He just overcame both back spasms and a case of strep throat that caused him to lose 10 pounds, and now he reassumes the Mets’ starting shortstop job thanks to a teammate’s traumatic injury.
In the life of Wilmer Flores? Sounds like just another week at the ballpark.
Flores’ ultra-dramatic 2015 absorbs its next plot twist in Monday night’s National League Division Series Game 3 at Citi Field, the first ever postseason contest at the Mets’ highly regarded ballpark. The Mets and Dodgers are tied at a game apiece in the wake of Chase Utley’s controversial Game 2 take-out slide of Ruben Tejada, which resulted in a two-game ban, a fractured right fibula for the Mets’ shortstop and continued a seventh-inning Dodgers rally en route to a 5-2 Mets loss at Dodger Stadium.