PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Michael Conforto received a late-night phone call from New York Mets manager Mickey Callaway, who asked whether he wanted to fill an open spot as Friday's designated hitter.
"Absolutely," Conforto recalled responding. "I wasn't going to say no."
In his first big league game action since surgery Sept. 6 to repair a tear in the posterior capsule in his left shoulder, Conforto went 1 for 4 in a 5-1 loss to St. Louis.
"It's a good way for me to kind of dip my toe into it and just focus on hitting.