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It was the New York Mets' billionaire owner
Steve Cohen, bemoaning the latest addition to their injury list
after Johneshwy Fargas collided with the center field wall in
the fourth inning of Monday's 3-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies.
Fargas, who sustained a left AC joint sprain and had to leave
the game, was the fourth center fielder on the team to suffer an
injury this month alone. Overall, the Mets have more than a
dozen players on their injured list.
"It's challenging, yes, losing another guy in the middle of the
game," manager Luis Rojas told reporters after the game. "We ran
out of players there."
The Mets rode a seven-game winning streak earlier this month but
have lost seven of their last 10 since.
With the Mets trailing by three runs going into the bottom of
the seventh, the restricted crowd of 8,438 at Citi Field briefly
got its hopes up as James McCann - playing at first base for the
first time in his professional career to fill in for an injured
Pete Alonso - launched a 398-foot solo homer.
Pinch hitter Brandon Drury followed that up with another home
run in the ninth but the Rockies pitcher struck out McCann to
seal the win.
Rojas, who told reporters Fargas would undergo tests on Tuesday,
said the team would not be deterred.
"We have the right attitude toward anything that comes our way,"
he said. "We’ll have a team out there tomorrow."
The Mets play the Rockies again on Tuesday in the second of a
four-game home series, before hosting the Atlanta Braves for
three games.
(Reporting by Amy Tennery; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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