Steven Matz's lat muscle tear is just the latest injury to hit the Mets this season.Now we know why the Mets don’t want to call up Michael Conforto. He’ll only get hurt.
The latest Met injury that threatens to torpedo their season — Steven Matz somehow tearing his lat muscle either before, during or after dominating the Dodgers with consistent 92-95 mph stuff over six shutout innings last Sunday — is, without doubt, the most maddening of all for this snakebit organization. How does this happen? Tom Seaver never had a lat injury. Jerry Koosman never had a lat injury. Doc Gooden, Ron Darling, Bobby Ojeda or even Fat Sid Fernandez never had a lat injury and none of them were on innings and…
