LOS ANGELES — The Mets can never seem to escape the Los Angeles Dodgers with a full, healthy team.

Francisco Lindor was out of the lineup Thursday for the series finale with a broken toe. The star shortstop and leadoff hitter was hit by a slider from right-hander Tony Gonsolin in the first inning of Wednesday night’s 6-1 win, with the pitch breaking his right pinky toe. He played the rest of the game and insisted to manager Carlos Mendoza that he would be fine to play Thursday, but the skipper decided to sit him after X-rays showed a fracture.

“It’s not a surgical thing,” Lindor said Thursday morning at Dodger Stadium. “It’s just a matter of tolerating the pain.”

A key leader in the lineup, on the field and in the clubhouse, Lindor was in considerable pain Wednesday night, but woke up T

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