Jose Reyes was aching with left rib-cage tightness. But he wanted to play. Manager Terry Collins stared him down.
“He said, ‘I think I’ll be OK.’ I said, ‘You haven’t been paying attention to what’s been going on here. Every time we play somebody that’s got a tweak, we end up losing him for three weeks,” Collins said. “So we didn’t play him today.”
So, one day after recording his 2,000th career hit, Reyes sat. He was initially in the lineup, but was replaced by Matt Reynolds (who homered) at short. Collins explained Reyes broke a rib a few years back while in Toronto, and while he occasionally feels the effects, all indications are he will play Tuesday.