“Well,” you said to yourself with a sigh a couple hours ago as you prepared to turn on today’s Mets-Phillies game, “things have been going pretty poorly, but it can’t get much worse, can it?”
Things got even worse for the Mets in the final game of this weekend’s Phillies series, as trade deadline acquisition Javier Báez exited the game after failing to run out a ground ball after a swing in the fifth inning. The team later revealed that the shortstop was dealing with “left hip tightness.