A night’s sleep and the homecoming after a cross-country flight did little to soothe Terry Collins’ feelings about the “slide” that made Chase Utley even more notorious among the Mets and their angry fans.
“I was pretty shaken up by it,” Collins said Sunday afternoon, “because I thought it was something that didn’t need to happen.”
The Dodgers’ Utley crashed into Ruben Tejada to try to break up a double play in Game 2 of the division series Saturday night and left Tejada with a broken leg. Utley has clashed with the Mets before – including slamming into Tejada at second in 2010 – and while Collins seemingly has regard for Utley’s hard-nosed style, he also called this current slide “late” and seemed to suggest there should be discipline for the play.