Steven Matz is going on the injured list after all. It just took the team until the entire six-game road was over, when they were playing a man short, to make that decision.
The Mets announced Matz will be shelved with radial nerve discomfort, retroactive to May 5, and are calling up Dominic Smith. Smith was sent down to Triple-A Syracuse at the beginning of the road trip, a move that came as a surprise considering how well he had performed as a reserve.