NEW YORK -- How will Moises Alou manage to limp? His right knee is chronically sore because of arthritis and a torn meniscus. He missed three games because of it last week. Now, his left quad is an issue -- or tissue. It's pulled, the PC term for torn. An MRI administered late Saturday was intended to determine the degree of the tear.

The Mets left fielder was removed from the game on Saturday after running out a ground ball in the sixth inning. His quad has been balky before that, though.

Willie Randolph said, "He'll probably need a few days." If Alou needs more time and an assignment to the disabled list is necessary, the club may recall Carlos Gomez, the fleet Triple-A center fielder. Promoting Gomez was discussed the last time Alou's availability was in question.

Reyes a shorn thing: Less than 12 hours after Paul Lo Duca suggested that Jose Reyes' hitting streak had fallen victim to his remaining locks, the Mets shortstop was un-locked too. Reyes became the 24th player to be shorn, leaving only Aaron Sele with a full head of hair, and Sele promised he, too, would be shaven soon.

"I'm on my own timeline," Sele said.

Reyes said his trip to the in-house barber had nothing to do with his hitless game on Friday night. Lo Duca had suggested his teammate had lacked the karma necessary to extend his streak to 15 games, but added, "He'll come around. I mean, what would you rather have -- hair or hits?"

Whatever the motivation, Reyes opted for less hair and had his scalp exposed by a cut shorter than he had anticipated.

"I wanted a 1 1/2 [setting]," Reyes said. "I got zero."

Reyes said he had planned all along to become "one of the guys," but that he had "something to do" on Friday. His hair hasn't been so short, he said, in four or five years.

"It feels comfortable," Reyes said. "I might keep it."

Told of Reyes' decision, Willie Randolph was pleased.

"I'm sure he's cute," the manager said. Told he and Reyes now look more alike, Randolph said, "I'm better looking than he is."

Scott Schoeneweis, one of the first to be shorn in San Francisco on Tuesday night, now has more hair on his face than on his scalp. He was wearing a woolen ski cap in the clubhouse on Saturday and looking a tad ominous. The cap was necessary, he said, because of an air-conditioning vent directly over his locker.

Randolph noted that the Mets pitchers have done a better job holding runners and helping Lo Duca produce a remarkably high percentage of runners thrown out while attempting to steal. After throwing out Rickie Weeks in the first inning on Friday, Lo Duca had nailed 10 of 17 would-be base stealers, a .625 percentage. A .350 percentage is considered good.

This and that: Pedro Feliciano faced one batter, pinch-hitter Corey Hart, on Friday night, striking him out. He now has pitched 15 2/3 innings scoreless innings, a span that began last season. ... The Elias Sports Bureau has determined that Reyes, who produced his 50th and 51st hits in the Mets' 33rd game on Wednesday in San Francisco, notched 50 hits earlier than any player in Mets history. It took Cleon Jones 35 games to reach the 50-hit mark in 1969. ... The 12 runs scored by the Brewers on Saturday are the most the Mets have allowed this season. ... The Mets have hit six home runs in their last three games. ... David Newhan was hitless in 13 at-bats before he hit a pinch-hit home run on Saturday.

This date in Mets history -- May 13: Remnants of the largest night-game crowd in the history of Shea Stadium, 56,658, saw the Mets lose, 5-4, to the Giants in a game begun on this date in 1966. Jim Davenport's home run off Dave Eilers, in his fifth inning of relief, decided the four-hour, 27-minute game. Willie Mays had tied the score in the eighth inning. ... A single by Ernie Banks with two out in the eighth inning was the lone hit allowed by Gary Gentry in the fifth one-hitter in club history and the second of three the Mets pitched in 28 days in 1970. Nolan Ryan pitched one against the Phillies on April 18, and Tom Seaver pitched one against the Phillies two days after Gentry's.

The great Juan Marichal beat the Mets 26 times and lost only eight times, including a game at Shea on this date in 1972. Buzz Capra (eight innings) and Tug McGraw combined on a three-hitter. Capra drove in the game's lone run in the second inning. ... Two years ago, Cliff Floyd hit two home runs against Jason Marquis, as Tom Glavine, Roberto Hernandez and Braden Looper combined on a five-hitter in the Mets' 2-0 victory against the Cardinals at Shea.

Also on this date in 1990, the Dodgers traded Randolph to the A's for Stan Javier. Randolph batted .304 with three RBIs in the A's eight postseason games.

Coming up: Two intriguing left-handed starters oppose each other Sunday afternoon at Shea -- unbeaten Chris Capuano for the Brewers and variable Oliver Perez for the Mets. First pitch is schedueld for 1:10 p.m. ET.