The worst happened to the New York Mets last night in The World Baseball Classic. Closer Edwin Diaz went down with a gruesome injury while celebrating a Puerto Rico win with his teammates and had to be helped off.
Later last night, the Mets tweeted that it is a right knee injury for Diaz. Also, he is set to undergo imaging on it today, and that they will have more information in the future. Andy Martino of SNY reported that “the preliminary x-rays did not give a full diagnosis.”
Worst-case scenario for the Mets with Edwin Diaz in WBC:
Nothing worse could have possibly come for the Mets from The World Baseball Classic than an injury to Diaz.