WASHINGTON -- In the hours following Friday night’s Mets win over the Nationals, Edwin Díaz stood by his locker receiving condolences from teammates and others. Díaz learned during the game that his grandfather had passed away in Puerto Rico. Immediately, he made plans to fly home to be with his family.

“It’s tough,” manager Buck Showalter said. “He’s close to his grandfather, and it happened very quickly.”

Saturday, the Mets officially placed Díaz on the bereavement list, which requires a minimum stay of three days and a maximum of seven (the team recalled David Peterson from the taxi squad to replace him). Showalter said he expected Díaz to rejoin the team Monday in Philadelphia and be active on Tuesday, meaning he will miss three total games.

With Díaz gone, here’s a look at the Mets’ closing options:

Seth Lugo
Lugo served as the eighth-inning setup man in each of the Mets’ first two games. But because he appeared in both of those wins, Lugo was unlikely to be available for Saturday’s game against the Nationals. It’s rare to see any reliever throw in three straight games this early in the season, and Lugo has never done it at any point in his career. It’s simply not how the Mets like to deploy him.

But if the team faces a save situation on Sunday in Washington or Monday in Philadelphia, there’s a decent chance that Lugo will get the call.

Adam Ottavino
Outside of Díaz, no Mets reliever boasts more closing experience than Ottavino, who threw a perfect seventh inning on Opening Day. While Showalter chose not to reveal his thoughts on a backup closer, he indicated that he did have one pitcher in mind. Ottavino makes sense as that pitcher, given his 30 career saves and sharp current form. During his Opening Day outing, Ottavino generated three whiffs on nine total swings.

Trevor May
The Mets’ most frequent fill-in closer last season, May saved four games on nights when Díaz was unavailable. But Showalter deployed him in the sixth inning on Opening Day -- an inning earlier than Ottavino, suggesting where the two stand in the current bullpen pecking order. May also served up a booming home run to Juan Soto in that one, perhaps giving Showalter more reason to lean toward Ottavino at the moment.

Joely Rodríguez/Chasen Shreve
Neither of the Mets’ bullpen lefties saw action in the first two games, but that was an aberration against a Nats team featuring one of the sport’s most potent lefty hitters. Should Soto come to the plate in a key spot in the ninth, Showalter -- a manager who tends to rule out nothing strategically -- is liable to call on either Rodríguez or Shreve. The latter made the team following an excellent spring, in which he retired 12 of the 13 batters he faced (six via strikeout).