Grandyman can’t! Curtis sits with hip pain
Another day, another Mets injury. Outfielder Curtis Granderson sat out the Mets' 7-1 loss to Phillies Sunday at Citi Field because of a right hip muscle strain. Granderson isn't sure how he suffered the injury. He started feeling the discomfort and pain in his hip Saturday night, after he played nine innings in center field during a 7-6 victory. He arrived at the ballpark Sunday morning and informed Terry Collins he would be unable to start the series finale against Philadelphia.
“When I came in, the discomfort level was high,” Granderson said. “I knew today was going to be very difficult.”
Collins initially thought Granderson would be available off the bench. But when the 36-year-old tried to take swings and get warm, he was experiencing too much pain. Granderson and the Mets trainers then decided to “shut everything down” for the day.
“They did some stretching on it to see if certain movements were going to bother it. Nothing over the top, but there were some parts that provided some discomfort when I tried to swing and finish a swing, that's where I noticed it a little bit,” Granderson said. “Tried to do some active warmup to see if I would be able to run, things like that. Just little things (still hurt), but part of that could have been because I wasn't all the way warm today. I was trying to get there and didn’t have the amount of time like I normally would to get there, and the first couple (exercises) were sore.”
Granderson said the doctors labeled him “day to day.” The Mets start a series at the Nationals on Monday night. Granderson is hopeful he can return to the lineup for the opener at Washington.
“They said basically it’s going to be how you feel coming into the ballpark each day, to see how it is,” Granderson said of the doctors after Sunday's game. “So we’ll see after this flight, get some rest and hopefully (feel) better tomorrow than we are today.”
Granderson was flummoxed by the cause of the injury. He even went back on video to look at plays in which he might have tweaked the hip.
“But nothing that jumped out that really reminded me or that I grimaced on,” he said.
Granderson — who is hitting .289 with a .999 OPS since May 1 — underwent treatment Sunday, including extra icing and anti-inflammatory medicine.
“It was kind of weird. I was going through the game (Saturday), and everything felt fine. Noticed a little something, but nothing too crazy,” Granderson said. “Finished the game. Went and chatted with the staff afterward, got a stretch, got in the cold tub like I normally do. Got home, and things got a little bit worse from there, for whatever reason. Not sure why.”
CES STRUGGLES
After going 0-for-3 with a walk in Sunday’s loss, Yoenis Cespedes is hitting just .138 with no extra-base hits and no RBI in his last seven games.
“Just tells you he’s human,” Collins said of his Cuban slugger. “Every guy that’s ever played this game is going to go through a bad streak, and he is right now.”