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Eric Young Jr.'s two-run homer off Luis Mendoza ended the game after David Wright left an inning earlier with a hamstring injury.
From start to end, it was an unsettling Friday for the Mets.
It started in the morning, when two relief pitchers received bad medical news. It continued into their game against the Kansas City Royals, one of baseball's hottest teams, when the Mets' revamped lineup went silent and the bullpen faltered, wasting a good start from Dillon Gee.
Things reached a nadir, finally, in the 10th inning, when third baseman David Wright, the team's captain and best player, limped extremely carefully into the Mets' dugout while grabbing at his right hamstring.
At that point, the game's result ceased to matter — for the record, the Mets won, 4-2, when Eric Young Jr. hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the 11th inning at Citi Field.
Wright will have a magnetic resonance imaging exam Saturday morning, but Collins acknowledged that things did not look promising. If Wright's injury is fairly serious, it will represent a gigantic problem for the Mets, who have had trouble scoring runs anyway.
Before the game, Manager Terry Collins shuffled his lineup, moving Daniel Murphy to fifth, Ike Davis to seventh and Juan Lagares to second, specifically to try to address the problem.
Wright started the game batting .302 with 15 home runs and 52 runs batted in and promptly reiterated his worth. In the first inning, he drilled a two-run homer to left field to give the Mets an early lead against the Royals, who came to Citi Field carrying a nine-game winning streak. It was Wright's 220th homer, which tied him with Mike Piazza for second on the club's career list.
Hours later, when the game was tied, 2-2, Wright led off the 10th inning and drilled a grounder into the shortstop hole. He sprinted down the line, swerving to avoid an errant throw, but as the ball rattled around he hobbled to a stop, holding the back of his right leg, before coming to a rest with his hands on his knees.
Wright, who has battled a right hamstring problem for a week or so — something he has been reluctant to talk about — promptly left the game, walking gingerly into the Mets' clubhouse. The night took an even weirder turn when Zack Wheeler, the prized pitching prospect, pinch-ran for Wright.
The Mets celebrated on the field an inning later when Young ripped a two-run homer off Luis Mendoza to end the game. But the jubilation at home seemed justifiably more subdued than the average game-winning celebration.
Earlier, Gee brought some steadiness to the up-and-down day, giving up one run over seven-plus innings, allowing just three hits and two walks while striking out four batters.
But as the Mets carried a 2-1 lead into the ninth, their bullpen could not finish the job. It was a meltdown that could have been predicted hours earlier, when two key relief pitchers were sidelined.
Josh Edgin, a 26-year-old left-hander, was placed on the 15-day disabled list after an M.R.I. revealed a hairline fracture in the eighth rib on his left side. Edgin was told he could miss four to six weeks, though he will be re-evaluated next week.
It was a blow to the player and the club, as Edgin appeared be finding the form that made him so effective late last season. After being recalled a month and a half ago from Class AAA, he made 23 appearances, producing a 0.93 earned run average in 191/3 innings.
Edgin was not sure how the injury occurred. He began to feel pain around his rib cage last month, but pitched through it. When the pain intensified this week, he thought it might be an intercostal muscle strain. But the M.R.I. showed otherwise.
Before the game, the Mets called up Pedro Feliciano, the 36-year-old left-hander whose last major league appearance came 34 months ago, during his last stint with the team.
Bobby Parnell, who has 22 saves, has been feeling stiffness around his neck muscles since Thursday morning. He visited team doctors on Friday and was given medication to battle the soreness. He will be re-examined on Monday.
Parnell's absence became glaring when David Aardsma, handed the closer's job for the night, botched the save chance. He gave up a leadoff double to Miguel Tejada and walked Alcides Escobar. The two advanced to second and third on Elliot Johnson's sacrifice bunt. The Mets intentionally walked Billy Butler, loading the bases. Lorenzo Cain lined a sacrifice fly to center field to tie the score. Feliciano entered to try to preserve the tie and, after showing an 85 mile-per-hour fastball, coaxed Alex Gordon into hitting a groundout on a 73 m.p.h. changeup.
Carlos Torres, listed as Saturday's starter for the Mets, came on to pitch the next two innings, yet another strange development that spoke to the suddenly dire circumstances the Mets faced.
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