David Wright was admitted to the Hospital of Special Surgery after getting drilled in the head by a fastball from Matt Cain. He has been diagnosed with post-concussion (which means he had a concussion in the first place), but has not been put on the disabled list.
I know the Mets trainers and medical staff have been through a lot in the past few months, but in case they don’t know what they should do with Wright, here’s a little reminder of recent concussions…
Scary stuff.
David Wright was just hit in the helmet by a 93 mph fastball from Matt Cain in the 4th inning.
Wright was down 0-2 as Bengie Molina called for the fourth straight fastball from Cain. It obviously got away and nailed Wright on the left side of his helmet, near the temple, roughly where the brim of the helmet connects to the main body.
He went down in a heap as soon as it happened and only rolled over once the trainers got out to him.
The television cameras showed Wright saying, “I’m all right,” to trainer Ray Ramirez before they got him to his feet. He walked off the field under his own power, held on the arm by Ramirez.
He obviously left the game, replaced by Fernando Tatis.
I was at Friday night’s Mets game at Citi Field and snapped a few grainy photos of the new additions around Citi Field. Take a look…
The new video board in the RF corner…
The new banners on the LF wall…
The new photos viewed from the Field Level…
The Mets got runs from an Angel Pagan solo home run in the first inning, a Jeff Francoeur double in the fourth and a Gary Sheffield sac-fly in the sixth to compile their three runs.
Still, the star of the game was Parnell, who looked absolutely dominant out there. He pumped mostly fastballs by the slightly anemic Giants bats.
From my seats out in right-centerfield, I had an awesome view of the game as I was perched out in “The Piazza.” 
Too bad they’re still 9.5 games out of the Wild Card.
Citi Field will echo Shea Stadium on Nov. 4, 2009. That will be the date that Citi Field plays host to the New York Sentinels of the United Football League.
The game hasn’t officially been agreed to, but “there’s been a handshake,” according to Sentinels owner Bill Mayer.
The Sentinels will, as of right now, play one game in Citi Field, against the Las Vegas team, the Locomotives.
I wonder how they’re going to configure the stadium so it will fit a field. Those sort of things always interest me.
David Wright, 8/12: 3-5, 2 R, K
AVG: .325 (Change from previous game: +.003, Change from Game 81: -.001)
OBP: .415 (Change from previous game: +.001, Change from Game 81: +.001)
SLG: .468 (Change from previous game: +.002, Change from Game 81: -.002)
When Bobby Parnell made his first major league start against the Padres last week, he was help to a 60-75 pitch limit. Thanks to two long frames, he only lasted 2 1-3 innings on the mound before reaching his cap.
As Parnell takes the mound tonight against Barry Zito and the San Francisco Giants, he’s been allotted about 85 pitches.
Parnell was likely going to winter ball as a starter, reports Adam Rubin, so this experiment was going to happen sooner or later.
“I felt good,” Parnell told the Daily News. “I feel like I'm in condition. My arm strength was good, but obviously it's going to take a little while to keep building it up. I think we're just going to take gradual steps and build it up slowly.”
From the Mets…
FLUSHING, N.Y., August 12, 2009 - The New York Mets today announced they will honor their National League heritage by wearing throwback uniforms inspired by the turn of the century New York Giants uniforms when they play the San Francisco Giants August 14-16 at Citi Field.
The cream-colored jerseys feature an oversized blue "NY" on the front, blue and orange piping on the sleeves and a Mr. Met patch on the right sleeve.
Mets Amazin' Memorabilia will auction off the jerseys to benefit the Mets Foundation on www.mets.com/gameused.
I dig it.
The New York Mets are currently 53-61, a .465 winning percentage. They’ve dropped seven of their last 10 and 10 of their last 14.
The team currently last in the NL East, the Washington Nationals, are 40-74, a .351 winning percentage. But they’re won eight of their last 10 games.
So with the basic Excel skills I know, I wanted to see if the Mets could end up in last place in 2009.
Answer: It’s possible (maybe if the season never ended).
Here’s the two teams winning percentages on a graph, with an average trendline. (Basic trendline rules: trendline going up = winning more games of late, trendline going down = winning less games as of late.)
Taking a very rudimentary approach to extrapolating this out, I turned to Photoshop and traced the trendlines out, so you could see what would eventually happen if both teams stay on their respective paths.
I’m not sure if this is possible in the games left for the 2009 season, but if they just kept playing baseball until next March, it would happen.
The Mets can stay out of the basement with a few more wins here or there, but if they don’t veer off their current path, the Nationals may have a change to leap-frog them into fourth place.
Scary, isn’t it?
“It's a big, big boost for us in going forward.”
