling their best stretch of the season to spark a 16-8 June to propel them back into the wild-card race.
Jeff McNeil replaced Nimmo in left for Tuesday’s game against the Nationals.